Species Heterodoxus calabyi Kéler, 1971

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• Heterodoxus calabyi 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 [54].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC 1496/56 ♂, Gorge Creek, Bonalbo, NSW.
  Paratype(s) BMNH 1496/35 ♂ ♀; BMNH 1509/9 ♂; BMNH 1509/11 ♂ ♀; BMNH 1513/10 ♂ ♀; BMNH 1513/12 ♂ ♀; BMNH 1518/9 2♂ ♀; USNM 1513 8♂ ♀ (total number of paratypes is 16♂ 17♀); ANIC 1496/56 ♀; ANIC 1509/10 ♂ ♀; ANIC 1513/9 ♂ ♀; ANIC 1513/11 2♀; ANIC 1513/13 ♂ ♀; ANIC 1518/7 ♂ ♀; ANIC 1518/8 ♂ ♀; ANIC 1518/10 ♀.

  Type host:

   Macropus dorsalis (Gray, 1837) [MACROPODIDAE]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Macropus dorsalis (Gray, 1837) [MACROPODIDAE] Black-striped Wallaby; Macropus eugenii (Desmarest, 1817) [MACROPODIDAE] Tammar 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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