Species Heterodoxus ualabati Plomley, 1940

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• Heterodoxus ualabati Plomley, N.J.B. 1940. Notes on the systematics of two species of Heterodoxus (Mallophaga, Boopidae). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1939: 19-26 [3rd June 1940] [21].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC ♂ (no numbers on slides, presumably this specimen is NJBP/1 ♂ originally in SPHTM), VIC.
  Paralectotype(s); ANIC 5♂ (no numbers on slides, presumably these specimens are NJBP/2-5 5♂ orginally in SPHTM).

  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 [66].

  Type host:

   Wallabia bicolor (Desmarest, 1804) [MACROPODIDAE]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), 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), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Wallabia bicolor (Desmarest, 1804) [MACROPODIDAE] Swamp Wallaby), 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)

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