Species Heterodoxus ancoratus Kéler, 1971

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• Heterodoxus ancoratus 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 [53].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC 1497/6 ♂, Mt Lindesay foothills, QLD.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 1497/6 ♀; ANIC 1497/7 2♂ ♀; ANIC 1513/22 3♂; BMNH 1496/57 ♂ ♀; BMNH 1496/58 ♂ ♀; BMNH 1497/8 ♂; BMNH 1513/23 ♂; BMNH 1513/24 ♂; BMNH 1513/24 ♂.

  Type host:

   Macropus parryi Bennett, 1835 [MACROPODIDAE]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Macropus parryi (Bennett, 1835) [MACROPODIDAE] Whiptail Wallaby), sanguinivore.

General References

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

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