Species Heterodoxus macropus Le Souëf & Bullen, 1902

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• Heterodoxus macropus Le Souëf, S.A. & Bullen, H. 1902. Description of a mallophagous parasite from the kangaroo. Victorian Naturalist 18: 159 [159].

  Type data:

   Lectotype USNM 72299 ♂, VIC.
  Paralectotype(s) USNM ♂ 2♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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 [58].

  Type host:

   Wallabia bicolor (Desmarest, 1804) [MACROPODIDAE] (but may be an unnatural host, see von Kéler (1971))

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 agilis (Gould, 1842) [MACROPODIDAE] Agile Wallaby; Macropus giganteus Shaw, 1790 [MACROPODIDAE] Eastern Grey Kangaroo; Thylogale stigmatica (Gould, 1860) [MACROPODIDAE] Red-legged Pademelon; Wallabia bicolor (Desmarest, 1804) [MACROPODIDAE] Swamp Wallaby), sanguinivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Host status of Eastern Grey Kangaroo, Swamp Wallaby and Red-legged Pademelon queried (Barker in Palma & Barker, 1996).

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)

Barker, S.C. in Palma, R.L. & Barker, S.C. 1996. Phthiraptera. pp. 81-247, 333-361, 373-396 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 26. Psocoptera, Phthiraptera, Thysanoptera. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing xiii 418 pp.

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 (review)

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