Species Macropophila biarcuata Kéler, 1971

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• Macropophila biarcuata 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 [45].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC 1496/49 ♂, Cougal, NSW.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 1496/49 2♀; ANIC 1496/48 4♀; BMNH 1496/47 2♀; USNM 1496/44 ♀; ANIC 1496/45 ♂; BMNH 1496/50 ♂ ♀; BMNH 1496/862 ♂ 2♀; BMNH 1505/50 ♀.

  Type host:

   Thylogale thetis (Lesson, 1827) [MACROPODIDAE]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: 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), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Thylogale stigmatica (Gould, 1860) [MACROPODIDAE] Red-legged Pademelon; Thylogale thetis (Lesson, 1827) [MACROPODIDAE] Red-necked Pademelon), sanguinivore.

Extra Ecological Information

The record from Thylogale stigmatica is of a single female louse (females have fewer taxonomic characters than males) and thus requires confirmation <8218>.

General References

Werneck, F.L. 1948. pp. 5–36 in Os Malófagos de Mammíferos. Parte I: Amblycera e Ischnocera (Philopteridae e parte de Trichodectidae). Revista brasileira de Biologia (Río de Janeiro). 243 pp. 431 figs. [24] (misidentified as Heterodoxus forcipatus Werneck, 1948)

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