Species Stephanocircus pectinipes Rothschild, 1915

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stephanocircus pectinipes Rothschild, N.C. 1915. Stephanocircus pectinipes sp. nov. The Entomologist 48: 25-26 [25].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Emerald, VIC.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 12♂ 38♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Smit, F.G.A.M. & Wright, A.M. 1978. A Catalogue of the Primary Type Specimens of Siphonaptera in the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum (Natural History) 71 pp. [36].

  Type host:

   Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse, 1839) [MURIDAE] (as Epimys assimilis)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), 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), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse, 1839) [MURIDAE] Bush Rat; Rattus lutreolus (J.E. Gray, 1841) [MURIDAE] Swamp Rat; Rattus rattus (Linnaeus, 1758) [MURIDAE] Black Rat; Mastacomys fuscus Thomas, 1882 [MURIDAE] Broad-toothed Rat; Pseudomys higginsi (Trouessart, 1897) [MURIDAE] Long-tailed Mouse), sanguinivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Closely associated with native rodents of the genus Rattus.

 

General References

Oudemans, A.C. 1909. Neue Ansichten über die Morphologie des Flohkopfes, sowie über die Ontogenie, Phylogenie und Systematik der Flöhe. Novitates Zoologicae 16: 133-158 [136] (misidentified Stephanocircus pectinipes as Stephanocircus simsoni )

Traub, R. & Dunnet, G.M. 1973. Revision of the Siphonapteran genus Stephanocircus Skuse, 1893 (Stephanocircidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 20: 41-128 [Date published 11/May/1973] [61] (distribution, hosts)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)