Species Heterodoxus octoseriatus Kéler, 1971

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• Heterodoxus octoseriatus 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 [60].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC 1496/4 ♂, Gorge Creek, Bonalbo, NSW.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 1496/4 2♀; BMNH 1497/1 2♂ ♀; ANIC 1496/5 ♂ 2♀; ANIC 1505/7 2♀; BMNH 505/5 ♂; BMNH 505/6 ♀; BMNH 505/5 ♂; BMNH 1505/6 ♀.

  Type host:

   Petrogale penicillata (Gray, 1825) [MACROPODIDAE]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Mulga Lands (ML), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Petrogale penicillata (Gray, 1825) [MACROPODIDAE] Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby; 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. & Briscoe, D.A. 1991. Genetic divergence in Heterodoxus octoseriatus (Phthiraptera). International Journal for Parasitology 21: 479-482 (genetics)

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)

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 (taxonomy, host associations)

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