Species Heterodoxus ampullatus Kéler, 1971

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• Heterodoxus ampullatus Kéler, S. von 1971. A revision of the Australasian Boopiidae (Insecta: Phthiraptera) with notes on the Trimenoponidae. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 6: 3-126 [52].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC 1512/43 ♂, Jenolan Caves, NSW.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 1512/43 2♀; ANIC 1512/44 ♂ 2♀; BMNH 1512/43–44 (unknown number of specimens probably 10♂ 2♀).

  Type host:

   Petrogale penicillata (Gray, 1825) [MACROPODIDAE]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: 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), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), 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

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Petrogale penicillata (Gray, 1825) [MACROPODIDAE] Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby), sanguinivore.

General References

Barker, S.C. 1991. Evolution of host-parasite associations among species of lice and rock-wallabies: coevolution? (J.F.A. Sprent Prize Lecture, August 1990). International Journal for Parasitology 21: 497-501 (evolution of host associations)

Barker, S.C. 1991. Phylogeny of the Heterodoxus octoseriatus group (Phthiraptera: Boopiidae) from rock-wallabies (Marsupialia: Petrogale). Systematic Parasitology 19: 17-24 (phylogeny-morphological)

Barker, S.C. & Close, R.L. 1990. Zoogeography and host associations of the Heterodoxus octoseriatus group and H. ampullatus (Phthiraptera: Boopiidae) from rock-wallabies (Marsupialia: Petrogale). International Journal for Parasitology 20: 1081-1087 (zoogeography, host associations)

Clay, T. 1981. A report on a collection of lice (Boopidae: Phthiraptera) on Petrogale (rock wallabies). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 105: 65-78 (taxonomy, host associations)

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