Species Heterodoxus longitarsus (Piaget, 1880)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Menopon longitarsus Piaget, E. 1880. Les Pédiculines. Essai Monographique. Leide : E.J. Brill xxxix 714 pp. pls 1-56. [504].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 426b ♂ (Piaget Collection), Rotterdam Zoo, Rotterdam.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 425 (Piaget Collection); BMNH 426a (Piaget Collection); BMNH 427 2♂ 3♀ (Piaget Collection); RMNH 426b 426b 2♀ (Piaget Collection).

  Type host:

   Macropus giganteus Shaw, 1790 [MACROPODIDAE] (but probably an unnatural host, see <8010>)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Macropus rufus (Desmarest, 1822) [MACROPODIDAE] Red Kangaroo; Macropus rufogriseus (Desmarest, 1817) [MACROPODIDAE] Red-necked Wallaby), sanguinivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Host status of Red Kangaroo queried by <8218>.

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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