Family LISTROPHORIDAE Mégnin & Trouessart, 1884

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• Listrophorinae Mégnin, P. & Trouessart, E.L. 1884. Les Sarcoptides plumicoles. Révision du groupe des Analgesinae, et description des espèces et genres nouveaux de la collection du Musée d'Angers. Journal de Micrographie 8: 92-101.

Introduction

The family Listrophoridae includes 21 genera and over 150 species world-wide, all of which are parasites in the hair of mammalian hosts (OConnor 2009). The world fauna was reviewed by Bochkov (2010). The Australian fauna consists of only two species, both found on introduced hosts (hare, rabbit, cat) (Domrow 1992). Listrophoridae have not been found on any species of Australian native mammal. Derrick et al. (1939), reported an unidentified species of Listrophoridae on a bandicoot, but that record has not been confirmed.

General References

Bochkov, A.V. 2010. A review of mammal-associated Psoroptidia (Acariformes: Astigmata). Acarina. Russian Journal of Acarology 18: 99–260

Derrick, E.H., Smith, D.J.W., Brown, H.E. & Freeman, M. 1939. The role of the bandicoot in the epidemiology of 'Q' fever : a preliminary study. Medical Journal of Australia 1: 150-155

Domrow, R. 1992. Acari Astigmata (excluding feather mites) parasitic on Australian vertebrates: an annotated checklist, keys and bibliography. Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 1459-1606

OConnor, B.M. 2009. Cohort Astigmatina. pp. 565–657 in Krantz, G.W. & Walter, D.E. (eds). A Manual of Acarology. Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press Third edition, 807 pp.

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