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Species Pygiopsylla phiola Smit, 1979

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Species Pygiopsylla phiola Smit, 1979

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Introduced to New Zealand.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

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), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales
    • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Isoodon macrourus (Gould, 1842) [PERAMELIDAE] Northern Brown Bandicoot; Perameles nasuta Geoffroy, 1804 [PERAMELIDAE] Long-nosed Bandicoot; Echymipera rufescens (Peters & Doria, 1875) [PERORYCTIDAE] Rufous Spiny Bandicoot; Hydromys chrysogaster Geoffroy, 1804 [MURIDAE] Water-rat; Melomys burtoni (Ramsay, 1887) [MURIDAE] Grassland Melomys; Melomys sp. [MURIDAE]; Rattus sordidus (Gould, 1858) [MURIDAE] Canefield Rat; Rattus tunneyi (Thomas, 1904) [MURIDAE] Pale Field-rat; Uromys caudimaculatus (Krefft, 1867) [MURIDAE] Giant White-tailed Rat), sanguinivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Preferred hosts probably murine rodents.

 

General References

Hilgendorf, F.W. 1917. Kermadec Island fleas. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 49: 428 [428] (misidentified Pygiopsylla phiola as Pysgiopsylla (sic) hilli)

Smit, F.G.A.M. 1965. Siphonaptera of New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Zoology 7: 1-50 [26] (misidentified Pygiopsylla phiola as Pygiopsylla hoplia)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
12-Feb-2010 (import)