Species Heterodoxus pygidialis (Mjöberg, 1919)

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• Dendrolagia pygidialis Mjöberg, E. 1919. Preliminary description of a new family and three new genera of Mallophaga. Entomologisk Tidskrift 40: 93-96 [94].

  Type data:

   Neotype ANIC 1505/92 ♂, Atherton, QLD.

  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 [61].

  Type host:

   Dendrolagus lumholtzi Collett, 1884 [MACROPODIDAE]

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): Dendrolagus lumholtzi Collett, 1884 [MACROPODIDAE] Lumholtz's Tree-kangaroo), 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)

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 [61] (as Heterodoxus pygidialis (Mjöberg, 1919))

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