Species Hoplopleura bidentata (Neumann, 1909)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Haematopinus bidentatus Neumann, L.G. 1909. Notes sur les pédiculidès. II. Archives de Parasitologie 13: 497-537 [515].

  Type data:

   Lectotype slide No. 18 ♂, Lake Torrens, South Australia.
  Paralectotype(s) 4♂ 5♀ (depository uncertain).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Kühn, H.-J. & Ludwig, H.W. 1967. Sucking lice of the genus Hoplopleura (Anoplura: Insecta) from Australian Muridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 13 9: 657-674 [672].

  Type host:

   Hydromys chrysogaster Geoffroy, 1804 (misidentified as Rattus rattus (lLinnaeus, 1758) in the original description)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), Stony Plains (STP), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Hydromys chrysogaster Geoffroy, 1804 [MURIDAE] Water-rat), sanguinivore.

General References

Durden, L.A. & Musser, G.G. 1994. The sucking lice (Insecta, Anoplura) of the world: a taxonomic checklist with records of mammalian hosts and geographical distributions. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 218: 1-90 (synonymy, distribution)

Kim, K.C. 1972. A new species of Hoplopleura (Anoplura: Hoplopleuridae) from an Australian rat. Pacific Insects 14: 675-678 (taxonomy)

Kühn, H.-J. & Ludwig, H.W. 1967. Sucking lice of the genus Hoplopleura (Anoplura: Insecta) from Australian Muridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 13 9: 657-674 (taxonomy)

Smales, L.R., Miller, A.K. & Obendorf, D.L. 1990. Parasites of the water rat, Hydromys chrysogaster, from Victoria and South Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 37(6): 657-663 (biology)

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