Species Hoplopleura irritans Kuhn & Ludwig, 1967

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• Hoplopleura irritans 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 [664].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC 8239 ♂, Olsen's Bridge, VIC.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 2380 ♂; whereabouts unknown 18♂ 20♀.

  Type host:

   Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse, 1839) (called Rattus assimilis in original description)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), 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), King (KIN), 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), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse, 1839) [MURIDAE] Bush Rat; Rattus lutreolus (J.E. Gray, 1841) [MURIDAE] Swamp Rat), sanguinivore.

General References

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

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