Open AccessSPECIES OF OPHIONYSSUS MÉGNIN FROM AUSTRALIAN LIZARDS AND SNAKES (ACARI: DERMANYSSIDAE)
Author(s) -
Domrow Robert
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
australian journal of entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1440-6055
pISSN - 1326-6756
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1985.tb00213.x
Subject(s) - biology , lacertidae , zoology , elapidae , acari , ecology , sauria , lizard , venom
Four species of Ophionyssus have been taken from Australian lizards and snakes. New host‐records are given for O. scincorum Domrow et al. : Hemiergis decresiensis (Cuvier) (Scincidae) (South Australia); and for O. natricis (Gervais): Lacerta viridis (Laurenti) (Lacertidae), and Acanthophis antarcticus (Shaw and Nodder) and Pseudechis porphyriacus (Shaw) (Elapidae) (eastern Australia). O. ehmanni sp. n. is figured and described from Egernia striolata (Peters) (Scincidae) (South Australia). Neoliponyssus arnhemlandensis Womersley from Carlia fusca (Duméril and Bibron) (Scincidae) (Northern Territory) is restudied and newly combined with Ophionyssus.