Species Heterodoxus maynesi Clay, 1981

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• Heterodoxus maynesi 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 [71].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC RW152 ♂, Blue Mountain, 'Wandoo' Station, QLD.
  Paratype(s) ANIC RW147 ♂ ♀; ANIC RW147 ♂ ♀; ANIC RW148 ♂ 3♀; BMNH RW146 ♂ ♀; ANIC RW152 ♂ 5♀; ANIC RW153 2♀; ANIC RW155 ♂ 2♀; BMNH RW147 ♂ ♀; BMNH RW152 ♂; BMNH RW153 ♂.

  Type host:

   Petrogale inornata Gould, 1842 [MACROPODIDAE]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Petrogale herberti Thomas, 1926 [MACROPODIDAE] Herbert’s Rock-wallaby; Petrogale inornata Gould, 1842 [MACROPODIDAE] Unadorned 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. 1991. Taxonomic review of the Heterodoxus octoseriatus group (Phthiraptera: Boopiidae) from rock-wallabies with the description of three new species. Systematic Parasitology 19: 1-16 (taxonomy)

Barker, S.C., Briscoe, D.A., Close, R.L. & Dallas, P. 1991. Genetic variation in the Heterodoxus octoseriatus group (Phthiraptera): a test of Price's model of parasite evolution. International Journal for Parasitology 21: 555-563 (genetics)

Barker, S.C., Briscoe, D.A. & Close, R.L. 1992. Phylogeny inferred from allozymes in the Heterodoxus octoseriatus group of species (Phthiraptera: Boopiidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 40: 411-422 (phylogeny-molecular)

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 and host associations)

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