Species Ortholfersia macleayi (Leach, 1817)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Feronia macleayi Leach, W.E. 1817. On the genera and species of eproboscideous insects. Edinburgh : Neill & Co. 20 pp. [Date published September] [12].

  Type data:

   Holotype no sex, no host given, type apparently lost, "Australasia".
• Ortholfersia raveni Ferris, G.F. 1924. Report upon a collection of insect ectoparasites from Australian and Tasmanian mammals. (Diptera Pupipara. Siphonaptera). American Museum Novitates 110: 7 p. [Date published 21 April] [4-5].

  Type data:

   Holotype ♀ (-.x.1921, off "Macropus" sp., type not traceable in Stanford University), NSW, Glen Ferneigh (?Fernleigh).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Maa, T.C. 1962. Notes on the Hippoboscidae (Diptera), 1. Pacific Insects 4: 583-614 [Date published 10 October] [607-608]

Generic Combinations

• Ortholfersia macleayi (Leach, 1817). —
  Maa, T.C. 1962. Notes on the Hippoboscidae (Diptera), 1. Pacific Insects 4: 583-614 [Date published 10 October] [607-608]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: ectoparasitic (host(s): Macropus dorsalis (Gray, 1837) [MACROPODIDAE] Black-striped Wallaby (as Halmaturus dorsalis); Macropus giganteus Shaw, 1790 [MACROPODIDAE] Eastern Grey Kangaroo (as Macropus major); Thylogale thetis (Lesson, 1827) [MACROPODIDAE] Red-necked Pademelon; Macropus parryi (Bennett, 1835) [MACROPODIDAE] Whiptail Wallaby (as Protemnodon elegans Lambert); Macropus sp. [MACROPODIDAE] kangaroos and wallabies).

General References

Maa, T.C. 1962. Notes on the Hippoboscidae (Diptera), 1. Pacific Insects 4: 583-614 [Date published 10 October] [607-608]

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