Odontacarus australiensis (Hirst, 1925)

Leeuwenhoekia australiensis Hirst, 1925: 150, figs. 1–3; Womersley & Heaslip 1943: 141, pl. XII (9); Thor & Willmann 1947: 323, fig. 384.

Leeuwenhoekia australiense: Gunther, 1939: 95, figs. 35, 38, 40.

Acomatacarus australiensis: Gunther 1952: 39; Radford 1954: 268.

Acomatacarus (Acomatacarus) australiensis: Wharton & Fuller 1952: 97 .

Odontacarus (Leogonius) australiensis: Vercammen-Grandjean 1968b: 121 .

Odontacarus australiensis: Goff & Durden 1987: 211 .

Type deposition. BMNH 1927.1.5.10 (lectotype) .

Type data. Ex man, Australia, Sydney, Ashfield .

Hosts. RODENTIA: Muridae gen. sp.; PRIMATES: Homo sapiens; AVES: Ailuroedus melanocephalus, Casuarius casuarius, Chalcophaps stephani, Chlamydera cerviniventris, Colluricincla megarhyncha, Erythropitta macklotii, Pachycephala sp., Paradisaea minor, Pitohui kirhocephalus, Ptilorrhoa caerulescens, Tanysiptera galatea .

Distribution. Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea.

Remarks. According to the slide labels, the lectotype was designated by Vercammen-Grandjean in 1971; that act has not been published.