Species Hoplopleura mastacomydis Kuhn & Ludwig, 1967

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• Hoplopleura mastacomydis 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 [667].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Mt Kate, TAS.
  Paratype(s) ANIC ♀; whereabouts unknown 7♂ 11♀.

  Type host:

   Mastacomys fuscus Thomas, 1822 (see Musser & Carleton (1993))

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Mastacomys fuscus Thomas, 1822 [MURIDAE] Broad-toothed 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)

Musser, G.G. & Carleton, M.D. 1993. Family Muridae. pp. 501-755 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D-A. M. (eds). Mammal species of the world: A taxonomic and geographic reference. Second Edition. Washington : Smithsonian Institute 1206 pp.

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