Species Herpetomonas muscarum Saville-Kent, 1881

Museums

Regional Maps

• Herpetomonas muscaedomesticae Burnett, 1851 [as Bodo muscae-domesticae].
• Herpetomonas muscarum Saville-Kent, W. 1880 [1881]. Manual of the Infusoria, including a description of all known flagellate, ciliated, and tentaculiferous Protozoa, British and foreign, and an account of the organisation and affinities of the sponges. London Vol. I 472 pp. [published in two parts, first in 1880, second in 1881] [replacement name].

Generic Combinations

• Cercomonas muscae-domesticae (Burnnet [Leidy]). —
  Stein, F. 1878. Der Organismus der Infusionsthiere. Leipzig : Engelmann.
• Bodo muscaedomesticae (Burnett, 1851) [as muscae-domesticae]. —
  Stein, F. 1878. Der Organismus der Infusionsthiere. Leipzig : Engelmann.
• Herpetomonas muscaedomesticae (Burnett, 1851) [as muscae-domesticae]. —
  Prowazek, S. 1904. Die Entwicklung von Herpetomonas, einen mit den Trypanosomen verwandten Flagellaten. Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde 20: 440-452

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Musca domestica Linnaeus, 1758 [MUSCIDAE] Common Housefly; Calliphora stygia (Fabricius, 1782) [CALLIPHORIDAE] Eastern Golden-haired Blowfly (syn. Pollenia stygia, C. villosa); Calliphora augur (Fabricius, 1775) [CALLIPHORIDAE] Lesser Brown Blowfly, Blue-bodied Blowfly (syn. C. oceaniae = Anastellorhina augur)).

Associated Fauna References

Johnston, T.H. 1916. A census of the endoparasites recorded as occurring in Queensland, arranged under their hosts. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 28: 31-79 (Calliphora stygia; Calliphora augur; Musca domestica)

History of changes