THE SUCKING LICE (INSECTA, ANOPLURA) OF THE WORLD: A TAXONOMIC CHECKLIST WITH RECORDS OF MAMMALIAN HOSTS AND GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTIONS
LANCE A. DURDEN Assistant Professor and Assistant Curator Institute of Arthropodology and Parasitology Georgia Southern University Statesboro, Georgia 30460 Research Associate, Department of Entomology Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560
GUY G. MUSSER Archbold Curator, Department of Mammalogy American Museum of Natural History
BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Number 218,90 pages, Issued January 19, 1994 Price: $8.75 a copy
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CONTENTS
Abstract 4 Introduction ...... 4 Materials and Procedures ...... 4 Acknowledgments ...... 6 Taxonomic changes made in this checklist ...... 6 Order Anoplura ...... 6 Family Echinophthiriidae ...... 6 Antarctophthirus ...... 6 Echinophthirius ...... 7 Latagophthirus ...... 8 Lepidophthirus ...... 8 Proechinophthirus ...... 8 Family Enderleinellidae ...... 8 Atopophthirus ...... 8 Enderleinellus ...... 9 Microphthirus ...... 13 Phthirunculus ...... 14 Werneckia ...... 14 Family Haematopinidae ...... 15 Haematopinus...... 15 Family Hamophthiriidae ...... 17 H amophthirius ...... 17 Family Hop1opleuridae ...... 18 Ancistroplax ...... 18 Haematopinoides ...... 18 Hoplopleura ...... 18 Paradoxophthirus ...... 36 Pterophthirus ...... 36 Schizophthirus ...... 37 Family Hybophthiridae ...... 38 Hybophthirus ...... 38 Family Linognathidae ...... 38 Linognathus ...... 38 Prolinognathus ...... 44 Solenopotes ...... 45 Family Microthoraciidae ...... 46 Microthoracius ...... 46 Family Neolinognathidae ...... 46 Neolinognathus ...... 46 Family Pecaroecidae ...... 47 Pecaroecus ...... 47 Family Pedicinidae ...... 47 Pedicinus ...... 47 Family Pediculidae ...... 50 Pediculus ...... 50 Family Polyplacidae ...... 51 Ctenophthirus ...... 51 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 3
Cuyana ...... 51 Docophthirus ...... 51 Eulinognathus ...... 52 Fahrenholzia ...... 54 Galeophthirus ...... 56 Haemodipsus ...... 56 Johnsonpthirus ...... 57 Lagidiophthirus ...... '.' ...... 58 Lemurpediculus ...... 58 Lemurphthirus ...... 58 Linognathoides ...... 59 Mirophthirus ...... 60 Neohaematopinus ...... '.' ...... 61 Phthirpediculus ...... 64 Polyp/ax ...... 64 Proenderleinellus ...... 75 Sathrax ...... 75 Scipio ...... 75 Typhlomyophthirus ...... 76 Family Pthiridae ...... 76 Pthirus ...... '...... 76 Family Ratemiidae ...... 76 Ratemia ...... 76 References ...... 77 Index to Anoplura Species ...... 82 4 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218
ABSTRACT A taxonomic listing of 532 species (plus six type locality; 6) known geographical distri nomina nuda) of sucking lice (Insecta, Ano bution of the louse species; 7) notes pertain plura) described through January 1993 is pre ing to other key taxonomic, host, or geo sented. Listings are arranged alphabetically graphical data for the louse species. Two according to family and genus. For each louse taxonomic changes are made in the checklist species, the following information is given: as follows: 1) Linognathus setosus bhatii Dut 1) author, date, and literature citation for the ta, 1988, is elevated to species rank as Li original description; 2) synonymies, if any; nognathus bhatii Dutta, 1988; 2) Neohae 3) type host mammal species and its taxo matopinus baibacinae Blagoveshtchensky, nomic affiliation; 4) principal host mammal 1965, is reassigned as Linognathoides bai species and their taxonomic affiliations; 5) bacinae (Blagoveshtchensky, 1965).
INTRODUCTION
Sucking lice (Insecta, Anoplura) are obli In our opinion, one vitally important as gate, permanent ectoparasites of eutherian pect of this work is the collaboration of an mammals. A world checklist of sucking lice anopluran systematist (Durden) with a mam has not been available since Ferris (1951) mal systematist (Musser). Our previous joint documented the 255 species then known from papers (Durden and Musser, 1991, 1992) have six recognized families and 39 genera. Many emphasized how important it is to correctly new taxa have been established since Ferris's identify to species the specimens representing publication with the current world total rec hosts, to indicate their appropriate catalog ognized here as 532 described valid species numbers in the published report (as discussed (plus six nomina nuda) assignable to 15 fam by Frey et aI., 1992, and Brooks, 1993, for ilies and 49 genera. During this century, the new parasite taxa), and to be able to inves number of recognized anopluran species has tigate cases of unusual host or geographical increased more than four-fold from 123 (Fer data for a particular louse taxon so that er ris, 1916), to 223 (Ferris, 1935),255 (Ferris, roneous host-parasite distribution records can 1951), 392 (Ludwig, 1968), 454 (Piotrowski, be identified. Suspect cases of this nature were 1973), 486 (Kim and Ludwig, 1978), 493 thoroughly researched until we felt comfort (Kim, 1988), "approximately 500" (Kim et able that inaccurate or erroneous records were ai. 1990) to the present figure of 532. How eliminated from the checklist. We feel that a ever, Kim and Ludwig (1978), Kim (1985), reliable synthesis of parasitology and mam and Kim et ai. (1986, 1990) have estimated malogy has been achieved. that the total number of anopluran species in the world, including those still undescribed, MATERIALS AND PROCEDURES is between 1000 and 1500. Also, some new taxa have been described in unpublished the CLASSIFICATION: The system of anopluran ses or dissertations but until these descrip classification and the synonymies in this tions are published the associated names are checklist are mostly accepted doctrines but, considered invalid under Article 9 (11) ofthe as with any classification, a few reflect per International Code of Zoological Nomencla sonal views. Family names and classification ture. These taxa are consequently excluded sequence follow Kim and Ludwig (1978). from this checklist despite adequate descrip Valid genera also follow Kim and Ludwig tive work by most of the authors. Significant (1978) for the most part. However, the genera theses of this kind include those by Moore Mirophthirus and Typhlomyophthirus as de (1967) for African Polyplax (Polyplacidae), scribed by Chin (1980), the genera John W€isser (1975) for Linognathus and Solen sonpthirus and Linognathodes as recognized opotes (Linognathidae), Richardson (1982) by Kim and Adler (1982) and Durden (1991a) for New Guinean Hoplopleura (Hoplopleu (so that Alenapthirus accepted by Kim and ridae), and Schick (1982) for Old World Eu Ludwig in 1978 is here recognized as a syn linognathus (Polyplacidae). onym of Johnsonpthirus as proposed by Kim 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 5 and Adler, 1982), and Paradoxophthirus as Stimie and van der Merwe (1968) but is a erected by Chin (1989) are listed as valid gen synonym of H. quadripertusus according to era within the family Polyplacidae. Also, the Meleney and Kim (1974) and Kim et ai. three Neotropical monotypic polyplacid gen (1986). A few species names for Linognathus era Cuyana, Galeophthirus, and Lagidi (Linognathidae), Pediculus (Pediculidae), and ophthirus are recognized here. Kim (1985) Polyplax(Polyplacidae) are based on very old also recognized Cuyana and Galeophthirus type material that was inadequately de but some comments should be made regard scribed and that has subsequently been lost ing the relationship of these three genera to so that nomina nuda status must be desig Eulinognathus in which they have sometimes nated. been placed. This is a heterogeneous assem FORMAT FOR SPECIES ENTRIES IN THE blage of Anoplura and it appears that at least CHECKLIST: Each louse species entry in the some of these lice are currently grouped to checklist is presented alphabetically in bold gether based on convergent characters rather type face under alphabetized family and ge than on phylogenetic principles (Johnson, nus headings (also in bold type). The au 1960; Ledger, 1980). This is apparent not thor(s) and date of description for the taxon, only from morphological grounds but also followed by the original literature citation are through the disjunct host and geographical then presented. On the next lines, synonyms distributions of these lice. Therefore, the ex (if any) are listed; citations for synonymies act taxonomic affiliations of these four genera are not included in the References section at may be subject to change. the end of the checklist because Ferris (1951) Lice are not named beyond the species lev and others have provided these. Following el in this checklist; very few Anoplura have the synonymic lists, the type host and then been named to subspecific rank and those the principal mammalian hosts are listed. The that have are often disputed. One important order and family(ies) to which these hosts exception represents the medically important belong are presented in parentheses; for di head and body lice of humans which, by cur podid and murid rodents (as interpreted by rently recognized morphological principles, Holden, 1993a, and Carleton and Musser, should be assigned subspecific status (Kim et 1984), subfamily status is also given. Host aI., 1986). These two lice are therefore both taxonomy follows that presented in the con included under the entry Pediculus humanus tributed chapters in Mammal Species of the in this checklist. The correct name for the World edited by Wilson and Reeder (1993), body louse is Pediculus humanus humanus the Mammals of the Indomalayan Region Linnaeus, 1758, while that for the head louse (Corbet and Hill, 1992), and a few other re is Pediculus humanus capitis De Geer, 1778. ports cited in the species accounts. As with Combinations such as Pediculus corporis, P. the lice, mammalian hosts are not listed be capitis, and others as sometimes used, for yond species (although a few anopluran type example in the medical literature, are taxo hosts were originally documented at the sub nomically incorrect (Ferris, 1935, 1951; species level). Muesebeck, 1953; Hemming, 1958; Kim et Currently accepted Latin names for host aI., 1986). mammals are listed to avoid invalid host SYNONYMIES AND NOMINA NUDA: Synon names as presented in many earlier publi ymies were not always easy to ascertain for cations on Anoplura. In ord€r to achieve this, this checklist largely because a synonymy ac synonymies for type or principal hosts given cepted by one authority may not be recog in the original descriptive papers for the An nized by a different authority. Where syn oplura were researched in detail, and where onymy is disputed, accompanying notes necessary host specimens were examined to discuss this for each species entry. The genera determine correct identifications. In each host Haematopinus (Haematopinidae) Linogna list, the generic name is spelled in full for the thus (Linognathidae), Pedicinus (Pedicini first-listed taxon in a genus but abbreviated dae), and Pediculus (Pediculidae) were the to a single letter for entries that immediately most difficult genera to review in this respect. follow. For example, Haematopinus palpebrae is a For each louse species entry the type lo synonym of H. eurysternus according to cality is presented next followed by the known 6 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 geographical distribution. Clearly, the amount Georgia, USA); Ke Chung Kim (Pennsylva of detail included for type localities varies nia State University, University Park, Penn according to the amount of information pro sylvania, USA); Robert E. Lewis (Iowa State vided by the author of the taxon or (occa University, Ames, Iowa, USA); Christopher sionally) by subsequent authors. Where pos H. C. Lyal (Natural History Museum, Lon sible, older names given for type localities don, UK); Jennifer M. Palmer (Natural His have been updated; also, attention is directed tory Museum, London, UK); Richard G. to place names that were difficult to interpret. Robbins (Armed Forces Pest Management Collective distributional records for each Board, Forest Glen, Washington, D.C.); Da louse species were collated through exhaus vid F. Schmidt (National Museum of Natural tive literature searches and by examining and History, Washington, D.C.); Aileen H. Sher recording louse specimens in the large col man (National Museum of Natural History, lections at the National Museum of Natural Washington, D.C.); Jane B. Walker (Veteri History, Washington, D.C. Louse distribu nary Research Institute, Onderstepoort, South tions may not always exactly reflect the known Africa); Ronald A. Ward (Walter Reed Army geographical ranges for the host mammals; Institute of Research, Washington, D.C., reasons for an apparent lack of host-parasite USA); Christian F. Weisser (University of congruence are that the particular host(s) may Heidelberg, Germany); and Nixon Wilson not have been examined for Anoplura (University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Rapids, throughout their range, or that a real disjunct USA). Robert E. Lewis and Richard G. Rob distribution between louse and host exists. bins provided helpful reviews of an earlier Accordingly, the actual geographical ranges draft of the manuscript. We are especially of some of the species oflice probably extend grateful to Lee H. Herman (American Mu beyond the ranges listed in this checklist and seum of Natural History) who suggested sev future collections should add to our knowl eral significant additions that measurably im edge in this respect. proved the manuscript. This manuscript is Finally, where relevant, a section entitled dedicated to Kary C. Emerson who contrib "Notes" briefly discusses any important ad uted so much to our knowledge of lice. ditionallouse, host, or geographical data. TAXONOMIC CHANGES MADE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IN THIS CHECKLIST Many valued colleagues helped with as Two taxonomic changes have been made pects of this work. Foremost, our apprecia and incorporated into this checklist: 1) Li tion should be directed toward Robert Traub nognathus setosus bhatii Dutta, 1988 is ele {Bethesda, Maryland, USA) who first en vated to species rank as Linognathus bhatii couraged the compilation of this checklist; Dutta, 1988; 2) Neohaematopinus baibacinae andto our wives who cheerfully tolerated the Blagoveshtchensky, 1965 is reassigned as long hours that we committed to this project. Linognathoides baibacinae (Blagoveshtch Others who assisted with various aspects of ensky, 1965). Reasons for making both this work are as follows: Nancy E. Adams changes are discussed under the appropriate (National Museum of Natural History, species entries. Washington, D.C.); Ta-Hsiung Chin (Gui yang Medical College, Guizhou Province, ORDER ANOPLURA LEACH, 1815 People's Republic of China); Stefan P. Cover [Entomology, Brewster's Edinburgh (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachu Encyclopaedia, 9: 77] setts, USA); the late Kary C. Emerson (San ibel, Florida, USA); Oliver S. Flint, Jr. (Na tional Museum of Natural History, FAMILY ECHINOPHTHIRIIDAE Washington, D.C.); Ronald A. Hellenthal ENDERLEIN, 1904 [Zoo!. Anz. 28: 136]. (University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, In diana, USA); Phyllis T. Johnson (Friday Har ANTARCTOPHTHIRUS Enderlein, 1906 bor, Washington, USA); James E. Keirans [Zoo!. Anz. 29: 661]. (Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, 6 species in genus. 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 7
TYPE OF GENUS: A. ogmorhini. TYPE HOST: Hydrurga leptonyx (de Blainville) HOSTS: Carnivora: Odobenidae, Otariidae, (Carnivora: Phocidae). Phocidae. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Leptonychotes weddelli (Lesson), H. leptonyx (Carnivora: Phoci callorhini (Osborn, 1899) [In D. S. Jordan, dae). ed., The fur seals and the fur-seal islands TYPE LOCALITY: Antarctica: Victoria Land and of the North Pacific Ocean, 3: 553]. Booth Wandel Island. SYNONYMS: Haematopinus callorhini Os DISTRIBUTION: Antarctica. South Africa. born, 1899. - Antarctophthirus monar chus Kellogg and Ferris, 1915. - Achi ~ trichechi (Bohemann, 1865) [Vetenskaps mella callorhini (Osborn): Eichler, 1941. Akad. Forhandlinger Kobnhaven 22: 557]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Callorhinus ur SYNONYMs: Haematopinus trichechi Bohe sinus (Linnaeus) (Carnivora: Otariidae). mann, 1865. - Arctophthirus trichechi TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Alaska, Pribilof Is (Bohemann): Mjoberg, 1910. lands. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Odobenus ros Distribution: Northern Pacific Ocean and Be marus (Linnaeus) (Carnivora: Odobeni ring Sea. dae). TYPE LOCALITY: Norway: Spitsbergen Island, lobodontis Enderlein, 1909 [Deutsche Siid Hinlopen Strait. polar Expedition 10: 510]. DISTRIBUTION: Arctic region. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Lobodon carci nophagus (Hombron and Jacquinot) (Car- ~ ECHINOPHTHIRlUSGiebel, 1871 [Z. Ges. nivora: Phocidae). Naturwiss. 37: 177]. TYPE LOCALITY: Antarctica: Booth Wandel 1 species in genus. Island. TYPE OF GENUS: E. horridus. DISTRIBUTION: Antarctica. HOSTS: Carnivora: Phocidae. mawsoni Harrison, 1937 [Australasian Ant '" horridus (von Olfers, 1816) [De vegetativis arctic Expedition, 1911-1914, Scientific et animatis corporibus animatis reperiun Reports, Ser. C-Zool. Bot. 2(1): 11]. dis commentarius, Part 1, p. 84]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Ommatophoca SYNONYMs: Pediculus horridus von Olfers, rossii Gray (Carnivora: Phocidae). 1816. - Pediculus phocae Lucas, 1834. - TYPE LOCALITY: Antarctica: King George V Pediculus setosus Burmeister, 1838. - Land. Haematopinus setosus Lucas: Denny, 1842. DISTRIBUTION: Antarctica. - Haematopinus annulatus Schilling, 1857. - Haematopinus (Echinophthirius) microchir (Trouessart and Neumann, 1888) setosus (Denny) [sic.]: Giebel, 1874. [Le Naturaliste 10: 80]. Echinophthirius setosus (Lucas): Piaget, SYNONYMS: Echinophthirius microchir 1880. - Echinophthirius groenlandicus Trouessart and Neumann, 1888. - An Becher, 1886. - Echinophthirius sericans tarctophthirus microchir cali/ornicus Fah Meinert, 1897. - Echinophthirius phocae renholz, 1939. (Lucas): Enderlein, 1904. - Echinophthir TYPE HOST: Phocarctos hookeri (Gray) (Car ius sericeus Meinert: Dalla Torre, 1908. - nivora: Otariidae). Echinophthirius horridus baikalensis Ass, PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Eumetopiasjubatus (Schre 1935. - Echinophthirius horridus erigna ber), Zalophus cali/ornicus (Lesson), Neo thi Blagoveshtchensky, 1966. phoca cinerea (Peron), Otaria bryonia (de TYPE HOST: Phoca vitulina Linnaeus (Carniv Blainville), P. hookeri (Carnivora: Otari ora: Phocidae). idae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Cystophora crystata (Erx TYPE LOCALITY: "Aukland Island;" presum leben), Erignathus barbatus (Erxleben), ably this is Auckland Island. Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius), Phoca DISTRIBUTION: Antarctica. Northern Pacific groenlandica Erxleben, P. hispida Schre waters from California to the Arctic Circle. ber, P. sibirica Gmelin, P. vitulina (Car ogmorhini Enderlein, 1906 [2001. Anz. 29: nivora: Phocidae). 662]. TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. 8 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218
DISTRIBUTION: Holarctic region (mainly TYPE HOST: Eumetopias jubatus (Schreber) northern). (Carnivora: Otariidae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Callorhinus ursinus (Lin ~ LATAGOPHTHIRUS Kim and Emerson, naeus), E. jubatus (Carnivora: Otariidae). 1974 [J. Med. Entomol. 11: 442]. TYPE LOCALITY: Not stated; presumably Alas 1 species in genus. ka according to Kim et ai. (1986). TYPE OF GENUS: L. rauschi. DISTRIBUTION: Northern Pacific Ocean and HOSTS: Carnivora: Mustelidae. Bering Sea. v rauschi Kim and Emerson, 1974 [J. Med. ~/zumpti Werneck, 1955 [Rev. Bras. BioI. 15: Entomol. 11: 442]. 419]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Lontra canadensis TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Arctocephalus (Schreber) (Carnivora: Mustelidae). pusillus (Schreber) (Carnivora: Otariidae). TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Oregon, Coos County, TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Cape Prov., 1.6 km NE of Broadbent. Mussel Bay. DISTRIBUTION: USA: Alaska, Oregon. DISTRIBUTION: South Afri-ca. NOTES: Wozencraft (1993: 310) explained why canadensis is sometimes listed in the genus Lontra following van Zyll de Jong (1972), whose research indicated that the New FAMILY ENDERLEINELLIDAE World otters formerly in Lutra were not in EWING, 1929 [A manual of external par the same monophyletic group as Old World asites, p. 132]. species of Lutra. ATOPOPHTHIRUS Kim, 1977 [J. Med. v LEPIDOPHTHIRUS Enderlein, 1904 [Zool. Entomol. 14: 417]. Anz. 28: 44]. 2 species in genus. 2 species in genus. TYPE OF GENUS: A. emersoni. TYPE OF GENUS: L. macrorhini. HOSTS: Rodentia: Scuridae. HOSTS: Carnivora: Phocidae. /emersoni Kim, 1977 [J. Med. Entomoi. 14: V macrorhini Enderlein, 1904 [Zool. Anz. 28: 417]. 46]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Petaurista elegans TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Mirounga leonina (Muller) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). (Linnaeus) (Carnivora: Phocidae). TYPE LOCALITY: Peninsular Malaysia: Mers TYPE LOCALITY: Kerguelen Islands. ing, J ohore. DISTRIBUTION: South Africa. Kerguelen Is DISTRIBUTION: Peninsular Malaysia. lands. Macquarie Island. L- setosus Chin, 1979 [Entomotaxonomia 1: vpiriformis Blagoveshtchensky, 1966 [Ento 122]. mol. Rev. (Entomoi. Obozr., USSR) 45: TYPE HOST: Petaurista philippensis (Elliot) 457]. (Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Monachus mon- PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Petaurista alborufus (Milne achus (Hermann) (Carnivora: Phocidae). Edwards), P. philippensis (Rodentia: Sci TYPE LOCALITY: Anatolian Black Sea. uridae). DISTRIBUTION: Black Sea. TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: Guizhou Prov., Yongjiang Xian. PROECHINOPHTHIRUS Ewing, 1923 [J. DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: Washington Acad. Sci. 13: 149]. Guizhou Provo 2 species in genus. NOTES: Once placed in Petaurista petaurista, TYPE OF GENUS: P. fluctus. the taxon philippensis is now regarded as HOSTS: Carnivora: Otariidae. a distinct species sympatric with P. pe v ftuctus (Ferris, 1916) [Entomol. News 27: taurista in Thailand (Corbet and Hill, 1992: 366]. 310). Guizhou Province is well within the SYNONYMS: Echinophthirius fluctus Ferris, geographic range of P. philippensis and out 1916. - Proechinophthirus fluctus ocho side the distribution of the western P. pe tensis Blagoveshtchensky, 1966. taurista. 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 9
ENDERLEINELLUS Fahrenholz, 1912 DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: [Zool. Anz. 39: 56]. Hainan Island. Thailand. 45 species in genus. NOTES: Both species of squirrels are members TYPE OF GENUS: E. nitzschi. of the same tribe, Callosciurini (Moore, HOSTS: Rodentia: Sciuridae. 1959).
arizonensis Werneck, 1948 [Mem. Inst. Os vileppei Kim, 1966 [J. Parasitol. 52: 1012]. waldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro 45: 288 (1947)]. TYPE HOST: Sciurus deppei Peters (Rodentia: TYPE HOST: Sciurus arizonensis Coues (Ro Sciuridae). dentia: Sciuridae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Sciurus aureogaster F. Cu PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Sciurus alleni Nelson, S. vier, S. granatensis Humboldt, S. deppei nayaritensis J. A. Allen, S. arizonensis (Ro (Rodentia: Sciuridae). dentia: Sciuridae). TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico: Tabasco, Teapa. TYPE 'LOCALITY: USA: Arizona, Huachuca DISTRIBUTION: Mexico. Nicaragua. Panama. Mountains. ./disparilis Blagoveshtchensky, 1965 [Ento DISTRIBUTION: Mexico. Southwestern USA. mol. Rev. (Entomol. Obozr., USSR) 44: NOTES: Although E. arizonensis infests sev 86]. eral host species, there is a phylogenetic tie TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Spermophilus un between louse and hosts because the four dulatus (Pallas) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). species of squirrels are morphologically TYPE LOCALITY: Russian Federation: Amur closely related to the fox squirrel (S. niger) Prov., Amur-Zeya Plateau. and form a monophyletic group of allo DISTRIBUTION: Russian Federation: Amur patric species separate from the other North Provo American squirrels (S. carolinensis, S. gri seus, S. aberti, and S. aureogaster) that oc e dolichocephalus Blagoveshtchensky, 1965 cur in the same broad region throughout [Entomol. Rev. (Entomol. Obozr. USSR) the United States and Mexico. 44: 85]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Marmota cam \ blagoveshtchenskyi Sosnina and Ozerova, tschatica (Pallas) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). 1988 [Izvest. Akad. Nauk Kirghizskoi SSR, TYPE LOCALITY: Russian Federation: Yaku Khim.-Tekool. Nauk 4: 56]. tia-Sakha, Bulun District, River Lonki. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Marmota baiba DISTRIBUTION: Russian Federation: Yakutia cina Kastschenko (Rodentia: Sciuridae). Sakha. TYPE LOCALITY: Kyrgyzstan. c- dremomydis Ferris, 1920 [Contributions to DISTRIBUTION: Kyrgyzstan. ward a monograph ofthe sucking lice, Part I, Stanford Univ. Pub. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. brasiliensis Werneck, 1937 [Mem. Inst. Os 2(1): 29 (1919)]. waldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro 32: 399]. TYPE HOST: Dremomys pernyi (Milne-Ed TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Sciurus aestuans wards) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). Linnaeus (Rodentia: Sciuridae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Dremomys rufigenis (Blan TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil: Para State, Abaete. ford), D. pernyi (Rodentia: Sciuridae). DISTRIBUTION: Brazil. TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: NOTES: What is now called Sciurus aestuans West Sichuan. is a complex of several species. DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: Guizhou, Sichuan Provs. Thailand. • corrugatus Johnson, 1959 [Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. 110: 570]. Auxeri Ferris, 1920 [Contributions toward a TYPE HOST: Tamiops macclellandi (Horsfield) monograph of the sucking lice, Part I, Stan (Rodentia: Sciuridae). ford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. 2(1): PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Callosciurus erythraeus 37 (1919)]. (Pallas), T. macclellandi (Rodentia: Sci SYNONYM: Hoplophthirus euxeri (Ferris): Ew uridae). ing, 1929. TYPE LOCALITY: Thailand: Chaiyaphum, TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Xerus erythropus Phukhieo, Ban Kaeng, Ban Lat. (Desmarest) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). 10 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218
TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya: "Wambagu and Oni." squirrel genera are members of the tribe DISTRIBUTION: Dahomey. Kenya. Liberia. Protoxerini (Moore, 1959), so a rough phy Nigeria. Sudan. logenetic concordance exists between par asite and host species. extremus Ferris, 1920 [Contributions toward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part I, l· hondurensis Werneck, 1948 [Mem. Inst. Os Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. waldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro 45: 286]. 2(1): 24 (1919)]. TYPE HOST: Sciurus variegatoides Ogilby (Ro TYPE HOST: Sciurus aureogaster F. Cuvier dentia: Sciuridae). (Rodentia: Sciuridae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Sciurus yucatanensis J. A. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Sciurus deppei Peters, S. Allen, S. variegatoides (Rodentia: Sciuri aureogaster (Rodentia: Sciuridae). dae). TYPE LOCALITY: Guatemala: Nenton. TYPE LOCALITY: Honduras: San Pedro, Sula DISTRIBUTION: Guatemala. Mexico. Prairie. NOTES: These two host species are also par DISTRIBUTION: Colombia. Honduras. Mexi asitized by Enderleinellus deppei. co. Nicaragua. Panama. NOTES: The two species of squirrel hosts are r ferrisi (Touleshkov, 1957) [Dokl. Bulg. Akad. phylogenetically closely related (Musser, Nauk 10: 424]. 1968). SYNONYM: Cyc!ophthirus ferrisi Touleshkov, 1957. \, insularis Werneck, 1948 [Mem. Inst. Oswal TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Spermophilus ci do Cruz, Rio de Janeiro 45: 293 (1947)]. tellus (Linnaeus) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Sciurus granatenis TYPE LOCALITY: Bulgaria: Sofia County, Kre Humboldt (Rodentia: Sciuridae). mikovtsi. TYPE LOCALITY: Venezuela: Margarita Island. DISTRIBUTION: Bulgaria. Macedonia. Poland. DISTRIBUTION: Venezuela.
l Iv gambiani Kuhn and Ludwig, 1965 [Senck. kaibabensis Kim, 1966 [J. Parasitol. 52: BioI. 46: 234]. 1000]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Heliosciurus TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Sciurus aberti punctatus (Temminck) (Rodentia: Sciuri Woodhouse (Rodentia: Sciuridae). dae). TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Arizona, Kaibab Na TYPE LOCALITY: Liberia: Eastern Prov., Putu tional Forest. Chiefdom, Peloken. DISTRIBUTION: USA: Arizona. DISTRIBUTION: Liberia. \. kelloggi Ferris, 1916 [Psyche 23: 105]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Sciurus griseus Ord heliosciuri Ferris, 1920 [Contributions to (Rodentia: Sciuridae). ward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part TYPE LOCALITY: USA: California, Stanford I, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. University. Sci. 2(1): 40 (1919)]. DISTRIBUTION: Western North America. SYNONYM: Rhinophthirus heliosciuri (Ferris): Ewing, 1929. krochinae Blagoveshtchensky, 1965 [Ento TYPE HOST: Heliosciurus undulatus (True) mol. Rev. (Entomol. Obozr., USSR) 44: (Rodentia: Sciuridae). 85]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Epixerus ebii (Temminck), TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Sciurus anomalus Heliosciurus gambianus (Ogilby), H. ru Guldenstaedt (Rodentia: Sciuridae). wenzorii (Schwann), H. rufobrachium (Wa TYPE LOCALITY: Azerbaijan: Zakataly. terhouse), H. undulatus, Paraxerus cepapi DISTRIBUTION: Azerbaijan. Syria. Turkey. (A. Smith), Protoxerus aubinii (Gray), P. stangeri (Waterhouse) (Rodentia: Sciuri ~ kumadai Kaneko, 1954 [Bull. Tokyo Med. dae). Dent. Univ. 1: 49]. TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya: Mazeras. TYPE HOST: Callosciurus erythraeus (Roden DISTRIBUTION: Angola. Kenya. Liberia. Tan tia: Sciuridae). zania. Uganda. Zaire. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Callosciurus finlaysoni NOTES: Except for Paraxerus, all the other (Horsfield), C. nigrovittatus (Horsfield), C. 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 11
notatus (Boddaert), C. prevostii (Desma 'marmotae Ferris, 1920 [Contributions to rest), C. erythraeus (Rodentia: Sciuridae). ward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part TYPE LOCALITY: Japan: Tokyo, Oshima Is I, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. land. Sci. 2(1): 47 (1919)]. DISTRIBUTION: Borneo. Peninsular Malaysia. TYPE HOST: Marmota monax (Linnaeus) (Ro Taiwan. Thailand. dentia: Sciuridae). NOTES: This louse was described from ma TYPE LOCALITY: USA: North Dakota, Graf terial collected from a colony of Taiwanese ton. C. erythraeus that had escaped from a zoo DISTRIBUTION: Northeast and North-Central and established a colony near Tokyo, Ja USA. pan (Kaneko, 1954). NOTES: We suspect that this louse also par asitizes M. monax in Canada. larisci Ferris, 1920 [Contributions toward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part I, Stan ~ .. menetensis Ferris, 1920 [Contributions to ford Univ. PubI. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. 2(1): ward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part 17 (1919)]. I, Stanford Univ. PubI. Univ. Ser., BioI. SYNONYM: Euenderleinellus larisci (Ferris): Sci. 2(1): 14]. Ewing, 1929. SYNONYM: Euenderleinellus menetensis (Fer TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Lariscus insignis ris): Ewing, 1929. (F. Cuvier) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Menetes berd TYPE LOCALITY: Southwest Borneo (presum morei (Blyth) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). ably now Indonesia: Kalimantan): Lan TYPE LOCALITY: Thailand: Koh Kut Island. chut. DISTRIBUTION: Thailand. DISTRIBUTION: Borneo. & mexicanus Werneck, 1948 [Mem. Inst. Os waldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro 45: 289 (1947)]. longiceps Kellogg and Ferris, 1915 [Anoplura TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Sciurus aureo and Mallophaga of North American mam gaster F. Cuvier (Rodentia: Sciuridae). mals, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., no TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico: Chacala. vol. no., p. 44]. DISTRIBUTION: Mexico. TYPE HOST: "Gray squirrel" -designated by Kim (1966) as Sciurus carolinensis Gmelin ( microsciuri Werneck, 1948 [Mem. Inst. Os (Rodentia: Sciuridae). waldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro 45: 287 (1947)]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: S. carolinensis, Sciurus ni TYPE HOST: Microsciurus mimulus (Tho ger Linnaeus (Rodentia: Sciuridae). mas)(Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Nebraska, Lincoln. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Microsciurus a/fari (J. A. DISTRIBUTION: North America. Also intro Allen), M. mimulus (Rodentia: Sciuridae). duced to Europe and possibly elsewhere TYPE LOCALITY: Colombia: Choco, Novita. with S. carolinensis. DISTRIBUTION: Colombia. Panama. [ nannosciuri Ferris, 1920 [Contributions to malaysianus Ferris, 1920 [Contributions to ward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part ward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part I, Stanford Univ. PubI. Univ. Ser., BioI. I, Stanford Univ. PubI. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. 2(1): 12 (1919)]. Sci. 2(1): 30 (1919)]. TYPE HOST: Callosciurus caniceps (Gray) (Ro TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Nannosciurus me dentia: Sciuridae). lanotis (Muller) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Callosciurus notatus (Bod TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia: Java, Batavia (= Jakarta). daert) , C. prevostii (Desmarest), cani c. DISTRIBUTION: Indonesia: Java. ceps (Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE LOCALITY: Malaysia: Mergui Archipel nayaritensis Kim, 1966 [J. Parasitol. 52: 998]. ago, St. Luke's Island (N.B., the Mergui TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Sciurus nayari- Archipelago now is part of Myanmar (for tensis J. A. Allen. (Rodentia: Sciuridae). merly Burma». TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico: Zacatecas, Sierra DISTRIBUTION: Borneo. Myanmar. Peninsu Madre. lar Malaysia. Thailand. DISTRIBUTION: Mexico. 12 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218
, nishimarui Kaneko, 1963 [Bull. Tokyo Med. lated to one another and in the subgenus Dent. Univ. 9: 132]. Xerospermophilus; S. atricapillus, S. var TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Funambulus pen iegatus, and S. beecheyi are members of nantii Wroughton (Rodentia: Sciuridae). the subgenus Otiospermophilus; and S. bel TYPE LOCALITY: India: Madhya Pradesh State, dingi is in the subgenus Spermophilus Nalainpur. (Hoffmann et ai., 1993). DISTRIBUTION: India: Madhya Pradesh State. v paralongiceps Kim, 1966 [J. Parasitol. 52: Nepal. 1002]. v nitzschi Fahrenholz, 1916 [Arch. Naturges., TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Sciurus aberti Abt. A, 11: 29 (1915)]. Woodhouse (Rodentia: Sciuridae). SYNONYMS: Pediculus sphaerocephalus TYPE WCALITY: USA: Colorado, Estes Park. Nitzsch, 1818. - Haematopinus sphaer DISTRIBUTION: Southwestern USA. ocephalus (Nitzsch): Denny, 1842. - Po lyplax sphaerocephala (Nitzsch): Ender- v platyspicatus Ferris, 1920 [Contributions to 1ein, 1904. - Enderleinellus spaerocephalus ward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part (Nitzsch): Enderlein, 1912. - Enderlei I, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. nellus sphaerocephalus (Nitzsch): Fahren Sci. 2(1): 26 (1919)]. holz, 1912 (partim). SYNONYM: Euendelerleinellus platyspicatus TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Sciurus vulgaris (Ferris): Ewing, 1929. Linnaeus (Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Funambulus pal TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. marum (Linnaeus) (Rodentia, Sciuridae). DISTRIBUTION: Eurasia. TYPE WCALITY: Ceylon (= Sri Lanka): Co lombo. oculatus Kim, 1966 [J. Parasitol. 52: 1000]. DISTRIBUTION: Sri Lanka. TYPE HOST: Sciurus oculatus Peters (Roden tia: Sciuridae). i.- pratti Kim, 1966 [J. Parasitol. 52: 1016]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Sciurus alleni Nelson, S. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Sciurus colliaei oculatus (Rodentia: Sciuridae). Richardson (Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico: Vera Cruz State. TYPE WCALITY: Mexico: Tepic, Santiago. DISTRIBUTION: Mexico. DISTRIBUTION: Mexico. NOTES: Both host species are members of the fox squirrel group (S. niger and allies) and • propinquus Blagoveshtchensky, 1965 [Ento not the North American gray squirrels (S. mol. Rev. (Entomol. Obozr., USSR) 44: carolinensis, S. griseus, S. aberti). 87]. TYPE HOST: Spermophilus fulvus (Lichten l· osborni Kellogg and Ferris, 1915 [Anoplura stein)(Rodentia: Sciuridae). and Mallophaga of North American mam TYPE LOCALITY: Kazakhstan: Alma-Ata. mals, Stanford Univ. Pub., Univ. Ser., no PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Spermophilus citellus (Lin vol. no., p. 43]. naeus), S. suslicus (Guldenstaedt), S./ulvus TYPE HOST: Spermophilus beecheyi (Richard (Rodentia: Sciuridae). son) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). DISTRIBUTION: Kazakhstan. Poland. Ruma PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Spermophilus mohavensis nia. Merriam, S. tereticaudus Baird, S. varie NOTES: All the host species are in the sub gatus (Erxleben), S. atricapillus W. E. Bry genus Spermophilus (Hoffmann et aI., ant, S. beldingi Merriam, S. beecheyi (Ro 1993). dentia: Sciuridae). TYPE LOCALITY: USA: California, Mendocino l puvensis Blagoveshtchensky, 1972 [Entomol. County, Covelo. Rev. (Entomol. Obozr., USSR) 51: 185]. DISTRIBUTION: Mexico. Western North TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Callosciurus in America. ornatus (Gray) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). NOTES: Here the louse species is distributed TYPE WCALITY: People's Republic of China: between three phylogenetic groups of Yunnan Prov., P'uwen. ground squirrel hosts. Spermophilus mo DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: havensis and S. tereticaudus are closely re- Yunnan Provo 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 13 replicatus Redikorzev, 1937 [Parasitology 29: TYPE HOST: Tamiasciurus hudsonicus (Erx 4]. leben) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Pteromys volans PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Tamiasciurus douglasii (Linnaeus). (Bachman), T. hudsonicus (Rodentia: Sci (Rodentia: Sciuridae). uridae). TYPE LOCALITY: Russian Federation: Tatar TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Pennsylvania, Wayne skaya. County. DISTRIBUTION: Russian Federation: Tatar DISTRIBUTION: North America. skaya. I tamiasis Fahrenho1z, 1916 [Arch. Naturges., sciurotamiasis Ferris, 1920 [Contributions Abt. A 81: 27]. toward a monograph of the sucking lice, TYPE HOST: Tamias striatus (Linnaeus) (Ro Part I, Stanford Univ. Pubi. Univ. Ser., dentia: Sciuridae). BioI. Sci. 2(1): 35 (1919)]. PRINCIPAL HOST: Tamias sibiricus (Laxmann) TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Seiurotamias dav (Rodentia: Sciuridae). idianus (Milne-Edwards (Rodentia: Sci TYPE LOCALITY: Germany: Berlin, Zoological uridae). Gardens. TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: DISTRIBUTION: Korea. Shaanxi Provo NOTES: This louse was described from ma DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: terial collected from chipmunks at the Ber Shaanxi Prov. lin zoo. The type host may have been mis identified as T. striatus, a North American suturalis (Osborn, 1891) [U.S. Dep. Agric., species which is morphologically similar to Div. EntomoI., Bull. (old series) 7: 27]. the Eurasian T. sibiricus. SYNONYMS: Haematopinus suturalis Osborn, urosciuri Werneck, 1937 [Mem. Inst. Os 1891. - Enderleinellus suturalis oceiden waldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 32: 400]. talis Kellogg and Ferris, 1916. - Cyclo TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Seiurus igniventris phthirus suturalis (Osborn): Ewing, 1929. Wagner (Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE HOST: Spermophilus tridecemlineatus TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil: Amazonas State, Rio (Mitchill) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). Negro, Acajutuba. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Ammospermophilus harrisi DISTRIBUTION: Brazil. (Audubon and Bachman), A. nelsoni (Mer riam), Cynomys gunnisoni (Baird), C. leu venezuelae Ferris, 1920 [Contributions to curus Merriam, Spermophilus beldingi ward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part Merriam, S.franklinii (Sabine), S.lateralis I, Stanford Univ. Publ, Univ. Ser., BioI. (Say), S. mexicanus (Erxleben), S. richard Sci. 2(1): 25 (1919)]. sonii (Sabine), s. spilosoma Bennett, S. ter TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Sciurus granaten eticaudus Baird, S. townsendii Bachman, sis Humboldt (Rodentia: Sciuridae). S. tridecemlineatus (Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE LOCALITY: Venezuela: Macuto. TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Iowa, Ames. DISTRIBUTION: Venezuela. DISTRIBUTION: North America including c/zonatus Ferris, 1920 [Contributions toward Mexico. a monograph of the sucking lice, Part I, NOTES: Kim et ai. (1963) advocated that E. Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. suturalis is a polytypic taxon. The host spe 2(1): 32 (1919)]. cies are certainly phylogenetically diverse. SYNONYM: Euenderleinellus zonatus (Ferris): They are in three genera, and the species Ewing, 1929. of Spermophilus are members of five sub TYPE HOST: Paraxerus ochraceus (Huet) (Ro genera (Spermophilus, Callospermophilus, dentia: Sciuridae). Xerospermophilus, Ictidomys, and Polio PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Paraxerus palliatus (Pe eitellus) (Hoffmann et aI., 1993). ters), P. ochraceus (Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya: Kijabe. tamiasciuri Kim, 1966 [J. Parasitoi. 52: 1021]. DISTRIBUTION: Kenya. South Africa. SYNONYM: Enderleinellus sphaerocephalus (Nitzsch, 1818) (partim). ~ MICROPHTHIRUS Ferris, 1920 [Contri- 14 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218
butions toward a monograph of the sucking We have not been able to examine the spec lice, Part I, Stanford Univ. Pubi. Univ. Ser., imen from which the louse type was de BioI. Sci. 2(1): 49 (1919)]. scribed. 1 species in genus. funisciuri Benoit, 1969 [Rev. Zooi. Bot. Af TYPE OF GENUS: M. uncinatus. ricaines 80: 114]. HOSTS: Rodentia: Sciuridae. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Funisciurus car ~ uncinatus (Ferris, 1916) [Psyche 23: 108]. ruthersi Thomas (Rodentia: Sciuridae). SYNONYM: Enderleinellus uncinatus Ferris, TYPE LOCALITY: Rwanda: Uinka. 1916. DISTRIBUTION: Congo. Rwanda. Zaire. TYPE HOST: Glaucomys sabri nus (Shaw) (Ro L minuta (Werneck, 1947) [Mem. Inst. Oswal dentia: Sciuridae). do Cruz, Rio de Janeiro 45: 296]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Glaucomys volans (Lin SYNONYM: Enderleinellus minutus Werneck, naeus), G. sabrinus (Rodentia: Sciuridae). 1947. TYPE LOCALITY: USA: California, Yosemite TYPE HOST: Paraxerus ochraceus (Huet) (Ro National Park. dentia: Sciuridae). DISTRIBUTION: Canada: British Columbia. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: P araxerus cepapi (A. USA: California, Minnesota, Oregon. Smith), P. ochraceus, Heliosciurus ru/ob PHTHIRUNCULUS Kuhn and Ludwig, rachium (Waterhouse) (Rodentia: Sciuri 1965 [Senck. BioI. 46: 245]. dae). 1 species in genus. TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya: Kijabe. TYPE OF GENUS: P. sumatranus. DISTRIBUTION: Congo. Kenya. Zaire. HOSTS: Rodentia: Sciuridae. NOTES: Parasite and host infestation is phy logenetically discordant. H eliosciurus is a sumatranus Kuhn and Ludwig, 1965 [Senck. member of the tribe Protoxerini, Paraxe BioI. 46: 245]. rus is in the Funambulini (Moore, 1959). TYPE HOST: Petaurista petaurista (Pallas) (Ro dentia: Sciuridae). nigeriensis Kaneko, 1979 [J. Med. Entomoi. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Petaurista alboru/us (Milne 15: 510]. Edwards), P. philippensis (Elliot), P. pe TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Funisciurus isa- taurista (Rodentia: Sciuridae). bella (Gray) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia: Sumatra, Deli TYPE LOCALITY: Nigeria: Ile-Ife. Provo DISTRIBUTION: Nigeria. DISTRIBUTION: Indonesia: Sumatra. People's NOTES: This record from Nigeria either rep Republic ofChina: Guizhou Provo Taiwan. resents a new geographic record for the host or its misidentification because F. isabella I WERNECKIA Ferris, 1951 [The sucking lice, has only b PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Equus burchellii (Gray), E. FAMILY HAEMATOPINIDAE caballus Linnaeus, E. asinus (Perissodac ENDERLEIN, 1904 [ZooI. Anz. 28: 136]. tyla: Equidae). HAEMATOPINUS Leach, 1815 [Encyclo- TYPE LOCALITY: Not stated. paedia Brittanica, SuppI. 1: 24]. DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan. 21 species in genus. : breviculus Fahrenholz, 1939 [Mitteilungen TYPE OF GENUS: H. suis. L c aus dem entomologischen Verein Bremen, HOSTS: Artiodactyla: Bovidae, Cervidae, Su p.32]. idae. Perissodactyla: Equidae: TYPE HOST: Not stateg.., Neotype designated by Weisser (1974) from Taurotragus oryx . acuticeps Ferris, 1933 [Contributions toward (Pallas) (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). a monograph of the sucking lice, Part VI, TYPE LOCALITY: Not stated; neotype from Stanford Univ. PubI. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. 2(6): 467]. Uganda: Jie County, Karamoja. DISTRIBUTION: Uganda. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Equus burchellii (Gray) (Perissodactyla: Equidae). vbufali (De Geer, 1778) [Memoires pour servir TYPE WCALITY: Tanzania: Mpwapwa. a l'histoire naturelle des insectes apteres 7: DISTRIBUTION: Tanzania. 68]. apri Goureau, 1866 [Bull. Soc. Sci. Hist. Nat. SYNONYMs: Pediculus bufali De Geer, 1778. Yonne, Auxerre 20: 205]. - Pediculus bufali -capensis Fabricius, SYNONYMS: Haematopinus urius Nitzsch, 1781. - Pediculus papillosus von Olfers, 1870 (partim). - Haematopinus aperis 1816. - Pediculus phthiropsis Gervais, Ferris, 1933. 1844. - Haematopinus phthiropsis (Ger TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: SUS scrofa Lin- vais): Giebel, 1874.-Haematopinus neu naeus (Artiodactyla: Suidae). manni Fahrenholz, 1915.-Haematopinus TYPE WCALITY: Western Europe. bufali bufali (De Geer): Fahrenholz, 1917. DISTRIBUTION: Eurasia. TYPE HOST: "Le bufHe d'Afrique." NOTES: H. apri typically parasitizes wild hogs PRINCIPAL HOST: Syncerus caffer (Sparrman) whereas H. suis is more commonly asso (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). ciated with domestic swine. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Cape Province. DISTRIBUTION: Congo. Kenya. Rwanda. South asini (Linnaeus, 1758) [Systema Naturae, Africa. Sudan. Uganda. Zaire. Zambia. Edition X, p. 612]. Zimbabwe. SYNONYMs: Pediculus asini Linnaeus, 1758. - Pediculus asini (Linnaeus): Stephens, channabasavannai Krishna Rao, Khuddus 1829. - Pediculus macrocephalus Bur and Kuppuswamy, 1977 [Mysore J. Agric. meister, 18~8. - Haematopinus equi Sim Sci. 11: 589]. monds, 1865. - Haematopinus asini va- TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Bos taurus Lin riety colorata Piaget, 1880. naeus (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). Haematopinus macrocephalus (Burmeis TYPE LOCALITY: India: Karnataka State, ter): Piaget, 1880. - Haematopinus ele Mandya. gans Fahrenholz, 1916. - Haematopinus DISTRIBUTION: India: Karnataka State. minorFahrenholz, 1916. - Haematopinus NOTES: We have not seen type material of asini asini (Linnaeus): Webb, 1948; Hae this louse species. When it is examined, the matopinus asini burchellis Webb, 1948. - validity of the taxon can be assessed. Haematopinus asini elegans Fahrenholz: Webb, 1948. - Haematopinus asini ma I eurysternus (Nitzsch, 1818) [Germar's Ma crocephalus (Burmeister): Webb, 1948. - gazin EntomoI. 3: 305]. Haematopinus asini minor Fahrenholz: SYNONYMs: Pediculus eurysternus Nitzsch, Webb,1948. 1818. - Haematopinus brevipes Fiedler TYPE HOST: Equus asinus Linnaeus (Peris and Stampa, 1956. - Haematopinus pal sodactyla: Equidae). pebrae Gretillat, 1957 (partim). 16 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Bos taurus Lin longus Neumann, 1912 [Bull. Soc. Zool. naeus (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). France 37: 141]. TYPE LOCALITY: Britain. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Cervus unicolor DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide in temperate (Kerr) (Artiodactyla: Cervidae). zones. TYPE LOCALITY: "Nepaul: Kota;" this is NOTES: Kim and Weisser (1973, 1974) dis seemingly Nepal but one town with the cussed usage of the name Haematopinus name Kota is in northern India. eurysternus in relation to that of Soleno DISTRIBUTION: India. Kampuchea. Nepal. potes capillatus. People's Republic of China: Yunnan Provo v gorgonis Werneck, 1952 [Rev. Bras. BioI. 12: vludwigi Weisser, 1974 [Zool. Anz. 193: 127]. 201]. TYPE HOST: SUS philippensis Nehring (Ar TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Connochaetes tiodactyla: Suidae). taurinus (Burchell) (Artiodactyla: Bovi PRINCIPAL HOSTS: SUS barbatus Miiller, S. dae). philippensis (Artiodactyla: Suidae). TYPE LOCALITY: Tanzania: Ukerewe Penin TYPE LOCALITY: Philippines: Luzon, Mt. sula. Makiling. DISTRIBUTION: Tanzania. DISTRIBUTION: East Malaysia: Sarawak. Phil ippines: Luzon, Mindoro. v jeannereti Paulian and Pli.Wt, 1966 [Bull. Soc. NOTES: Sus barbatus is native to Borneo; S. Entomol. France 71: 50]. philippensis is the indigenous Philippine pig TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Taurotragus der (Grubb, 1993: 378). bianus (Gray) (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). TYPE LOCALITY: Central African Republic: c meinertzhageni Werneck, 1952 [Rev. Bras. Soulemaka, between Ouanda Djalle and BioI. 12: 206]. Quijoux Pass in NE Central African Re TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Hylochoerus mei public. nertzhageni Thomas (Artiodactyla: Su DISTRIBUTION: Central African Republic. idae). NOTES: Weisser (1974) suggested that H. TYPE LOCALITY: Uganda: Ankole, Buhwezu jeannereti should be treated as a synonym County, Lukiri. of H. taurotragi. DISTRIBUTION: Kenya. Rwanda. Uganda. Zaire. V latus Neumann, 1909 [Arch. Parasitol. 13: Vnigricantis Weisser and Kim, 1972 [Pac. In 505]. sects 14: 15]. SYNONYMS: Haematopinus peristictus Kel TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Cervus mariannus logg and Paine, 1911 (partim). - H ae Desmarest (Artiodactyla: Cervidae). matopinus incisus Harms, 1912. - H ae TYPE LOCALITY: Philippines: Luzon, Mt. matopinus latus latissimus Fahrenholz, Province, Bontoc. 1939. DISTRIBUTION: Philippines: Luzon. TYPE HOST: Potamochoerus larvatus (F. Cu NOTES: The host was originally identified as vier) (Artiodactyla: Suidae). Cervus unicolor, which was once thought PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Potamochoerus porcus to occur in the Philippines as C. u. mar (Linnaeus), P. larvatus (Artiodactyla: Su iannus, but mariannus has been separated idae). as a distinct species indigenous to some TYPE LOCALITY: North Nyasaland (= Mala islands in the Philippine archipelago wi): Kaporo, close to the Songwe River. (Grubb, 1993: 386). DISTRIBUTION: Kenya. Malawi. Mozam bique. South Africa. Tanzania. Uganda. voliveri Mishra and Singh, 1978 [Bull. Zool. Zaire. Zambia. Zimbabwe. Surv. India 1: 167]. NOTES: Potamochoerus has been considered TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: SUS salvanius monotypic but Grubb (1993: 378) listed (Hodgson) (Artiodactyla: Suidae). two species and outlined their geographic TYPE LOCALITY: India: NW Assam, Dorrang. distributions. DISTRIBUTION: India: Assam. 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 17 oryx Fiedler and Stampa, 1958 [J. Egypt. Publ. venticus Fahrenholz: Ewing, 1934. - Hae Hlth. Assoc. 33: 181]. matopinus chinensis Fahrenholz: Fahren TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Oryx gazella (Lin holz, 1939. naeus) (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: SUS scrofa Lin TYPE LOCALITY: Southern Namibia. naeus (Artiodactyla: Suidae). DISTRIBUTION: Angola. Namibia. TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden. _ phacochoeri Enderlein, 1908 [Wiss. Ergebn. DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan. Schwedische Exped. nach dem Kilimand vt~lUrotragi Cummings, 1914 [Bull. Entomol. jaro, dem Meru, und dem umgebenden Res. 5: 155]. Massaische Steppen 11: 7]. TYPE HOST: Taurotragus oryx (Pallas) (Ar SYNONYM: Haematopinus peristictus Kellogg tiodactyla: Bovidae). and Paine, 1911 (partim). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Tragelaphus strepsiceros TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Phacochoerus af (Pallas), Taurotragus oryx (Artiodactyla: ricanus (Gmelin) (Artiodactyla: Suidae). Bovidae). TYPE LOCALITY: Tanzania: Mt. Kilimanjaro. TYPE LOCALITY: England: "in a menagerie." DISTRIBUTION: Congo. Malawi. Mozam DISTRIBUTION: Botswana. Namibia. South bique. Namibia. Rwanda. South Africa. Africa. Tanzania. Zambia. Zimbabwe. Tanzania. Uganda. Zaire. Zambia. Zim babwe. , tuberculatus (Burmeister, l839) [Genera In NOTES: Louse specimens have been recorded sectorum, Rhynchota, Species 20]. from Phacochoerus aethiopicus, which was SYNONYMS: Pediculus bufali -europaei La once thought to be the only species of treille, 1800. - Pediculus tuberculatus warthog, but Grubb (1993: 377) indicated Burmeister, 1839. - Pediculus punctatus that species to have a restricted geographic Rudow, 1869. - Haematopinus punctatus range and another species, P. africanus, to (Rudow): Giebel, 1874.- Haematopinus be the common warthog. bufali -punctatus (Rudow): Fahrenholz, quadripertusus Fahrenholz, 1916 [Arch. Na 1917. - Haematopinus bufali -europaei turges., Abt. A 81: 19]. (Latreille): Fahrenholz, 1919. SYNONYMS: Haematopinus parviprocursus TYPE HOST: "Les bufHes venus d'Italie." Fahrenholz, 1916. - Haematopinus pal PRINCIPAL HOST: Bubalus bubalus (Linnaeus) pebrae Gretillat, 1957 (partim). (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Bos taurus Lin TYPE LOCALITY: India. naeus (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide in warmer regions. TYPE LOCALITY: Cameroon: Banjo. DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide in subtropical and tropical zones. FAMILY HAMOPHTHIRIIDAE Johnson, ~uis (Linnaeus, 175 8) [Systema Naturae, Edi 1969 [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 71: - tion X, p. 611]. 421]. SYNONYMs: Pediculus suis Linnaeus, 1758. - vHAMOPHTHIRIUS Mjoberg, 1925 Pediculus urius Nitzsch, 1818 (partim). - [Psyche 32: 283]. Haematopinus tuberculatus var. penicilla 1 species in genus. tus Piaget, 1885.- Haematopinus irritans TYPE OF GENUS: H. galeopitheci. Law, 1903. - Haematopinus suis adven HOSTS: Dermoptera: Cynocephalidae. ticus Neumann, 1911. - Haematopinus suis chinensis Fahrenholz, 1916. - Hae ~ galeopitheci Mjoberg, 1925 [Psyche 32: 283]. matopinus suis germanus (misprint for ger SYNONYM: Hamophthirus galeopitheci Mjob manicus), Fahrenholz, 1916. - Haema erg: Ferris, 1951. topinus suis sardinensis Fahrenholz, 1916. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Cynocephalus var - Haematopinus suis suis (Linnaeus): iegatus (Audebert) (Dermoptera: Cynoce Fahrenholz, 1917. - Haematopinus ad- phalidae). 18 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 TYPE LOCALITY: British North Borneo (= Sa !, nepalensis Kaneko and Uchikawa, 1988 [J. bah): Fesseltan (= Jesselton). Med. Entomol. 25: 267]. DISTRIBUTION: Borneo (Sabah). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Soriculus nigres cens (Gray) (Insectivora: Soricidae). TYPE LOCALITY: Nepal: Pokara. DISTRIBUTION: Nepal. FAMILY HOPLOPLEVRIDAE Ewing, 1929 [A manual of external parasites, p. ; taiwanensis Kaneko and Vchikawa, 1988 [J. 133]. Med. Entomol. 25: 270]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Soriculusfumidus '~ ANCISTROPLAX Waterston, 1929 [Para- Thomas (Insectivora: Soricidae). sitology 21: 161]. TYPE LOCALITY: Taiwan: Nantou-ken. 5 species in genus. DISTRIBUTION: Taiwan. TYPE OF GENUS: A. crocidurae. HOSTS: Insectivora: Soricidae. HAEMATOPINOIDESOsborn, 1891 [U.S. Dep. Agric. Div. Entomol. Bull. (old series) r chodsigoae Chin, 1984 [Entomotaxonomia 7: 28]. 6: 288]. 1 species in genus. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Soriculus smithii TYPE OF GENUS: H. squamosus by monotypy. (Thomas) (Insectivora: Soricidae). HOSTS: Insectivora: Talpidae. TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: Guizhou Prov., Suiyang County, Kuank - squamosus Osborn, 1891 [U.S. Dep. Agric. uoshui Nature Reserve. Div. Entomol. Bull. (old series) 7: 28]. DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: SYNONYM: Euhaematopinus abnormis Os Guizhou Provo born, 1896. NOTES: The host was identified as Soriculus TYPE HOST: Geomys bursarius (Shaw) (Ro salenskii Kastschenko but the range of that dentia: Geomyidae). species has been restricted to the type lo /PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Parascalops breweri (Bach cality in northern Sichuan (Hutterer, 1993: man), Sealopus aquaticus (Linnaeus) (In 123). The real host is probably S. smithii, sectivora: Talpidae). which is related to S. salenskii and occurs TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Iowa, Ames. from central Sichuan to western Shaanxi DISTRIBUTION: Eastern and central USA. provinces. NOTES: The type host designation may reflect a host misidentification. 1 crocidurae Waterston, 1929 [Parasitology 21: 161]. HOPLOPLEVRA Enderlein, 1904 [Zool. TYPE HOST: Crocidura horsfieldi (Tomes) (In Anz. 28: 221]. sectivora: Soricidae). 136 species in genus. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Crocidura antennuata TYPE OF GENUS: H. acanthopus. Milne-Edwards, C. horsfieldi (Insectivora: HOSTS: Rodentia: Muridae (Arvicolinae, Cri Soricidae). cetinae, Dendromurinae, Gerbillinae, Mu TYPE LOCALITY: Ceylon (= Sri Lanka). rinae, Sigmodontinae), Echimyidae, Oc DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: todontidae, Sciuridae. Lagomorpha: Guizhou Provo Sri Lanka. Ochotonidae. nasuta Johnson, 1964 [Misc. Publ. Entomol. , abeli Johnson, 1972 [Brigham Young Vniv. Soc. Am. 4: 76]. Sci. Bull., BioI. Ser. 17(5): 15]. TYPE HOST: "ground shrew." (Insectivora: TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Akodon bogotensis Soricidae). Thomas (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodon TYPE LOCALITY: North Borneo (= Sabah): Trus tinae). Madi, Pampang, Vlu Kaingaran. TYPE LOCALITY: Venezuela: Merida, 5 km E, DISTRIBUTION: Borneo (Sabah). Peninsular 6.5 km S of Tabay (Laguna Verde). Malaysia. DISTRIBUTION: Venezuela. NOTES: The type host was stated to be either NOTES: The host has often been placed in the Crocidura sp. or Suncus sp. (Johnson, genus Microxus but should be retained in 1964). Akodon (Musser and Carleton, 1993: 689). 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 19 acanthopus (Burmeister, 1839) [Genera In Pitymys. Although Hoplopleura acantho sectorum, Rhynchota, Species 5]. pus typically infests arvicoline rodents, SYNONYMs: Pediculus acanthopus Burmeis Kristofik and Lysy (1992) recorded the fac ter, 1839. - Haematopinus acanthopus ultative occurrence of the louse on Sorex (Burmeister): Denny, 1842. - Polyplax araneus, Crocidura leucodon, Apodemus' acanthopus (Burmeister): Enderlein, 1904. jlavicol/is,[ A. sylvaticus, and Micromysf - Polyplax villosa Galli-Valerio, 1905. minutus. Hoplopleura acanthopus var. americanus vaethomydis Kleynhans, 1971 [Onderstepoort Kellogg and Ferris, 1915. - Hoplopleura J. Vet. Res. 36: 299 (1969)]. acanthopus var. aequidentis Fahrenholz, TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Aethomys na 1916. - Hoplopleura acanthopus edentu maquensis (A. Smith) (Rodentia: Muridae: Ius Fahrenholz, 1916 (partim). - Hoplo Murinae). pleura acanthopus acanthopus (Burmeis TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Northern ter): Ferris, 1921.- Hoplopleura Transvaal, Zoutpansberg District. fahrenholzi Eichler, 1952. - Hoplopleura DISTRIBUTION: Botswana. South Africa. silesica Eichler, 1952. TYPE HOST: Microtus arvalis (Pallas) (Roden affinis (Burmeister, 1839) [Genera Insecto tia: Muridae: Arvicolinae). rum, Rhynchota, Species 10]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Arvicola sapidus Miller, A. SYNONYMS: Pediculus ajfinis Burmeister, terrestris (Linnaeus), Blanfordimys afghan 1839. - Haematopinus ajfinis (Burmeis us (Thomas), Chionomys nivalis (Martins), ter): Denny, 1842. - Haematopinus acan Clethrionomys gapperi (Vigors), C. glar thopus var. ajfinis (Burmeister): Piaget, eolus (Schreber), C. rufocanus (Sundevall), 1880.- Polyplax ajfinis (Burmeister): En Dicrostonyx groenlandicus (Traill), D. tor derlein, 1904. - Hoplopleura ajfinis ajfinis quatus (Pallas), Phaulomys smithii (Tho (Burmeister): Werneck, 1937. mas), Lasiopodomys brandtii (Radde), TYPE HOST: Apodemus agrarius (Pallas) (Ro Lemmiscus curtatus (Cope), Lemmus si dentia: Muridae: Murinae). biricus (Kerr), Microtus agrestis (Linnae PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Apodemus chevrieri (Milne us), M. arvalis, M. cali/omicus (Peale), M. Edwards), A. jlavicollis (Melchior), A. spe canicaudus Miller, M. fortis Buchner, M. ciosus (Temminck), A. sylvaticus (Linnae gregalis (Pallas), M. longicaudus (Merri us), A. agrarius (Rodentia: Muridae: Mu am), M. maximowiczii (Schrenk), M. mex rinae). icanus (Saussure), M. middendorffi (polia TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. kov), M. montanus (Peale), M. montebelli DISTRIBUTION: Eurasia. (Milne-Edwards), M. oeconomus (Pallas), NOTES: Curiously, H. ajfinis may also para M. oregoni (Bachman), M. pennsylvanicus sitize rodents in the Neotropics. Ferris (Ord), M. socialis (Pallas), M. townsendii (1921,1951), Johnson (1972a), and Castro (Bachman), M. multiplex (Fatio), M. och (1979) stated that sucking lice morpholog rogaster (Wagner), M. pinetorum (Le ically indistinguishable or very similar to Conte), M. savii (de SeIys-Longchamps), European H. ajfinis have been collected M. sikimensis (Hodgson), M. subterraneus from South American sigmodontine ro (de Selys-Longchamps), M. tatricus Kra dents. This would appear to represent a tochvil, Synaptomys borealis (Richard zoogeographical anomaly, butmayonlyre son), Synaptomys cooperi Baird (Rodentia: flect inadequate study of the Neotropical Muridae: Arvicolinae). samples. Closer scrutiny of those lice is TYPE WCALITY: Europe. necessary to determine whether or not they DISTRIBUTION: Holarctic region. represent species different from H. ajfinis. NOTES: Musser and Carleton (1993) ex Some of the Neotropical material previ plained why the generic names Blanfordi ously assigned to H. ajfinis is now recog mys, Chionomys, Lasiopodomys, Lemmis nized as H. argentina. cus, Microtus, and Phaulomys should be The species of Apodemus parasitized by used for some species that were arranged H. ajfinis fall into two monophyletic groups. in Eothenomys, Lagurus, Microtus, and Some systematists contend that jlavicollis 20 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 and sylvaticus should be in the genus Syl • angulata Ferris, 1921 [Contributions toward vaemus, and speciosus, agrarius, and chev a monograph of the sucking lice, Part II, rieri in the genus Apodemus (Musser and Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. Carleton, 1993: 569). 2(2): 73]. ¥'aitkeni Johnson, 1972 [Brigham Young Univ. TYPE HOST: Rhipidomys venezuelae Thomas (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodontinae). Sci. Bull., BioI. Ser. 17(5): 8]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Rhipidomys caucensis J. A. TYPE HOST: Akodon urichi J. A. Allen and Allen, R. couesi (J. A. Allen and Chapman), Chapman (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodon tinae). R. latimanus (Tomes), R. leucodactylus (Tschudi), R. macconelli De Winton, R. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Akodon azarae (Fischer), mastacalis (Lund), R. venustus Thomas, R. A. budini (Thomas), A. iniscatus Thomas, venezuelae, Thomasomys cinereus (Tho A. puer Thomas, A. molinae Contreras, A. mas) (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodontin urichi (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodontin ae). ae). TYPE LOCALITY: Venezuela. TYPE LOCALITY: Venezuela: Sucre, 26 km ESE DISTRIBUTION: Brazil. Colombia. Panama. of Carupano, Manacal. Peru. Trinidad. Venezuela. DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. Venezuela. NOTES: These host species of Rhipidomys and f akanezumi Sasa, 1950 [Japan. J. Exp. Med. Thomasomys are in the same tribe (Tho 20: 716]. masomyini). TYPE HOST: Apodemus speciosus (Temminck) v apomydis Ferris, 1921 [Contributions toward (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). a monograph of the sucking lice, Part II, PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Apodemus semotus Tho Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. mas, A. speciosus (Rodentia: Muridae: Mu 2(2): 84]. rinae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Apomys insignis TYPE LOCALITY: Japan: Mt. Fuji area, "Akita and Niigata." Mearns (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). TYPE LOCALITY: Philippines: Mindanao, Mt. DISTRIBUTION: Japan. Taiwan. Malingdang. NOTES: Both host species are in the same sub DISTRIBUTION: Philippines: Mindanao. genus, Alsomys (Musser and Carleton, 1993). arboricola Kellogg and Ferris, 1915 [Ano p1ura and Mallophaga of North American alticola Mishra and Bhat, 1972 [Oriental In v mammals, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., sects 6: 523]. no vol. no., p. 19]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Alticola roylei Gray SYNONYM: H oplopleura erratica arboricola (Rodentia: Muridae: Arvicolinae). Kellogg and Ferris: Ferris, 1921. TYPE LOCALJTY: India: Uttar Pradesh State, TYPE HOST: Tamias townsendii (Bachman) Pithoragarh District, Martoli. (Rodentia: Sciuridae). DISTRIBUTION: India: Himachal Pradesh, Ut PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Tamias alpinus Merriam, tar Pradesh States. Pakistan. T. amoenus J. A. Allen, T. dorsalis Baird, v' andina Castro, 1981 [Rev. Soc. Entomol. Ar T. merriami J. A. Allen, T. minimus Bach gentina 40: 234]. man, T. ochrogenys (Merriam), T. quad TYPE HOST: Akodon olivaceus (Waterhouse) rivittatus (Say), T. speciosus Merriam, T. (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodontinae). townsendii (Rodentia: Sciuridae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: A. xanthorhinus (Water TYPE LOCALITY: USA: California, Marin house), A. olivaceus, Chroeomys andinus County, Inverness. (Philippi) (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodon DISTRIBUTION: Central and Western North tinae). America. TYPE LOCALITY: Chile: Concepcion. NOTES: These host species of chipmunk are DISTRIBUTION: Argentina, Chile. in the same subgenus, Neotamias, as op NOTES: Usually placed in the genus Akodon, posed to the Eastern North American chip the host species andinus is now considered munk (subgenus Tamias) and the Eurasian a member of Chroeomys (Musser and species (subgenus Eutamias) (Hoffmann et Carleton, 1993: 700). aI., 1993). 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 21 , argentina Werneck, 1937 [Mem. Inst. Os (Rodentia: Muridae: Dendromurinae) waldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro 32: 404]. (probably a misidentification for Tatera). SYNONYM: Hoplopleura ajjinis argentina PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Tatera brantsii (A. Smith), Werneck,1937. T. leucogaster(Peters) (Rodentia: Muridae: TYPE HOST: Reithrodon sp. (Rodentia: Mur Gerbillinae). idae: Sigmodontinae). TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Orange Free PRINCIPAL HOST: Reithrodon auritus (Fischer) State, Bothaville. (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodontinae). DISTRIBUTION: Botswana. Namibia. South TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina. Africa. Zimbabwe. DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. Patagonia. I, blanfordi Mishra and Dhanda, 1972 [J. Par NOTES: Castro (1980) stated that the type host asitol. 58: 393]. was Reithrodon physodes. See Musser and TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Cremnomys blan Carleton (1993: 740) about the use of au fordi (Thomas) (Rodentia: Muridae: Mu ritus instead of physodes. rinae). TYPE LOCALITY: India: Maharashtra State, arizonensis Stojanovich and Pratt, 1961 [J. Poona District, Gonaudi. Parasitol. 47: 313]. DISTRIBUTION: India: Karnataka, Maharash TYPE HOST: Sigmodon arizonae Mearns. (Ro tra, Mysore, Orissa States. dentia: Muridae: Sigmodontinae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Sigmodon hispidus Say and brasiliensis Werneck, 1932 [Mem. Inst. Os Ord, S. arizonae (Rodentia: Muridae: Sig waldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro 26: 235]. modontinae). TYPE HOST: "wild rat." TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Arizona, Pinal County, PRINCIPAL HOST: Oryzomys capito (Olfers) Sacaton. (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodontinae). DISTRIBUTION: Mexico. Venezuela. USA: Ar TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil: Goyaz State. izona. DISTRIBUTION: Brazil. Trinidad. NOTES: The type host was identified as Sig . calabyi Johnson, 1960 [Proc. Entomol. Soc. modon sp. collected at Sacaton in Pinal Washington 62: 112]. County, Arizona. Four species of Sigmo TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Pseudomys hig don are found in Arizona but S. arizonae ginsi (Trouessart) (Rodentia: Muridae: is the only species found in the Sacaton Murinae). region (Hoffmeister, 1986: 394). TYPE LOCALITY: Australia: Tasmania, Daw son Settlement. bidentata (Neumann, 1909) [Arch. Parasitol. DISTRIBUTION: Australia: Tasmania. 13: 515]. SYNONYMS: Haematopinus (Polyplax) biden . capensis Werneck, 1954 [Rev. Bras. BioI. 14: tatus Neumann, 1909. - Polyplax biden 111]. tatus (Neumann): Johnston and Harrison, SYNONYM: Hoplopleura desmodilli Paterson, 1913. 1954. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Hydromys chry TYPE HOST: Tatera sp. (Rodentia: Muridae: sogaster E. Geoffroy (Rodentia: Muridae: Gerbillinae). Murinae). PRINCIPAL HOST: Desmodillus auricularis (A. TYPE LOCALITY: South Australia: Lake Tor Smith) (Rodentia: Muridae: Gerbillinae). rens. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Cape Province, DISTRIBUTION: Australia: New South Wales, Hay District, Seepduik. South Australia, Tasmania. DISTRIBUTION: Botswana. Namibia. South NOTES: In the original description, the type Africa. host was misidentified as Rattus raltus. NOTES: Ledger (1980) discussed the type host of H. capensis. biseriata Ferris, 1921 [Contributions toward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part II, i captiosa Johnson, 1960 [U.S. Dep. Agric. Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. Tech. Bull. 1211: 23]. 2(2): 103]. SYNONYM: Hoplopleura musculi Wegner, TYPE HOST: Malacothrix typica (A. Smith) 1961. 22 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 TYPE HOST: Mus musculus Linnaeus (Roden socomus (Hoffmann) (Rodentia: Muridae: tia: Muridae: Murinae). Murinae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Mus booduga (Gray), M. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia: North Sulawesi, caroli Bonhote, M. spretus Lataste, M. Bolaang Mongondow Prov., Dumoga-Bone musculus (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). National Park. TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt: Western Desert Gov DISTRIBUTION: Indonesia: Sulawesi. ernorate, Royal Shooting Club, 3 mi N of \. colomydis Benoit, 1962 [Rev. Zool. Bot. Af Faiyum. ricaines 65: 50]. DISTRIBUTION: Probably cosmopolitan. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Colomys goslingi NOTES: All the host species are in the sub Thomas and Wroughton (Rodentia: Mur genus Mus (Musser and Carleton, 1993). idae: Murinae). One of the hosts has been identified as M. TYPE LOCALITY: Zaire: Kasai, Luluabourg. domesticus, a taxon now recognized as a DISTRIBUTION: Zaire. distinct species by some researchers or a subspecies of M. musculus by others. , confuciana Blagoveshtchensky, 1972 [Ento / mol. Rev. (Entomol. Obozr., USSR) 51: V chilensis Werneck, 1937 [Mem. Inst. Oswal 185]. do Cruz., Rio de Janeiro 32: 406]. TYPE HOST: Niviventer confucianus (Milne SYNONYM: Hoplopleura disgrega chilensis Edwards) (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). Werneck, 1937. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Niviventer fulvescens (Gray), TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Octodon degus N. confucianus (Rodentia: Muridae: Mu (Molina) (Rodentia: Octodontidae). rinae). TYPE LOCALITY: Chile. TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: DISTRIBUTION: Chile. Yunnan Prov., Ssumao (= Simao). ~ chippauxi Paulian and Pajot, 1966 [Bull. Soc. DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: Entomol. France 71: 41]. Guizhou, Yunnan Provs. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Arvicanthis sp. contigua Johnson, 1972 [Brigham Young (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). Univ. Sci. Bull., BioI. Ser. 17(5): 33]. PRINCIPAL HOST: Arvicanthis niloticus (Des TYPE HOST: Holochilus sciureus Wagner (Ro marest) (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). dentia: Muridae: Sigmodontinae). TYPE LOCALITY: Central African Republic: ·PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Holochilus brasiliensis Bangui. (Desmarest), H. sciureus, Sigmodon his DISTRIBUTION: Central African Republic. pidus Say and Ord (Rodentia: Muridae: Dahomey. Nigeria. Togo. Sigmodontinae). NOTES: Several species ofArvicanthis are rec TYPE LOCALITY: Venezuela: Trujillo, 30 km ognized but the genus needs systematic re NW of Valero (near El Dividive). vision. Currently, only A. niloticus is DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. Venezuela. thought to occur in the geographic region NOTES: The type host was originally recorded outlined above (Musser and Carleton, as H olochilus brasiliensis from northeast 1993). ern Venezuela but populations of H 010- chrotomydis Ferris, 1921 [Contributions to chilus from that region are now identified ward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part as H. sciureus, which may be a composite II, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. of species. The range of H. brasiliensis in Sci. 2(2): 81]. cludes southeast Brazil, Uruguay, and TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Chrotomys whi eastcentral Argentina, but not Venezuela teheadi Thomas (Rodentia: Muridae: Mu (Musser and Carleton, 1993: 705). rinae). cooki Kim, 1965 [J. Parasitol. 51: 886]. TYPE LOCALITY: Philippines: Benguet, Irisan. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Calomys callosus DISTRIBUTION: Philippines: Luzon. (Rengger) (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodon chrysocomi Durden, 1990 [J. Med. Entomol. tinae). 27: 270]. TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina: Joya. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Bunomys chry- DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. Bolivia. 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 23 cornata Kim, 1972 [Pac. Insects 14: 675]. possibly D. kivu Thomas (Rodentia: Mur TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Rattus sordidus idae: Dendromurinae). (Gould) (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya: Kaimosi. TYPE LOCALITY: Australia: Queensland, Cape DISTRIBUTION: Kenya. Zaire. York Peninsula, Kowanyama. NOTES: The type host was originally recorded DISTRIBUTION: Australia: Queensland. as Dendromus mesomelas insignis but in cricetuli Ferris, 1951 [Mem. Pac. Coast En sign is is a distinct species (Musser and Carleton, 1993: 542). The host specimen tomol. Soc. 1: 134]. from Zaire was recorded as Dendromus in TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Tscherskia triton de Winton (Rodentia: Muridae: Cricetin signis kivu. If the host was correctly iden ae). tified as kivu, then it would be Dendromus TYPE LOCAliTY: People's Republic of China: kivu, a separate species. Because both D. Shaanxi Provo insignis and D. kivu are sympatric in east DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: em Zaire (Musser and Carleton, 1993: 542), Shaanxi Provo Taiwan. the host voucher specimens should be re examined to determine whether they are cryptica Ferris, 1921 [Contributions toward insignis or kivu. a monograph of the sucking lice, Part II, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. :diaphora Johnson, 1964 [Misc. Publ. Ento 2(2): 104]. mol. Soc. Am. 4: 75]. SYNONYM: Ctenopleura cryptica (Ferris): Ew TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Berylmys bowersi ing, 1929. (Anderson) (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Tatera valida (Bo- TYPE LOCALITY: Peninsular Malaysia: Ulu cage) (Rodentia: Muridae: Gerbillinae). Langat Forest Reserve. TYPE LOCAliTY: Uganda: Kikondu. DISTRIBUTION: Peninsular Malaysia. Viet DISTRIBUTION: Uganda. Zaire. nam. cutchicus Mishra and Kaul, 1973 [J. Med. difficilis Kim, 1965 [J. Parasitol. 51: 877]. Entomoi. 10: 43]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Peromyscus crin TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Cremnomys itus (Merriam) (Rodentia: Muridae: Sig cutchicus Wroughton (Rodentia: Muridae: modontinae). Murinae). TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Utah, Tooele County. TYPE LOCALITY: India: Rajasthan State, Si DISTRIBUTION: Mexico. USA: Utah. rohi District, Baneshwar (Bar ka Ghat). DISTRIBUTION: India: Rajasthan State. : disgrega Ferris, 1921 [Contributions toward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part II, . delticola Castro, 1982 [Rev. Soc. Entomol. Stanford Univ. Pubi. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci . Argentina 41: 178]. 2(2): 132]. TYPE HOST: Mus musculus Linnaeus (Roden- SYNONYMs: Ferrisella disgrega (Ferris): Ew tia: Muridae: Murinae). ing, 1929. - Hoplopleura disgrega disgre TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina: Delta del Parana. ga Ferris: Wemeck, 1937. PRINCIPAL HOST: Unknown. ! TYPE HOST: Octodontomys gliroides (Gervais DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. and d'Orbigny) (Rodentia: Octodontidae). NOTES: Because the type host is cosmopolitan PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Octodon degus (Molina), O. but H. delticola has only been reported from gliroides (Rodentia: Octodontidae). Argentina, we assume that the true host of TYPE LOCALITY: Bolivia: Orura. this louse is a South American sigmodon DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. Bolivia. Chile. tine rodent. 'dissicula Johnson, 1964 [Misc. Publ. Ento dendromuris Johnson, 1962 [Proc. Entomol. mol. Soc. Am. 4: 72]. Soc. Washington 64: 155]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Sundamys muel TYPE HOST: Dendromus insignis (Thomas) leri (Jentink) (Rodentia: Muridae: Muri (Rodentia: Muridae: Dendromurinae). nae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Dendromus insignis and TYPE LOCALITY: Peninsular Malaysia: Selan- 24 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 gor, Pahang Road, 35 mi N of Kuala Lum PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Clethrionomys glareolus pur. (Schreber), C. rujocanus (Sundevall), c. ru DISTRIBUTION: Borneo. Peninsular Malaysia. titus, Eothenomys melanogaster (Milne NOTES: The collections at the National Mu Edwards) (Rodentia: Muridae: Arvicoli seum of Natural History contain speci nae). mens of H. dissicula that are labeled as TYPE LOCALITY: Russian Federation: Kron having been collected in Nepal from Ni stadt (= Kronshtadt). viventer eha (Wroughton) (Rodentia: Mur DISTRIBUTION: Eurasia. idae: Murinae). !- emphereia Kim, 1965 [J. Parasitoi. 51: 882]. ! dissimilis Blagoveshtchensky, 1972 [En to SYNONYM: Hoplopleura jerrisi emphereia mol. Rev. (Entomol. Obozr., USSR) 51: Kim, 1965. 186]. TYPE HOST: Peromyscus mexicanus (Saus TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Rattus turkestan sure) (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodontin icus (Satunin) (Rodentia: Muridae: Muri ae). nae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Megadontomys thomasi TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: (Merriam), Peromyscus guatemalensis Yunnan Prov., Ssumao (= Simao). Merriam, P. mega lops Merriam, P. mexi DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: canus (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodontin Yunnan Provo ae). NOTES: The type host was originally recorded TYPE LOCALITY: Panama: Chiriqui Prov., El as Rattus losea celsus. The subspecies name Hato, lava flow. identifies populations of Rattus turkestan DISTRIBUTION: Guatemala. Mexico. Nicara icus from Yunnan and Guangdong prov gua. Panama. inces. If correctly identified as celsus, the NOTES: Hoplopleura emphereia was original host is R. turkestanicus and not R. losea, ly described as a subspecies of H. jerrisi by which has not been recorded in China that Kim (1965) but was elevated to species rank far west (see Musser and Carleton, 1993, by Johnson (1972b). and references cited there). We have not Venormis Kellogg and Ferris, 1915 [Ann. Dur seen the specimens from which the type ban Mus. 1: 155]. louse samples were obtained. SYNONYM: Hoplopleura enormis enormis distorta Ferris, 1921 [Contributions toward Kellogg and Ferris: Ferris, 1921. a monograph of the sucking lice, Part II, TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Lemniscomys ros Stanford Univ. Pubi. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. alia (Thomas) (Rodentia: Muridae: Muri 2(2): 115]. nae). TYPE HOST: Originally recorded as Rhinos TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Natal, Mfon ciurus sp. (Ferris, 1921) but this was later gosi. cited as a misidentification, with the type DISTRIBUTION: Mozambique. South Africa. host actually being Tamiops swinhoei NOTES: The type host was recorded as Lem (Milne-Edwards) as outlined by Hopkins niscomys griselda but that species is known (1949) and Ferris (1951). only from Angola. Lemniscomys rosalia, PRINCIPAL HOST: Tamiops swinhoei (Roden which was once included within griselda, tia: Sciuridae). is the species with the greater geographic TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: distribution, ranging from Namibia through Hsing-lung-shan (65 miles NE of Beijing). South Africa, Mozambique and north to DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: southern Kenya (Musser and Carleton, Hebei, Shandong Provs. 1993: 602). \/ edentula Fahrenholz, 1916 [Arch. Naturges., \ erismata Ferris, 1921 [Contributions toward Abt. A 81: 26]. a monograph of the sucking lice, Part II, SYNONYM: H oplopleura acanthopus edentu Stanford Univ. Pubi. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. Ius Fahrenholz, 1916. 2(2): 113]. TYPE HOST: Clethrionomys rutilis (Pallas) TYPE HOST: Callosciurus finlaysonii (Hors (Rodentia: Muridae: Arvicolinae). field) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 25 PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Callosciurus caniceps PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Oxymycterus paramensis (Gray), C. erythraeus (Pallas), C.finlayson Thomas, O. roberti Thomas, o. rufus (Fi ii, C. inomatus (Gray), C. nigrovittatus scher), O. hispidus (Rodentia: Muridae: (Horsfield), C. pygerythrus (1. Geoffroy) Sigmodontinae). (Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil: Santa Catarina State, TYPE LOCALITY: Southeastern Thailand. Humboldt. DISTRIBUTION: Burma. India: Punjab. Nepal. DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. Brazil. Uruguay. Peninsular Malaysia. People's Republic of ,/funambuli Bilquees, 1976 [Pakistan J. Zool. China: Yunnan Prov. Thailand. 8: 43]. NOTES: The type host was originally recorded TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Funambulus pen as Callosciurus ferrugeneus, which is now nantii Wroughton (Rodentia: Sciuridae). considered part of C. finlaysonii (Hoff TYPE LOCALITY: Pakistan: Karachi. mann et aI., 1993: 422). DISTRIBUTION: Pakistan. erratica (Osborn, 1896) [U.S. Dep. Agric., . griseoflavae Castro, 1980 [Rev. Soc. Ento Div. Entomol., Bull. (new series) 5: 186]. mol. Argentina 39: 11]. SYNONYMS: Haematopinus erraticus Osborn, TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Graomys griseo 1896. - Hoplopleura erratica erratica (Os f/avus (Waterhouse) (Rodentia: Muridae: born): Ferris, 1921. Sigmodontinae). TYPE HOST: "Gull." TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina: Catamarca Prov., PRINCIPAL HOST: Tamias striatus (Linnaeus) Antofagasta. (Rodentia: Sciuridae). DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Iowa. DISTRIBUTION: Eastern North America. gyomydis Kuhn and Ludwig, 1967 [Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 13, 9: 660 (1966)]. eximaJohnson, 1972 [Brigham YoungUniv. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Pseudomys fu Sci. Bull., BioI. Ser. 17(5): 27]. meus (Brazenor) (Rodentia: Muridae: Mu TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Chibchanomys rinae). trichotis (Thomas) (Rodentia: Muridae: TYPE LOCALITY: Australia: Victoria, Gram Sigmodontinae). pians, Silverband Falls. TYPE LOCALITY: Venezuela: Tachira, 35 km DISTRIBUTION: Australia: Victoria. S, 22 km W of San Cristobal (Buena Vista). DISTRIBUTION: Venezuela. ! handleyi Johnson, 1972 [Brigham Young NOTES: See Musser and Carleton (1993: 699) Univ. Sci. Bull., BioI. Ser. 17(5): 25]. for a summary of the different generic al TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Neacomys ten locations of the host trichotis. uipes Thomas (Rodentia: Muridae: Sig modontinae). ferrisi Cook and Beer, 1959 [J. Parasitol. 45: TYPE LOCALITY: Venezuela: Dto. Federal, 3 408]. km N of Caracas, Los Venados. SYNONYM: H oplopleuraferrisi ferrisi Cook and DISTRIBUTION: Venezuela. Beer: Kim 1965. TYPE HOST: Peromyscus boylii (Baird) (Ro vhesperomydis (Osborn, 1891) [U.S. Dep. dentia: Muridae: Sigmodontinae). Agric., Div. Entomol., Bull. (old series) 7: PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Peromyscus dif.ficilis (J. A. 26]. Allen), P. eremicus (Baird), P. levipes Mer SYNONYMS: Haematopinus hesperomydis Os riam, P. nasutus (J. A. Allen), P. spicilegus born, 1891. - Hoplopleura hesperomydis J. A. Allen, P. boylii (Rodentia: Muridae: occidentalis Kellogg and Ferris, 1915 (re Sigmodontinae). ported by Ferris, 1951, as a label error in TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Arizona, Portal. plate 4, fig. 2). DISTRIBUTION: Mexico. Southwestern USA. TYPE HOST: Peromyscus leucopus (Rafin esque) (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodontin fonsecai Werneck, 1934 [Mem. Inst. Oswal- ae). do Cruz, Rio de Janeiro 27: 412]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Ochrotomys nuttalli (Har TYPE HOST: Oxymycterus hispidus Pictet (Ro lan), Peromyscus califomicus (Gambel), P. dentia: Muridae: Sigmodontinae). gossypinus (Le Conte), P. leucopus, P. 26 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 maniculatus (Wagner), P. melanotis J. A. TYPE WCALITY: USA: North Carolina, Ra Allen and Chapman, P. oreas Bangs, P. leigh. polionotus (Wagner), P. sitkensis Merriam, DISTRIBUTION: North, Central, and South P. truei (Shufeldt) (Rodentia: Muridae: Sig America. modontinae). TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Iowa, Ames. v hispida (Grube, 1851) [Middendortrs Reise, DISTRIBUTION: North America including Parasiten, p. 497]. Mexico. SYNONYMs: Pediculus hispidus Grube, 1851. NOTES: Ferris (1951) recorded lice that he - Haematopinus hispidus (Grube): Gie assigned to H. hesperomydis from South bel, 1874. - Polyplax hispida (Grube): En America, Turkestan, and the People's Re derlein, 1904. public of China. However, Kim (1965) re TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Lemmus sibiricus vised the "H. hesperomydis complex" and (Kerr) (Rodentia: Muridae: Arvicolinae). included only North American specimens TYPE WCALITY: Russian Federation: Siberia, as true H. hesperomydis. Taimyrsee. DISTRIBUTION: Russian Federation: Siberia, v himalayana Mishra, Kulkarni and Bhat, 1973 Yamal Peninsula. [Oriental Insects 7: 501]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Apodemus sp. l hybomyis Kim and Emerson, 1973 [Rev. (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). Zool. Bot. Africaines 87: 429]. TYPE WCALITY: India: Himachal Pradesh TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Hybomys trivir State, Keylong. gatus (Temminck) (Rodentia: Muridae: DISTRIBUTION: India: Jammu and Kashmir, Murinae). Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh States TYPE LOCALITY: Nigeria: Federal District, (at high altitude). University of Lagos. NOTES: The type host was identified as Apo DISTRIBUTION: Nigeria. demus jlavicollis (Melchior), and in the 1970s that species was thought to extend imparata Linardi, Teixeira, and Botelho, 1984 all the way east to northern India. True [Rev. Bras. BioI. 44: 533]. jlavicollis, however, does not occur east of TYPE HOST: Bolomys lasiurus (Lund) (Roden the Urals in the north or Syria in the south, tia: Muridae: Sigmodontinae). and the populations in northern India are PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Akodon cursor (Winge), B. different species, A. rusiges Miller and A. lasiurus (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodon wardi (Wroughton) (see Musser and Carle tinae). ton, 1993, and references cited there). The TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil: Minas Gerais State, type host of himalayana is likely one of Juiz de Fora. these species of Apodemus. DISTRIBUTION: Brazil. himenezumi Kaneko, 1956 [Bull. Tokyo Med. inagakii Ono and Hasegawa, 1955 [Med. BioI. Dent. Univ. 3: 143]. 36: 195]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Apodemus argen TYPE HOST: Clethrionomys rufocanus (Sun teus (Temminck) (Rodentia: Muridae: Mu devall) (Rodentia: Muridae: Arvicolinae). rinae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Clethrionomys rutilus (Pal TYPE LOCALITY: Japan: Tochigi Prefecture, las), C. rufocanus, Phaulomys andersoni Nikko City. (Thomas), P. smithii (Thomas) (Rodentia: DISTRIBUTION: Japan. Muridae: Arvicolinae). TYPE LOCALITY: Japan: Hokkaido. hirsuta Ferris, 1916 [Psyche 23: 112]. DISTRIBUTION: Japan. TYPE HOST: Sigmodon hispidus Say and Ord (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodontinae). indiscreta Johnson, 1972 [Brigham Young PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Sigmodon arizonae Mearns, Univ. Sci. Bull., BioI. Ser. 17(5): 22]. S. hispidus, S. ochrognathus Bailey, S. pe TYPE HOST: Aepeomys lugens (Thomas) (Ro ruanus J. A. Allen (Rodentia: Muridae: dentia: Muridae: Sigmodontinae). Sigmodontinae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Thomasomys laniger (Tho- 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 27 mas), A. lugens (Rodentia: Muridae: Sig > inusitata Johnson, 1972 [Brigham Young modontinae). Univ. Sci. Bull., BioI. Ser. 17(5): 54]. TYPE LOCALITY: Venezuela: Merida, 5 km E, TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Echimys semivil 1 km S of Tabay. losus (I. Geoffroy) (Rodentia: Echimyidae). DISTRIBUTION: Venezuela. TYPE LOCALITY: Venezuela: Lara, 10 km N NOTES: Both host genera are in the same tribe of El Tocuyo. (Thomasomyini). DISTRIBUTION: Venezuela. inexpectansJohnson, 1960 [U.S. Dep. Agric. irritans Kuhn and Ludwig, 1967 [Ann. Mag. Tech. Bull. 1211: 20]. Nat. Hist. Ser. 13, 9: 664 (1966)]. TYPE HOST: Praomys delectorum (Thomas) TYPE HOST: Rattusjuscipes Waterhouse (Ro (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). dentia: Muridae: Murinae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Myomys albipes (Ruppell), PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Rattus lutreolus Gray, R. Praomys delectorum, P. jacksoni (De Win juscipes (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). ton), P. tullbergi (Thomas) (Rodentia: TYPE LOCALITY: Australia: Victoria, Olsen's Muridae: Murinae). Bridge. TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya: Kikuyu, Muguga DISTRIBUTION: Australia: New South Wales, North. Tasmania, Victoria, Queensland. DISTRIBUTION: Angola. Central African Re pUblic. Congo. Kenya. Nigeria. Rwanda. ismailiae Johnson, 1972 [Proc. Entomoi. Soc. Zaire. Washington 74: 334]. ingens Castro, 1982 [Rev. Soc. Entomoi. Ar TYPE HOST: Mastomys natalensis (A. Smith) gentina 41: 176]. (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Calomys muscu PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Mastomys natalensis, My linus (Thomas) (Rodentia: Muridae: Sig omys albipes (Ruppell) (Rodentia: Muri modontinae). dae: Murinae). TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina: Mendoza Prov. TYPE LOCALITY: Sudan: Upper Nile Prov., DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. Khor Adar, Paloich. DISTRIBUTION: Ethiopia. Sudan. Zaire . . intermedia Kellogg and Ferris, 1915 [Ann. NOTES: The host identification of M astomys Durban Mus. 1: 153]. natalensis from Sudan and Zaire should be TYPE HOST: Mastomys coucha (Smith) (Ro reevaluated when a systematic revision of dentia: Muridae: Murinae). Mastomys becomes available (see Musser PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Mastomys erythroleucus and Carleton, 1993: 609, for a discussion (Temminck), M. natalensis (Smith), M. of the problem). coucha, Praomys delectorum (Thomas), P. tullbergi (Thomas), P. jacksoni (De Win ~ johnsonae Kim, 1966 [Parasitology 56: 604]. ton) (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). TYPE HOST: Mus cervicolor Hodgson (Roden TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Natal, Mfon tia: Muridae: Murinae). gosi. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Mus caroli Bonhote, M. pa DISTRIBUTION: Botswana. Central African hari Thomas, M. cervicolor (Rodentia: Republic. Congo. Dahomey. Kenya. Li Muridae: Murinae). beria. Mozambique. Nigeria. Rwanda. TYPE LOCALITY: Thailand: Chaiyaphum South Africa. Sudan. Tanzania. Togo. Prov., Phukheio, Ban Lat. Uganda. Zaire. Zimbabwe. DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: NOTES: Records of H. intermedia from Japan Guizhou Provo Thailand. reported by Kaneko (1955, 1959) are con NOTES: The host species are in two subgenera sidered to be erroneous. Mastomys re of Mus: subgenus Mus (M. caroli and M. quires systematic revision (Musser and cervicolor), and subgenus Coelomys (M. Carleton, 1993: 609), and until that is pahari) (Musser and Carleton, 1993: 623). available the host identifications ofcoucha, natalensis, and erythroleucus should be I karachiensisKhanum, 1983 [PakistanJ.Zooi. considered tentative at best. 15: 45]. 28 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Funambulus pen TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Micromys minu- nantii Wroughton (Rodentia: Sciuridae). tus (Pallas) (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). TYPE LOCALITY: Pakistan: Sind Prov., Kara TYPE LOCALITY: England: Essex, Colchester. chi. DISTRIBUTION: Eurasia. DISTRIBUTION: Pakistan. NOTES: Kristofik and Lysy (1992) noted that while Hoplopleura longula is a specialized V khandala Mishra, 1981 [Rec. Zool. Surv. In ectoparasite ofMicromys minutus, they also dia, Misc. Publ., Occas. Pap. 21: 38]. found it on the vole Clethrionomys glar TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Golunda ellioti eolus. Gray (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). TYPE LOCALITY: India: Maharashtra State, ~ malabarica Werneck, 1954 [Rev. Bras. BioI. Poona District, Khandala. 14: 113]. DISTRIBUTION: India: Maharashtra State. TYPE HOST: Bandicota indica (Bechstein) (Ro dentia: Muridae: Murinae). rkitti Kim, 1968 [Parasitology 58: 701]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Bandicota bengalensis TYPE HOST: Berylmys berdmorei (Blyth) (Ro (Gray and Hardwicke), B. savilei Thomas, dentia: Muridae: Murinae). B. indica (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Berylmys bowersi (Ander TYPE LOCALITY: Sri Lanka: Colombo. son), B. berdmorei, Leopoldamys edwardsi DISTRIBUTION: India: West Bengal. Sri Lan (Thomas) (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). ka. Thailand. TYPE LOCALITY: Thailand: Prachin Buri. NOTES: Johnson's (1959) Thailand louse DISTRIBUTION: Laos. Peninsular Malaysia. samples collected from "Bandicota sp.," People's Republic ofChina: Guizhou Provo "Bandicota indica ssp.," and "Bandicota Thailand. bengalensis ssp." are actually from B. in dica and B. savilei. Bandicota bengalensis kondana Mishra, 1981 [Rec. Zool. Surv. In has never been taken in Thailand (Musser dia, Misc. Publ., Occas. Pap. 21: 42]. and Carleton, 1993: 578); in our experi TYPE HOST: Millardia kondana Mishra and ence, all the published references to Thai Dhanda (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). B. bengalensis have turned out to be either PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Millardia meltada (Gray), B. savilei or young B. indica. M. kondana (Rodentia: Muridae: Muri ~ malaysiana Ferris, 1921 [Contributions to nae). ward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part TYPE LOCALITY: India: Maharashtra State, II, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. Poona District, Sinhgarh. Sci. 2(2): 79]. DISTRIBUTION: India: Jammu and Kashmir, SYNONYM: Ferrisella malaysiana (Ferris): Maharashtra, Rajasthan States. Pakistan. Ewing, 1929. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Leopoldamys sa laticeps Ferris, 1921 [Contributions toward banus (Thomas) (Rodentia: Muridae: Mu a monograph of the sucking lice, Part II, rinae). Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. TYPE LOCALITY: Malaysia: Lankavi Island (= 2(2): 92]. Langkawi Island, Malacca Straits). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Hybomys univit DISTRIBUTION: Peninsular Malaysia and off tatus (Peters) (Rodentia: Muridae: Muri shore islands. nae). TYPE LOCALITY: West Africa: Benito River (= I. maniculata (Neumann, 1909) [Arch. Parasi Equatorial Guinea). tol. 13: 521]. DISTRIBUTION: Central African Republic. SYNONYMS: Haematopinus (Polyplax) man Equatorial Guinea. Rwanda. Zaire. iculatus Neumann, 1909. - Hoplopleura mitsuii Kaneko, 1963. vlongula (Neumann, 1909) [Arch. Parasitol. TYPE HOST: Funambulus palmarum (Linnae 13: 513]. us) (Rodentia: Sciurdae). SYNONYMS: Haematopinus (Polyplax) lon PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Funambulus pennantii gulus Neumann, 1909. - Hoplopleura /i Wroughton, F. tristriatus (Waterhouse), F. neata Fahrenholz, 1910. palmarum (Rodentia: Sciuridae). 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 29 TYPE LOCALITY: India: Rajkote. I minasensis Linardi, Teixeira, and Botelho, DISTRIBUTION: India. Nepal. Pakistan. Sri 1984 [Rev, Bras. BioI. 44: 525]. Lanka. TYPE HOST: Oligoryzomys eliurus (Wagner) (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodontinae). mastacomydis Kuhn and Ludwig, 1967 [Ann. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Bolomys lasiurus (Lund), Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 13, 9: 667 (1966)]. O. eliurus (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodon TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Pseudomysfuscus tinae). (Thomas) (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil: Minas Gerais State, TYPE LOCALITY: Australia: Tasmania, Mt. Juiz de Fora, Po~o D'Antas Reserve. Kate. DISTRIBUTION: Brazil. DISTRIBUTION: Australia: New South Wales, NOTES: The type host was originally identi Tasmania. fied as Oryzomys utiaritensis but that is a NOTES: The type host was originally reported synonym of Oligoryzomys eliurus (Musser as Mastacomys fuscus but that species has and Carleton, 1993: 717). now been placed in Pseudomys (Musser and Carleton, 1993: 646). vminuta Castro, 1981 [Neotropica 27: 134]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Akodon cursor • mendeziJohnson, 1972 [Great Basin Nat. 32: (Winge) (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodon 132]. tinae). TYPE HOST: Oryzomys sp. (Rodentia: Muri TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina: Misiones Prov., dae: Sigmodontinae). San Pedro. TYPE LOCALITY: Panama: Chiriqui Prov., DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. Bambito, EI Hato. ~ misionalis Castro, 1988 [Rev. Iber. Parasitoi. DISTRIBUTION: Panama. 48: 68]. NOTES: Johnson (1972a) noted that the type TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Akodon cursor host could be either Oryzomys alfaroi (1. (Winge) (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodon A. Allen) or O. albigularis (Tomes) (= O. tinae). devius Bangs in Panama). TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina: Misiones Prov., San Pedro. . mendozana Castro, 1984 [Rev. Soc. Entomoi. DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. Argentina 43: 160]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Graomys griseo ,mulleri Paterson, 1954 [Rev. Ecuatoriana f/avus (Waterhouse) (Rodentia: Muridae: Entomoi. Parasitoi. 2: 220]. Sigmodontinae). TYPE HOST: Gerbillurus paeba (A. Smith) (Ro TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina: Mendoza Prov., dentia: Muridae: Gerbillinae). Santa Rosa, Nacunan. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Gerbil/urus vallinus (Tho- DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. mas), G. paeba (Rodentia: Muridae: Ger billinae). meridionidis Ferris, 1921 [Contributions to TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Cape Prov., ward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part Clanwilliam. II, Stanford Univ. Pubi. Univ. Ser., BioI. DISTRIBUTION: Botswana. Namibia. South Sci. 2(2): 98]. Africa. TYPE HOST: Meriones meridian us (Pallas) (Rodentia: Muridae: Gerbillinae). "multilobata Wemeck, 1954 [Rev. Bras. BioI. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Meriones unguiculatus 14: 109]. (Milne-Edwards), M. tamariscinus (Pal TYPE HOST: Proechimys iheringi Thomas v las), M. libycus Lichtenstein, M. crassus (Rodentia: Echimyidae). Sundevall, M. meridian us (Rodentia: Mur PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Microryzomys minutus idae: Gerbillinae). (Tomes), Oecomys trinitatis (1. A. Allen TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: and Chapman), Oryzomys albigularis Shaanxi Provo (Tomes) (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodon DISTRIBUTION: Iran. Pakistan. People's Re tinae). public of China: Shaanxi Prov. Russian TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil: Espirito Santo State, Federation. Tajikistan. Santa Teresa. 30 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 DISTRIBUTION: Brazil. Colombia. Venezuela. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Nesoryzomys indefessus NOTES: The holotype louse specimen from P. (Thomas), N. narboroughi, Zygodontomys iheringi evidently represented a straggler brevicauda (J. A. Allen and Chapman), infestation. Oryzomys buccinatus (Olfers), O. talaman cae J. A. Allen, O. xantheolus Thomas, Oli musseri Durden, 1990 [J. Med. Entomol. 27: goryzomys fulvescens (Saussure), Microry 276]. zomys minutus (Tomes) (Rodentia: TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Maxomys mus Muridae: Sigmodontinae). schenbroekii (Jentink) (Rodentia: Muridae: TYPE LOCALITY: Ecuador: Galapagos Islands. Murinae). DISTRIBUTION: Ecuador: Galapagos Islands. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia: North Sulawesi, Mexico. Panama. Paraguay. Peru. Trini Bolaang Mongondow Prov., near Danau dad. Venezuela. (= Lake) Moajat. DISTRIBUTION: Indonesia: Sulawesi. I neumanni Fahrenholz, 1919 [Jahrb. Nieder mylomydis Ferris, 1921 [Contributions to sachs. Zool. Vereins Hannover 2-4: 26]. ward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part SYNONYMS: Haematopinus praecitus Neu II, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. mann, 1902 (partim) (misspelling for prae Sci. 2(2): 97]. cisus). - Haematopinus praecisus Neu SYNONYM: Hoplopleura enormis mylomydis mann, 1903 (partim). Ferris, 1921. TYPE HOST: "Gros rats." TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Mylomys dy PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Tatera nigricauda (Peters), bowskii (Pousargues) (Rodentia: Muridae: T. robusta (Cretzschmar), T. leucogaster Murinae). (Peters) (Rodentia: Muridae: Gerbillinae). TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya: Kaimosi. TYPE LOCALITY: Abyssinia (= Ethiopia). DISTRIBUTION: Kenya. DISTRIBUTION: Ethiopia. Kenya. Mozam bique. Tanzania. \ myomyis Kim and Emerson, 1973 [Rev. Zool. Bot. Africaines 87: 433]. ochotonae Ferris, 1922 [Contributions to TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Myomys daltoni ward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part (Thomas) (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). III, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. TYPE LOCALITY: Nigeria: Northern Region, Sci. 2(3): 142]. Panisau. SYNONYM: Ferrisella ochotonae (Ferris): Ew DISTRIBUTION: Dahomey. Ivory Coast. Ni ing, 1929. geria. TYPE HOST: Ochotona cansus Lyon (Lago NOTES: One of the louse records was from morpha: Ochotonidae). Myomys fumatus (Peters) but that species PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Ochotona hyperborea (Pal does not occur in the geographic region las), O. roylei (Ogilby), O. daurica (Pallas), outlined above. Myomys daltoni is the spe O. alpina (Pallas), O. thibetana (Milne-Ed cies found in those countries (Musser and wards), o. cansus (Lagomorpha: Ochoton Carleton, 1993: 631). idae). nasvikae Kim and Emerson, 1968 [Rev. Zool. TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: Bot. Africaines 78: 14]. Taochao. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Malacomys lon DISTRIBUTION: Afghanistan. Kyrgyzstan. gipes Milne-Edwards (Rodentia: Muridae: Mongolia. Nepal. People's Republic of Murinae). China. Russian Federation: Chita Oblast, TYPE LOCALITY: Zaire: Bugamando. Pripolar Ural, Urkutsk Oblast. Tajikistan. DISTRIBUTION: Zaire. v oenomydis Ferris, 1921 [Contributions to v nesoryzomydis Ferris, 1921 [Contributions ward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part toward a monograph of the sucking lice, II, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. Part II, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., Sci. 2(2): 82]. BioI. Sci. 2(2): 90]. TYPE HOST: Oenomys hypoxanthus (Pucher TYPE HOST: Nesoryzomys narboroughi Heller an) (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodontinae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Grammomys dryas (Tho- 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 31 mas), Oenomys hypoxanthus, o. ornatus '/oryzomydis Pratt and Lane, 1951 [J. Parasi Thomas (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). tol. 37: 141]. TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya: Molo. TYPE HOST: Oryzomys palustris (Harlan) (Ro DISTRIBUTION: Central African Republic. dentia: Muridae: Sigmodontinae). Congo. Kenya. Liberia. Zaire. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Oryzomys couesi (Alston), NOTES: For many years, Hoplopleura pacifica o. alfaroi (J. A. Allen), O. talamancae J. Ewing was treated as a synonym of H. oen A. Allen, O. palustris, Melanomys caligi omydis with the result that many records nosus (Tomes), Sigmodontomys alfari J. A. of Hoplopleura lice collected from domes Allen (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodontin tic Rattus from around the world were in ae). correctly recorded as H. oenomydis. John TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Georgia, Chatham son (1964, 1972c), Voss (1966), Durden County, Oatland Island. (1990) and others have since verified that DISTRIBUTION: Nicaragua. Panama. Southern these lice represent two distinct species. USA. Venezuela. ondatraria Teng, 1980 [Acta Zootaxonom. v.;xymycteri Ferris, 1921 [Contributions to Sinica 5: 72]. ward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part TYPE HOST: Ondatra zibethicus (Linnaeus) II, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. (Rodentia: Muridae: Arvicolinae). Sci. 2(2): 122]. TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: TYPE HOST: Oxymycterus paramensis Tho Hebei Provo mas (Rodentia; Muridae: Sigmodontinae). DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Oxymycterus akodontius Hebei Provo Thomas, O. paramensis (Rodentia: Muri NOTES: Ondatra zibethicus has been intro dae: Sigmodontinae). duced to China. Frequent studies in its na TYPE LOCALITY: Peru: Occabamba Pass. tive North America have failed to yield any DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. Peru. characteristic anopluran ectoparasites as sociated with this mammal. Therefore, we vpacifica Ewing, 1924 [Bishop Mus. Bull. 14: suggest that the true host of H. ondatraria 9]. is something other than O. zibethicus. TYPE HOST: Rattus exulans (Peale) (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). onychomydis Cook and Beer, 1959 [J. Par PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Rattus argentiventer (Rob asitol. 45: 407]. inson and Kloss), R. exuians, R. norvegicus TYPE HOST: Onychomys torridus (Coues) (Ro (Berkenhout), R. rattus (Linnaeus), R. ta dentia: Muridae: Sigmodontinae). nezumi Temminck, R. tiomanicus (Miller) PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Onychomys leucogaster (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). (Wied-Neuwied), O. torridus (Rodentia: TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Hawaiian Islands. Muridae: Sigmodontinae). DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan in tropical, TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Arizona, Portal. subtropical, and southern temperate zones. DISTRIBUTION: Western USA. NOTES: As noted above, H. pacifica previ ously was incorrectly considered to be a orinocoi Johnson, 1972 [Brigham Young synonym of H. oenomydis with the result Univ. Sci. Bull., BioI. Ser. 17(5): 57]. that many erroneous records of the latter TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Mesomys hispidus species parasitizing domestic Rattus in (Desmarest) (Rodentia: Echimyidae). various parts of the world have appeared TYPE LOCALITY: Venezuela: T. F. Amazonas, in the literature. ca. 84 km SSE of Esmeralda. DISTRIBUTION: Venezuela. l pahari Johnson, 1972 [Pac. Insects 14: 607]. NOTES: Woods (1993: 794) did not record any TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Mus pahari Tho species of Mesomys from Venezuela but mas (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). Handley (1976: 57) did record specimens TYPE LOCALITY: Laos: Stop 42, Ban Theuong, of M. hispidus from that country and it is 18 km NW of Xieng Khouang. from this sample that the lice were ob DISTRIBUTION: India: Assam, Sikkim. Laos. tained. People's Republic of China: Guizhou Provo 32 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 ~., patersoni Johnson, 1960 [U.S. Dep. Agric. DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon. Central African Tech. Bull. 1211: 31]. Republic. Congo. Dahomey. Kenya. Li TYPE HOST: Aethomys chrysophilus (De Win beria. Mozambique. Nigeria. Tanzania. ton) (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). Zaire. !. ::..' PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Aethomys kaiseri (Noack), 'phaiomydis Ferris [Contributions toward a A. namaquensis (A. Smith), A. chrysophilus monograph of the sucking lice, Part II, (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). Stanford Univ. Pubi. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Northern 2(2): 120]. Transvaal, Derry Malaria Camp. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Microtus leucurus DISTRIBUTION: Mozambique. Namibia. South (Blyth) (Rodentia: Muridae: Arvicolinae). Africa. Zaire. TYPE LOCALITY: Kashmir: East Ladakh. NOTES: Two species are contained in what is DISTRIBUTION: India: Jammu and Kashmir now recognized as Aethomys chrysophilus State. (Musser and Carleton, 1993: 567); which " of these is the actual type host is unknown. Vquadridentata (Neumann, 1909) [Arch. Par v/pavlovskyi Sosnina, 1951 [Doklady Akad. asitol. 13: 511]. Nauk SSR 77: 365]. SYNONYMS: Haematopinus (Polyplax) quad TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Rattus turkestan ridentatus Neumann, 1909. - H oplopleu icus (Satunin) (Rodentia: Muridae: Muri ra quadridentatus (Neumann): Kellogg and nae). Ferris, 1915. TYPE LOCALITY: Tajikistan: Varzob Region, TYPE HOST: Nectomys squamipes (Brants) Kondar Pass, Gazhni Kishlak. (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodontinae). lISTRIBUTION: Pakistan. Tajikistan. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Nectomys palmipes J. A. Allen and Chapman, N. squamipes, Oli pectinata (Cummings, 1913) [Bull. Entomoi. goryzomys fulvescens (Saussure), Oryzo Res. 4: 35]. mys rostratus Merriam, Scapteromys tum SYNONYMs: Polyplax pectinata Cummings, idus (Waterhouse) (Rodentia: Muridae: 1913. - Ctenura pectinata (Cummings): Sigmodontinae). Ewing, 1929. TYPE LOCALITY: "Haut Peru" (= High Peru). TYPE HOST: Maxomys surifer (Miller) (Ro DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. Mexico. Paraguay. dentia: Muridae: Murinae). Peru. Trinidad. Venezuela. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Maxomys alticola (Tho mas), M. rajah (Thomas), M. surifer, M. Vrajah Johnson, 1972 [J. Med. Entomoi. 9: whiteheadi (Thomas) (Rodentia: Muridae: 221]. Murinae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Maxomys surifer TYPE LOCALITY: Peninsular Malaysia: Biser (Miller) (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). at, Jalor. TYPE LOCALITY: Laos: Pakse. DISTRIBUTION: Borneo. Peninsular Malaysia. DISTRIBUTION: Laos. Thailand. ramgarh Mishra, Bhat, and Kulkarni, 1972 pelomydis Ferris, 1921 [Contributions to [Parasitology 65: 11]. ward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part TYPE HOST: Mus saxicola Elliot (Rodentia: II, Stanford Univ. Pubi. Univ. Ser., BioI. Muridae: Murinae). Sci. 2(2): 96]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Mus platythrix Bennett, M. SYNONYM: H oplopleura enormis pelomydis saxicola (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). Ferris, 1921. TYPE LOCALITY: India: Uttar Pradesh State, TYPE HOST: Pelomys fallax (Peters) (Roden Dehra Dun District, Ramgarh. tia: Muridae: Murinae). DISTRIBUTION: India: Maharashtra, Orissa, PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Lemniscomys rosalia (Tho Uttar Pradesh States. Pakistan. mas), L. striatus (Linnaeus), Pelomys cam NOTES: Both host species are in the same sub panae Huet, P. minor Cabrera and Ruxton, genus (Pyromys). P. fallax (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya: Summit Sagalla (= '. reducta Ferris, 1921 [Contributions toward a Saga1a Mountain Range). monograph of the sucking lice, Part II, 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 33 Stanford Univ. Pubi. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. DISTRIBUTION: Central African Republic. 2(2): 124]. Congo. Dahomey. Kenya. Mozambique. TYPE HOST: Auliscomys micropus (Water Rwanda. Zaire. house) (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodontin NOTES: All host species are in the same sub ae). genus (Nannomys). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Eligmodontia morgani Al len, Auliscomys pictus (Thomas), A. micro /sahyadri Mishra, 1981 [Rec. Zooi. Surv. In pus (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodontinae). dia, Misc. Pubi. Occas. Pap. 21: 57]. TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina: Valle del Lago TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Mus terricolor Blanco, Chubut. Blyth (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. Peru. TYPE LOCALITY: India: Maharashtra State, NOTES: Ferris (1951) incorrectly stated that Poona District, Sinhgarh. this louse had also been collected in Gua DISTRIBUTION: India: Maharashtra State. temala. Castro et ai. (1990) discussed the NOTES: The type host was originally identi host relationships of H. reducta. fied as Mus dunni but terricolor is an older name for the species (Musser and Carleton, • reithrodontomyis Ferris, 1951 [Mem. Pac. 1993: 629). Coast Entomoi. Soc. 1: 143]. TYPE HOST: Reithrodontomys sumichrasti i scapteromydis Ronderos, 1965 [Neotropica (Saussure) (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodon 11: 46]. tinae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Scapteromys tum PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Reithrodontomys chrysop idus (Waterhouse) (Rodentia: Muridae: sis Merriam, R. megalotis (Baird), R. sum Sigmodontinae). ichrasti (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodontin TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina: Buenos Aires ae). Prov., Castelli. TYPE LOCALITY: Guatemala: Todos Santos. DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. Uruguay. DISTRIBUTION: Guatemala. Costa Rica. Mex ico. Panama. Southwestern USA. o/sciuricola Ferris, 1921 [Contributions toward NOTES: All host species are in the subgenus a monograph of the sucking lice, Part II, Reithrodontomys (Musser and Carleton, Stanford Univ. Pubi. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. 1993). 2(2): 110]. TYPE HOST: Sciurus carolinensis Gmelin (Ro ,. rimae Johnson, 1972 [Brigham Young U niv. dentia: Sciuridae). Sci. Bull., BioI. Ser. 17(5): 17]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Sciurus aberti Woodhouse, TYPE HOST: Microryzomys minutus (Tomes) S. arizonensis Coues, S. carolinensis, S. (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodontinae). granatensis Humboldt, S. ignitus (Gray), PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Oryzomys albigularis S. igniventris Wagner, S. griseus Ord, S. (Tomes), M. minutus (Rodentia: Muridae: niger Linnaeus, S. spadiceus Olfers, Tam Sigmodontinae). iasciurus douglasii (Bachman), T. hud TYPE LOCALITY: Venezuela: Merida, 5 km S, sonicus (Erxleben) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). 7 km E of Tabay (near La Coromoto). TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Mississippi, Bayou St. DISTRIBUTION: Venezuela. Louis. rukenyae Ferris, 1921 [Contributions toward DISTRIBUTION: North, Central, and South a monograph of the sucking lice, Part II, America; introduced elsewhere (Europe, for Stanford Univ. Pubi. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. example) with S. carolinensis. 2(2): 86]. SYNONYM: Hoplopleura sukenyae Ferris, 1921 vScotinomydis Johnson, 1972 [Great Basin Nat. (misspelling emended by Ferris, 1951). 32: 125]. TYPE HOST: Mus triton (Thomas) (Rodentia: TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Scotinomys xer Muridae: Murinae). ampelinus (Bangs) (Rodentia: Muridae: PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Mus bufo (Thomas), M. Sigmodontinae). musculoides Temminck, M. triton (Roden TYPE LOCALITY: Panama: Chiriqui Prov., Bo tia: Muridae: Murinae). quete Trail, 3 mi (5 km) W of Cerro Punta. TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya: Mt. Rukenya. DISTRIBUTION: Panama. 34 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 sembeli Durden, 1990 [J. Med. Entomol. 27: TYPE LOCALITY: Laos: 18 km NW of Xieng 273]. Khouang. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Maxomys hell DISTRIBUTION: India: Himachal Pradesh, waldii (Jentink) (Rodentia: Muridae: Mu Karnataka, Maharashtra, Mysore States. rinae). Laos. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia: North Sulawesi, , similisKim, 1965 [J. Parasitol. 51: 884]. Bolaang Mongondow Prov., Dumoga-Bone TYPE HOST: Oligoryzomys fulvescens (Saus National Park. sure) (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodontin DISTRIBUTION: Indonesia: Sulawesi. ae). l setzeriJohnson, 1960 [U.S. Dep. Agric. Tech PRINcIPAL HOSTS: Calomys laucha (Olfers), Bull. 1211: 15]. C. callosus (Rengger), Oryzomys capito TYPE HOST: Grammomys macmillani (Olfers), Oligoryzomys microtis (J. A. Al (Wroughton) (Rodentia: Muridae: Muri len), O. fulvescens, O. vegetus (Bangs) (Ro nae). dentia: Muridae: Sigmodontinae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Grammomys dolichurus TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico: Vera Cruz, Orizaba. (Smuts), G. dryas (Thomas), G. macmillani DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. Bolivia. Mexico. (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). Panama. TYPE LOCALITY: Tanzania: Arusha, Tengeru. sinhgarh Mishra, Bhat, and Kulkarni, 1972 DISTRIBUTION: Congo. Kenya. Mozambique. [Parasitology 65: 17]. Rwanda. Tanzania. Zaire. TYPE HOST: Mus sp. (Rodentia: Muridae: Mu NOTES: We have not seen the host specimen rinae). from which the type of Hoplopleura setzeri PRINCIPAL HOST: Mus platythrix Bennett (Ro was obtained. Johnson recorded it as Rat dentia: Muridae: Murinae). tus (Grammomys) dolichurus oblitus. That TYPE LOCALITY: India: Maharashtra State, subspecies name is a synonym of Gram Poona District, Sinhgarh. momys macmillani (Musser and Carleton, DISTRIBUTION: India: Maharashtra State. 1993: 594). Definitions of species in Gram are unclear; any systematic revi momys l/ somereni Waterston, 1923 [Bull. Entomol. sion should include reexamination of the Res. 14: 99]. type host specimen of H. setzeri to deter TYPE HOST: Dasymys incomtus (Sundevall). mine its correct identity. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Dasymys rufulus Miller, D. v:sicata Johnson, 1964 [Misc. Publ. Entomol. incomtus (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). Soc. Am. 4: 73]. TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya: Wamia, Okedi Camp. TYPE HOST: Niviventer cremoriventer (Miller) DISTRIBUTION: Dahomey. Kenya. Liberia. (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). Mozambique. Nigeria. Zaire. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Niviventer eha (Wrough NOTES: What is now recognized as Dasymys ton), N. fulvescens (Gray), N. niviventer incomtus is probably a complex of several (Hodgson), N. cremoriventer, Rattus ar species (Musser and Carleton, 1993: 589). gentiventer (Robinson and Kloss), R. losea vspicula Blagoveshtchensky, 1972 [Entomol. (Swinhoe), R. turkestanicus (Satunin) (Ro Rev. (Entomol. Obozr., USSR) 51: 187]. dentia: Muridae: Murinae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Rattus turkestan TYPE LOCALITY: North Borneo (= Sabah): Mt. icus (Satunin) (Rodentia: Muridae: Muri Kinabalu, Tenompak. nae). DISTRIBUTION: Borneo. India: Jammu and TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: Kashmir, Sikkim, West Bengal States. Laos. Yunnan Prov., Ssumao (= Simao). Nepal. DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: / silvula Johnson, 1972 [Pac. Insects 14: 609]. Yunnan Provo SYNONYM: H oplopleura vandeleuria Mishra NOTES: The type host was originally recorded and Bhat, 1972. as Rattus losea celsus. If the identification TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Vandeleuria oler to celsus is correct, the host is Rattus tur acea (Bennett) (Rodentia: Muridae: Mu kestanicus of which celsus is a synonym. rinae). Rattus losea does not occur in Yunnan 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 35 (Musser and Carleton, 1993: 661). We have sus (1. A. Allen and Chapman), 0. trinitatis not seen the specimens from which the type (J. A. Allen and Chapman), Oligoryzomys lice were obtained. delticola Thomas, O.fulvescens (Saussure), O. flavescens (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmo spiculifer (Gervais, 1844) [In Walckenaer and dontinae). Gervais, Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil: Rio de Janeiro State, Apteres 3: 302]. Angra dos Reis. SYNONYMS: Pediculus spiculifer Gervais, DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. Brazil. Uruguay. 1844. - Haematopinus spiculijer (Ger Venezuela. vais): Giebel, 1874. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Lemniscomys i trispinosa Kellogg and Ferris, 1915 [Ano barbarus (Linnaeus) (Rodentia: Muridae: plura and Mallophaga of North American Murinae). mammals, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., TYPE LOCALITY: Algeria. no vol. no., p. 22]. DIsnuBUTION: Algeria. Morocco. Nigeria. SYNONYM: Euhoplopleura trispinosa (Kellogg Sudan. and Ferris): Ewing, 1929. • "urmanae Johnson, 1959 [Proc. U.S. Natl. TYPE HOST: Glaucomys sp. -designated by Mus. 110: 577]. Ferris (1951) as G. sabrinus (Shaw) (Ro TYPE HOST: Tamiops macclellandi (Horsfield) dentia: Sciuridae). (Rodentia: Sciuridae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Glaucomys volans (Linnae PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Tamiops rodolphei (Milne us), G. sabrinus (Rodentia: Sciuridae). Edwards), T. swinhoei (Milne-Edwards), T. TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Oregon, Brownsville. macclellandi, Menetes berdmorei (Blyth) DISTRIBUTION: North America. (Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE LOCALITY: Thailand: Loei, Dan Sai, Na j uromydis Kuhn and Ludwig, 1967 [Ann. Mag. Phung, Ban Khok, Namlang Mountain. Nat. Hist., Ser. 13, 9: 657 (1966)]. DIsTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Uromys caudi Guizhou, Yunnan Provs. Thailand. maculatus (Krefft) (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). tiptoniJohnson, 1972 [Brigham YoungUniv. TYPE LOCALITY: Australia: Queensland, In Sci. Bull., BioI Ser. 17(5): 24]. nisfail, Moresby Range. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Thomasomys lan DISTRIBUTION: Australia: Queensland. iger (Thomas) (Rodentia: Muridae: Sig modontinae). ! varia Castro, 1988 [Rev. Iber. Parasitol. 48: TYPE LOCALITY: Venezuela: Merida, 4 km S, 64]. 6.5 km E of Tabay (La Coromoto). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Akodon neocenus DISTRIBUTION: Venezuela. Thomas (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodon tinae) . • traubi Durden and Musser, 1991 [Am. Mus. TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina: Mendoza Prov., Novitates 3008: 2]. Lavalle, La Pega. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Maxomys wattsi DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. Musser (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). NOTES: The type host was identified as Ako TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia: Central Sulawesi, don varius but the locality from which Gunung Tambusisi, Tambusisi Damar. specimens were obtained (Mendoza Prov DISTRIBUTION: Indonesia: Sulawesi. ince) is within the geographic range of A. , travassosi Werneck, 1932 [Rev. Med.-Ci neocenus, which was once arranged as a rurg. Brasil 40: 345]. subspecies of A. varius (Musser and Carle SYNONYM: Hoplopleura torresi Ronderos and ton, 1993: 691). True A. varius has been Capri, 1966. restricted to western Bolivia. TYPE HOST: Oligoryzomys flavescens (Water house) (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodontin vveprecula Ferris, 1921 [Contributions toward ae). a monograph of the sucking lice, Part II, PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Calomys callosus (Reng Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. ger), c. laucha (Fischer), Oecomys specio- 2(2): 105]. 36 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 TYPE HOST: Tatera boehmi (Noack) (Roden Valata (Ferris, 1921) [Contributions toward a tia: Muridae: Gerbillinae). monograph of the sucking lice, Part II, PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Tatera valida (Bocage), T. Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. boehmi (Rodentia: Muridae: Gerbillinae). 2(2): 127]. TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya: South Guaso Nyiro SYNONYM: Hoplopleura alata Ferris, 1921. (= South Gwaso Nyiro). TYPE HOST: Microcavia australis (I. Geoffroy DISTRIBUTION: Dahomey. Kenya. Mozam and d'Orbigny) (Rodentia: Caviidae). bique. Zaire. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Cavia aperea Erxleben, M. australis (Rodentia: Caviidae). v~ietnamensis Blagoveshtchensky, 1972 [En TYPE LOCALITY: Patagonia: Upper Rio Chico. tomol. Rev. (Entomol. Obozr., USSR) 51: DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. Patagonia. 187]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Leopoldamys sa \i/audax (Ferris, 1921) [Contributions toward banus (Thomas) (Rodentia: Muridae: Mu a monograph of the sucking lice, Part II, rinae). Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. TYPE LOCALITY: Vietnam: Kha-Tu. 2(2): 125]. DISTRIBUTION: Vietnam. SYNONYM: H oplopleura audax Ferris, 1921. /// TYPE HOST: Proechimys semispinosus (Tomes) vzelotomydisJohnson, 1960 [U.S. Dep. Agric. (Rodentia: Echimyidae). Tech. Bull. 1211: 28]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: H oplomys gymnurus (Tho TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Zelotomys hild mas), Proechimys cayennensis Desmarest, egardeae (Thomas) (Rodentia: Muridae: P. mincae (J. A. Allen), P. oris Thomas, P. Murinae). semispinosus (Rodentia: Echimyidae). TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya: Mt. Rukenya. TYPE LOCALITY: Northern Ecuador: San Ja DISTRIBUTION: Kenya. Zaire. vier. PARADOXOPHTHIRUS Chin, 1989 [J. DISTRIBUTION: Brazil. Colombia. Ecuador. Guiyang Med. ColI. 14: 251]. Nicaragua. Panama. 1 species in genus. NOTES: One of the hosts was originally re TYPE OF GENUS: P. emarginata. corded as Proechimys guyannensis but cay HOSTS: Rodentia: Sciuridae. ennensis is the proper name for the species. NOTES: This genus shares characteristics of Hoplomys and Proechimys are phyloge both hoplopleurid and polyplacid lice; Chin netically very closely related (Woods, 1993: (1989) advocated transferring the genus to .794). the latter family. l imitans Werneck, 1942 [Rev. Bras. BioI. 2: 317]. t/ emarginata (Ferris, 1922) [Contributions to SYNONYM: Hoplopleura imitans (Werneck): ward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part Johnson, 1972. III, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Cavia aperea Erx Sci. 2(3): 129]. leben (Rodentia: Caviidae). SYNONYMs: Hoplopleura emarginata Ferris, TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil: Sao Paulo State, San 1922. - Ferrisella emarginata (Ferris): to Amaro. Ewing, 1929. DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. Brazil. Uruguay. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Sciurotamias dav idianus (Milne-Edwards) (Rodentia: Sci !.-/splendida (Johnson, 1972) [Brigham Young uridae). Univ. Sci. Bull., BioI. Ser. 17(5): 49]. TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: SYNONYM: Hoplopleura splendida Johnson, Shaanxi Provo 1972. DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: TYPE HOST: Proechimys cayennensis Des Guizhou, Shaanxi Provs. marest (Rodentia: Echimyidae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Proechimys semispinosus VPTEROPHTHIRUS Ewing, 1923 [J. Wash- (Tomes), P. trinitatis (J. A. Allen and ington Acad. Sci. 13: 147]. Chapman), P. cayennensis (Rodentia: 5 species in genus. Echimyidae). TYPE OF GENUS: P. alata. TYPE LOCALITY: Venezuela: Bolivar, 146 km HOSTS: Rodentia: Caviidae, Echimyidae. S, 7 km E of Ciudad Bolivar. 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 37 DISTRIBUTION: Bolivia. Brazil. Ecuador. NOTES: What is currently recognized as Gra T rinidad. Venezuela. phiurus murinus is likely a complex of spe cies (Holden, 1993b: 764). - .....!!rllecki Guimaraes, 1950 [Pap. Avul. Dep. Zool., Sec. Agric., Sao Paulo 9(8): 83]. 0aczewskii Cais, 1974 [Bull. Acad. Pol. Sci., SYNONYM: Hoplopleura wernecki (Guimar Ser. Sci. BioI. 22: 495]. lies) Johnson, 1972. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Dryomys nitedula TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Proechimys iher~' (Pallas) (Rodentia: Myoxidae). ingi Thomas (Rodentia: Echimyidae). TYPE LOCALITY: Poland: West Bieszczady, TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil: Sao Paulo State, Bor U strzyki Game. aceia. DISTRIBUTION: Poland. DlsnuBUTlON: Brazil. ~pleurophaeus (Burmeister, 1839) [Genera In 'SCHIZOPHTHIRUS Ferris, 1922 [Contri sectorum, Rhynchota No.7]. butions toward a monograph of the sucking SYNONYMs: Pediculus pleurophaeus Burmeis lice, Part III, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. ter, 1839. - Haematopinus leucophaeus Ser., BioI. Sci. 2(3): 143]. Giebel, 1874. - Polyplax pleurophaea 9 species in genus. (Burmeister): Enderlein, 1904. - Hasellus TYPE OF GENUS: S. pleurophaeus. pleurophaeus (Burmeister): Jancke, 1932. HOSTS: Rodentia: Dipodidae, Myoxidae. TYPE HOST: Eliomys quercinus (Linnaeus) Mthogliris Kuhn and Ludwig, 1965 [Senck. (Rodentia: Myoxidae). BioI. 46: 238]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Dryomys nitedula (Pallas), Muscardinus avellanarius (Linnaeus), TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Graphiurus hueti Roquebrune (Rodentia: Myoxidae). Myoxus glis (Linnaeus), E. quercinus (Ro TYPE LOCALITY: Liberia: "Kahnple and Pe dentia: Myoxidae). loken." TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. DrsrRIBUTlON: Liberia. DISTRIBUTION: Europe. Belarus. Morocco. '*yomydis Blagoveshtchensky, 1965 [Ento sicistae Blagoveshtchensky, 1965 [Entomol. mol. Rev. (Entomol. Obozr. USSR) 44: 87]. Rev. (Entomol. Obozr., USSR) 44: 88]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Dryomys nitedula TYPE HOST: Sicista subtilis (pallas) (Rodentia: (Pallas) (Rodentia: Myoxidae). Dipodidae: Sicistinae). TYPE LOCALITY: Kazakhstan: Alma-Ata, Glu PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Sicista betulina Pallas, S. bokaya Crevice. subtilis (Rodentia: Dipodidae: Sicistinae). DIsTRIBUTION: Kazakhstan. Poland. Russian TYPE LOCALITY: Russian Federation: Altay Federation. Steppe, formerly Zmeinogorsk uyezd, vil lage of Noven'koye. , allris Blagoveshtchensky, 1965 [Entomol. DISTRIBUTION: Mongolia. Norway. Russian Rev. (Entomol. Obozr., USSR) 44: 87]. Federation: Altay, Komi. Ukraine. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Myoxus glis (Lin NOTES: Holden (1993a) has discussed the naeus) (Rodentia: Myoxidae). subfamilies and their contents within Di TYPE LOCALITY: Yugoslavia: "Senecke livade podidae. on the r. Radika w-Macedonja." DISTRIBUTION: Bulgaria. Poland. Yugoslavia. " similis Blagoveshtchensky, 1965 [Entomol. Rev. (Entomol. Obozr., USSR) 44: 88]. graphiuri Ferris, 1922 [Contributions toward TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Sicista napaea a monograph of the sucking lice, Part II, Hollister (Rodentia: Dipodidae: Sicistin Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. ae). 2(3): 147]. TYPE LOCALITY: Russian Federation: Altay, TYPE HOST: Graphiurus murinus (Desmarest) formerly the Biysk okrug, village of On (Rodentia:~). I;i~ c' , ,( guday. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Graphiurus murinus, G. DISTRIBUTION: Russian Federation: Altay. kelleni (Reuvens), G. vulcanic?is (Lonnberg and Gyldenstolpe) (Rodentia: Myoxidae). singularis Sosnina, 1984 [Parazytologiya 18: TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya: Mt. Mbololo. 178]. DISTRIBUTION: Kenya. South Africa. Zaire. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Sicista tianshan- 38 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 ica Salensky (Rodentia: Dipodidae: Sicis PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Capra hircus Linnaeus, Ovis tinae). aries Linnaeus (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). TYPE LOCALITY: Russian Federation: Tien TYPE LOCALITY: Nigeria: Abeokuta. Shan Mountains. DISTRIBUTION: Almost cosmopolitan. DISTRIBUTION: Russian Federation: Tien Shan NOTES: Although native deer (Odocoileus spp. mountains. - Artiodactyla, Cervidae) in western North America are atypical hosts for this louse, large infestations sometimes resulting in host death have been reported on these t' F AMILY HYBOPHTHIRIDAE Ewing, mammals (Brunetti and Cribbs, 1971; For 1929 [A manual of external parasites, p. eyt et aI., 1986). 133]. ~ angasi Weisser and Ledger, 1977 [J. Ento HYBOPHTHIRUS Enderlein, 1909 mol. Soc. S. Africa 40: 285]. [Kenkschr. Medicin.-Naturwiss. Ges. Jena TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Tragelaphus an 14: 79]. gasii (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). 1 species in genus TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Natal, Ndumu TYPE OF GENUS: H. notophallus. Game Reserve. HOSTS: Tubulidentata: Orycteropodidae. DISTRIBUTION: South Africa. notophallus (Neumann, 1909) [Jahrb. Nas- . angulatus (Piaget, 1885) [Les pediculines, sauische Vereins Naturkd. Wiesbaden, p. Suppl. p. 144]. 2]. SYNONYMs: Haematopinus ungulatus Piaget, SYNONYMs: Haematopinus notophallus Neu 1885 (misspelling). - Linognathus ungu mann, 1909. - Hybophthirus orycteropodi lata (Piaget): Bedford, 1919. - Linogna Enderlein, 1909. thus ungulatus (Piaget): Fahrenholz, 1939. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Orycteropus afer TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Cephalophus (Pallas) (Tubu1identata: Orycteropodidae). nigrifrons Gray (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). TYPE LOCALITY: Namibia: Gochas. TYPE LOCALITY: Not stated. DISTRIBUTION: Kenya. Namibia. South Af DISTRIBUTION: Zaire. rica. Tanzania. ~ antennatus (Piaget, 1880) [Les pediculines, p. 647]. SYNONYM: Haematopinus tibialis var. anten FAMILYLINOGNATHIDAE Webb, 1946 natus Piaget, 1880. [Proc. Zool. Soc. London 116: 107]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Alcelaphus buse laphus (Pallas) (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). LINOGNATHUS Enderlein, 1905 [Zool. TYPE LOCALITY: Netherlands: Rotterdam: Anz. 29: 194]. Zoological Gardens. 51 species plus two nomina nuda in genus. DISTRIBUTION: Unknown. TYPE OF GENUS: L. setosus. NOTES: Ferris (1932, 1951) and Weisser HOSTS: Artiodactyla: Bovidae, Cervidae, (1974) considered L. antennatus to be a Giraffidae. Carnivora: Canidae. synonym ofL. tibialis, whereas Fiedler and aepycerus Bedford, 1936 [Onderstepoort J. Stampa (1958), van der Merwe (1968), and Vet. Sci. Anim. Ind. 7: 62]. Ledger (1980) maintained specific status TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Aepycerus melam for this taxon. pus (Lichtenstein) (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). \ antidorcitis Fiedler and Stampa, 1956 [On TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: between Pre derstepoort J. Vet. Res. 27: 57]. toria and Johannesburg. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Antidorcas mar DISTRIBUTION: Botswana. Burundi. South supialis (Zimmerman) (Artiodactyla: Bov Africa. Tanzania. idae). . G africanus Kellogg and Paine, 1911 [Bull. En TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Northern tomol. Res. 2: 146]. Transvaal. TYPE HOST: "Sheep." DISTRIBUTION: South Africa. 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 39 armatus Fiedler and Stampa, 1958 [Onder bel, 1874. - Trichaulus brevicornis (Gie stepoort J. Vet. Res. 27: 595]. bel): Enderlein, 1904. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Antidorcas mar TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Giraffa camelo supialis (Zimmerman) (Artiodactyla: Bov pardalis (Linnaeus) (Artiodactyla: Giraffi idae). dae). TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Cape Prov., TYPE LOCALITY: Netherlands: Amsterdam, Graaff Reinet District. Zoological Gardens. Neotype designated DIsrRIBUTION: South Africa. by Fiedler and Stampa (1958) from "East NOTES: Ledger (1980) stated that he had seen Prussia: Konigsberg, Zoological Gardens." a large collection of L. armatus from Ra DISTRIBUTION: Kenya. phiceras campestris (Thunberg) (Artiod actyla: Bovidae). v /cervicaprae (Lucas, 1847) [Ann. Soc. Ento mol. France 5: 534] . . lledfordi Ferris, 1932 [Contributions toward SYNONYMs: Haematopinus cervicaprae Lu a monograph of the sucking lice, Part V, cas, 1847. - Haematopinus tibialis var. Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. cervicaprae Lucas: Piaget, 1880. - Linog 2(5): 387]. nathus tibialis var. cervicaprae (Lucas): TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Antidorcas mar Dalla Torre, 1908. supialis (Zimmerman) (Artiodactyla: Bov TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Anti/ope cervica idae). pra (Linnaeus) (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Onderstepoort. TYPE LOCALITY: France: In a menagerie. Neo DIsTRIBUTION: Namibia. South Africa. type designated by Weisser (1975) from England: London, Zoological Gardens. , Waatii Dutta, 1988 [Bull. Entomol. 29: 106]. DISTRIBUTION: India. Pakistan. SYNONYM: Linognathus setosus bhatii Dutta, NOTES: Mertens et al. (1992) recorded this 1988. louse from introduced A. cervicapra in the TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Vulpes bengalen USA (Texas). sis (Shaw) (Carnivora: Canidae) . . TYPE LOCALITY: India: Uttar Pradesh State, I contractus Werneck, 1959 [Publ. Cult. Compo Shikohabad. v Diamantes Angola 48: 34]. DlsrRIBUTION: India: Uttar Pradesh State. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Ourebia ourebi NOTES: This louse was originally described as (Zimmermann) (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). a subspecies of L. setosus but we regard it TYPE LOCALITY: Angola: Moxico, Ca~a de Ca to be sufficiently distinct to warrant full meia Reserve. species status. DISTRIBUTION: Angola. Uganda. NOTES: Weisser (1974) treated this taxon as , llreviceps (Piaget, 1885) [Les pediculines, a subspecies of L. zumpti. Suppl. p. 142]. SYNONYMs: Haematopinus breviceps Piaget, ~ damaliscus Bedford, 1936 [Onderstepoort J. 1885. - Linognathus gazella Mjoberg, Vet. Sci. Anim. Ind. 7: 61]. 1910. - Linognathus gi/vus Fahrenholz, SYNONYM: Linognathus albifrontis Fiedler 1910. and Stampa, 1956. TYPE HOST: Cephalophus maxwellii (H. Smith) TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Damaliscus py (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). gargus (Pallas) (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Cephalophus monticola TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Johannesburg, (Thunberg), C. natalensis A. Smith, C. Zoological Gardens. maxwellii, Sylvicapra grimmia Linnaeus DISTRIBUTION: South Africa. (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). NOTES: The type host was originally recorded TYPE LOCALITY: Not stated. as Damaliscus dorcas but the latter is a DISTRIBUTION: Mozambique. South Africa. synonym of pygargus (Grubb, 1993: 394). brevicornis (Giebel, 1874) [Insecta epizoa, p. t damarensis Ledger, 1971 [Madoqua 4: 45]. 43]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Madoqua kirkii SYNONYMS: Haematopinus brevicornis Gie- (Gunther) (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). 40 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 TYPE LOCALITY: Namibia: Etosha National TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt: Giza Prov., near Giza Park, Namutoni. Pyramid. PISTRIBUTION: Namibia. DISTRIBUTION: Egypt. / v digitalis Kleynhans, 1968 [Nov. Taxa En- vfractus Ferris, 1932 [Contributions toward a tomoI., Suppi. Rev. Entomoi. Mo<;am monograph of the sucking lice, Part V, bique 60: 3]. Stanford Univ. Pubi. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Antidorcas rnar 2(5): 366]. supialis (Zimmerman) (Artiodactyla: Bov TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Tragelaphus idae). scriptus (Pallas) (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Cape Prov., TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Onderstepoort. Pearston District. DISTRIBUTION: Mozambique. South Africa. DISTRIBUTION: South Africa. Uganda. Zimbabwe. velblae Benoit, 1969 [Rev. Zooi. Bot. Afri geigyi BUttiker, 1949 [Acta Tropica, Basel 6: caines 80:117]. 159]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Cephalophus spa TYPE HOST: Madoqua saltiana (Desmarest) dix True (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). TYPE LOCALITY: Rwanda: Uinka (Shangugu). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Madoqua kirkii (GUnther), DISTRIBUTION: Rwanda. M. saltiana (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). TYPE LOCALITY: Switzerland: Basel, Zoolog V:uchore Waterston, 1914 [Ann. S. African ical Gardens. Mus. 10: 275]. DISTRIBUTION: Tanzania. SYNONYM: Linognathus tibialis var. euchore NOTES: Ledger (1980) believed that the type Waterston, 1914. host for this louse is in reality M. kirkii. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Antidorcas rnar vgnu Bedford, 1927 [Trans. R. Soc. S. Africa supialis (Zimmerman) (Artiodactyla: Bov 14: 349]. idae). SYNONYM: Linognathus ferrisi Bedford, 1937. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Connochaetes gnou DISTRIBUTION: Namibia. South Africa. (Zimmerman) (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). NOTES: Ferris (1932, 1951) treated this taxon TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Orange Free as a synonym of L. tibialis while Weisser State, Clocolan. (1974) considered it to be a subspecies of DISTRIBUTION: South Africa. Zimbabwe. L. tibialis. However, Fiedler and Stampa (1958), Ledger (1980), and others retained ~onolobatus Weisser and Ledger, 1977 [J. En L. euchore as a distinct species. to mol. Soc. S. Africa 40: 283]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Hippotragus fahrenholzi Paine, 1914 [Psyche 21: 117]. equinus (Desmarest) (Artiodactyla: Bovi SYNONYM: Linognathusfor.ficula Kellogg and dae). Paine, 1911. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Kruger Na TYPE HOST: Redunca arundinurn (Boddaert) tional Park. (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). DISTRIBUTION: South Africa. Zimbabwe. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Redunca fulvorufula (Afze1ius), R. redunca (Pallas), R. arundin ,/gorgonus Bedford, 1929 [Rep. Vet. Res. urn (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). Union S. Africa 15: 502]. TYPE LOCALITY: Nyasaland (= Malawi): Ma TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Connochaetes rimba District. taurinus (Burchell) (Artiodactyla: Bovi DISTRIBUTION: Malawi. Mozambique. South dae). Africa. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Transvaal, Zoutpansberg District. fenned Fiedler and Stampa, 1958 [J. Egypt. DISTRIBUTION: Botswana. Namibia. South Pubi. Hlth. Assoc. 33: 174]. Africa. Zimbabwe. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Vulpes zerda NOTES: Weisser (1974) treated this taxon as (Zimmerman) (Carnivora: Canidae). a subspecies of L. gnu. 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 41 hippotragi Ferris, 1932 [Contributions to TYPE LOCALITY: Mozambique: Tete District, ward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part Changara. V, Stanford Univ. Pubi. Univ. Ser., BioI. DISTRIBUTION: Mozambique. Sci. 2(5): 373]. , nevilli Ledger, 1973 [J. Entomoi. Soc. S. Af- TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Hippotragus niger . rica 36: 125]. (Harris) (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Aepyceros melam TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Johannesburg, pus (Lichtenstein) (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). Zoological Gardens. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Transvaal, DISTRIBUTION: Botswana. South Africa. Loskop Dam Nature Reserve. DISTRIBUTION: South Africa. . kimi van der Merwe, 1968 [Nov. Taxa En tomoI., Suppi. Rev. Entomoi. Mo~am !.-' oryxFied1erandStampa, 1958 [J. Egypt. Pubi. bique 55: 3]. Hlth. Assoc. 33: 177]. TYPE HOST: Raphicerus sharpei Thomas (Ar TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Oryx gazella (Lin- tiodactyla: Bovidae). naeus) (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Rhaphicerus melanotis TYPE LOCALITY: Southern Namibia. (Thunberg), R. sharpei (Artiodactyla: Bov DISTRIBUTION: Namibia. South Africa. idae). ourebiae Werneck, 1959 [Pubi. Cult. Compo TYPE LOCALITY: Zimbabwe: Chipinda (= Chi Diamantes Angola 48: 36]. pinga). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Ourebia ourebi DIsTRIBUTION: Mozambique. Zimbabwe. (Zimmerman) (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). NOTES: Weisser (1975) and Ledger (1980) be TYPE LOCALITY: Angola: Moxico, Ca~a de Ca lieved that records of this louse from R. meia Reserve. melanotis may reflect host misidentifica DISTRIBUTION: Angola. Uganda. tions. '< oviformis (Rudow, 1869) [Z. Ges. Naturwiss. t lewisi Bedford, 1934 [Onderstepoort J. Vet. 34: 170]. Res. Anim. Ind. 2: 48] SYNONYM: Haematopinus oviformis Rudow, TYPE HOST: Gazella thomsonii Gunther (Ar 1869. tiodactyla: Bovidae). TYPE HOST: "Hirca manifricius;" according PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Gazella dorcas (Linnaeus), to Ferris (1951) this name is untraceable G. thomsonii (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). but is presumably a goat. TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya: Naivasha. TYPE LOCALITY: Not stated. DIsTRIBUTION: Kenya. Sudan. Tanzania. DISTRIBUTION: Unknown. NOTES: Because type material cannot be lo r limnotragi Cummings, 1913 [Bull. Entomoi. cated and the original description is in Res. 4: 36]. adequate, this is a nomen nudum. This spe TYPE HOST: Tragelaphus spekii Sclater (Ar cies may not even belong in the genus tiodactyla: Bovidae). Linognathus (Ferris, 1951). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Tragelaphus scriptus (Pal ~ ovillus (Neumann, 1907) [Rev. Vet. 32: 520]. las), T. spekii (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). SYNONYMs: Haematopinus ovillus Neumann, TYPE LOCALITY: England: London, Zoological 1907. - Linognathus (Haematopinus) Gardens. ovillus (Neumann): Foley and Meslin, 1924. DISTRIBUTION: Burundi. Mozambique. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Ovis aries Lin Uganda. Zaire. Zambia. naeus (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). TYPE LOCALITY: "New Zealand and Scot ,1teSC)tragi van der Merwe, 1968 [Nov. Taxa land." EntomoI., Suppi. Rev. Entomoi. Mo~am- DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan especially in bique 55: 5]. /Vee cool or temperate regions. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Nesotragus mos chatus (Von Dueben) (Artiodactyla: Bov panamensis Ewing, 1927 [Proc. Entomoi. Soc. idae). Washington 29: 119]. 42 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 SYNONYMS: Solenopotes panamensis (Ewing): SYNONYM: Stobella pithodes (Cummings): Ei Hopkins, 1949. - Linognathus tragelaphi chler, 1949. Fiedler and Stampa, 1956. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Anti/ope cervica TYPE HOST: Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmer pra (Linnaeus) (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). mann) (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). i.. ~ , TYPE LOCALITY: England: London, zOological PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Tragelaphus scriptus (Pal Gardens. las), T. strepticeros (Pallas) (Artiodactyla: DISTRIBUTION: India. Bovidae). NOTES: Mertens et al. (1992) recorded this TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Washington DC, Na louse from introduced A. cervicaprae in the tional Zoological Park. USA (Texas). DISTRIBUTION: Burundi. Mozambique. South i- raphiceri Fiedler and Stampa, 1956 [Onder Mrica. Uganda. Zimbabwe. stepoort J. Vet. Res. 27: 58]. NOTES: The type host, a zoo animal, evi TYPE HOST: Raphicerus campestris (Thun dently harbored an accidental infestation berg) (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). of this louse, which is a typical African PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Aepyceros melampus ungulate parasite (Kim and Weisser, 1974; (Lichtenstein), R. campestris (Artiodacty Weisser, 1975; Ledger, 1980). la: Bovidae). ~. pedalis (Osborn, 1896) [U.S. Dep. Agric., Div. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Cape Prov., Entomol. Bull. (new series) 5: 170]. Graaff Reinet District. SYNONYMs: Haematopinus pedalis Osborn, DISTRIBUTION: Botswana. South Africa. Tan 1896. - Haematopinus ovis Lugger, 1896. zania. - Trichaulus pedalis (Osborn), Enderlein, 1. reduncae Fiedler and Stampa, 1956 [Onder 1904. - Haematopinus microcepahlus stepoort J. Vet. Res. 27: 60]. Garnett, 1911. TYPE HOST: Redunca fulvorufula (Afzelius) TYPE HOST: Ovis aries Linnaeus (Artiodac (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). tyla: Bovidae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Redunca arundinum (Bod PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Oreamnos americanus daert), R. fulvorufula (Artiodactyla: Bovi (Blainville), O. aries (Artiodactyla: Bovi dae). dae). TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Cape Prov., TYPE LOCALITY: "USA." Weisser (1975) des Graaff Reinet District. ignated a neotype from USA: California, DISTRIBUTION: South Africa. Livermore. NOTES: Weisser (1975) treated this taxon as DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan. a subspecies of L. fahrenholzi. ~/ peleus Bedford, 1936 [Onderstepoort J. Vet. ". saccatus (Gervais, 1845) [In Walckenaer, Sci. Anim. Ind. 7: 59]. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Apteres 3: TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Pelea capreolus 307]. (Forster) (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). SYNONYM: Haematopinus SQCCaIIIJ Gervais, TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Onderstepoort. 1845. DISTRIBUTION: South Africa. TYPE HOST: "Un boucd'Egypte"(_EaYPtian petasmatus Ferris, 1951 [Mem. Pac. Coast goat). Entomol. Soc. 1: 233]. PRINCIPAL HOST: Unknown. TYPE HOST: "North African antelope." TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt. TYPE LOCALITY: England: Manchester, Zoo- DISTRIBUTION: Egypt. logical Gardens. NOTES: This taxon is a nomen nudllm that is PRINCIPAL HOST: Unknown. known only from the original reconl and DISTRIBUTION: North Africa. for which no type material is .,wbHe This NOTES: Weisser (1975) stated that the type louse has been placed in the .... Unog host may have been either Oryx dammah nathus with uncertainty (Ferris. Itsl). (Cretschmar) or Addax nasomaculatus vsetosus (von Olfers, 1816) [De ~c:pMIivis et (Blainville) (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). animatis corporibus animatis ~iUDdis ~ . pithodes Cummings, 1916 [Proc. Zool Soc. commentarius, p. 80]. London 19: 260]. SYNONYMs: Pediculus setosus ". OIfers, 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 43 1816. Pediculus piliferus Burmeister, schistopyga Nitzsch, 1864. - H aemato 1838. - Haematopinus piliferus (Bur pinusfor/Tculus Rudow, 1869. - Haema meister): Denny, 1842. - Haematopinus topinus rupicaprae Rudow, 1869. - Tri hicolor Lucas, 1847. - Pediculus isopus chaulus stenopsis (Burmeister): Enderlein, Nitzsch, 1861. - Pediculus f/avidus 1904. - Linognathus rupicaprae (Rudow): Nitzsch, 1864. - Trichaulus piliferus (Bur Ferris, 1916. - Linognathus schistopygus meister): Enderlein, 1904. - Linognathus (Nitzsch): Fahrenholz, 1917. piliferus (Burmeister): Enderlein, 1905. - TYPE HOST: Capra hircus Linnaeus (Artio Haematopinus (Linognathus) piliferus dactyla: Bovidae). (Burmeister): Hall, 1925. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Capra ibex Linnaeus, C. TYPE HOST: Canis familiaris Linnaeus (= C. hircus, Rupicapra rupicapra (Linnaeus) lupus) (Carnivora: Canidae). (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Canis aureus Linnaeus, C. TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. Neotype from Ger latrans Say, C. lupus Linnaeus, C. meso many: Frankfurt/Main, Zoological Gar melas Schreber, Vulpes lagopus (Linnae dens (Weisser, 1975; Kim et aI., 1986). us), V. rueppelli (Schinz), V. vulpes (Lin DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan. naeus) (Carnivora: Canidae). l/ taeniotrichus Werneck, 1937 [Mem. Inst. Os TYPE LOCALITY: Germany. Neotype desig waldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro 32: 391]. nated by Weisser (1975) from Germany: TYPE HOST: "Canis brasiliensis Lund" (Car Odenwald, B~erfelden. nivora: Canidae). DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Chrysocyon brachyurus (Il NOTES: One of the hosts was originally re liger), Cerdocyon thous (Linnaeus) (Car ported as Alopex lagopus, the arctic fox. nivora: Canidae). Results of current phylogenetic study in TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil: Ceara State, Sao Ber dicate lagopus should be placed in the ge nado das Russas. nus Vulpes (Gefen et aI., 1992). Canis fam DISTRIBUTION: Brazil. Paraguay. iliaris. long the name of domestic dogs, is NOTES: The type host was identified by Wer a synonym of C. lupus, the presumed an neck as "Canis brasiliensis Lund." That cestor of domestic strains (see Wozencraft, name has been proposed three different 1993: 280, and references cited there). times: Wozencraft (1993) listed it in the '" sosninae Ozerova, 1989 [Entomol. Issled. synonymy of Pseudalopex gymnocercus Kirgizii 20: 74]. once and of Cerdocyon thous twice. Wer TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Vulpes vulpes neck (1937) mentioned obtaining the par (Linnaeus) (Carnivora: Canidae). asite also from Canis azarae; that animal TYPE LOCALITY: Kyrgyzstan. is now also called C. thous. That louse as DISTRIBUTION: Kyrgyzstan. sociation and the one with Chrysocyon are apparently the only reliable host records. spicatus Ferris, 1932 [Contributions toward The type host is probably either Pseudal a monograph of the sucking lice, Part V, opex gymnocercus or Cerdocyon thous. See Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. Wozencraft (1993) for a summary of the 2(5): 388]. synonyms associated with these host taxa. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Connochaetes [.. taurotragus Bedford, 1927 [Trans. R. Soc. S. taurinus (Burchell) (Artiodactyla: Bovi Africa 14: 347]. dae). TYPE HOST: Taurotragus oryx (Pallas) (Ar TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Transvaal, tiodactyla: Bovidae). Maastrom. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Tragelaphus strepticeros DISTRIBUTION: South Africa. (Pallas), T. oryx (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). . stenopsis (Burmeister, 1838) [Genera Insec TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Orange Free torum, Rhynchota, Species 3]. State, Clocolan. SYNONYMS: Pediculus hirci Scopoli: von 01- DISTRIBUTION: Botswana. Mozambique. fers, 1816. - Pediculus stenopsis Bur South Africa. Sudan. Tanzania. meister, 1838. - Haematopinus stenopsis ~ tibialis (Piaget, 1880) [Les pediculines, p. (Burmeister): Denny, 1842. - Pediculus 646]. 44 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 SYNONYMS: Haematopinus tibialis Piaget, TYPE OF GENUS: P. caviae-capensis. 1880. - Haematopinus tibialis var. ap HOSTS: Hyracoidea: Procaviidae. pendiculatus Piaget, 1880. - Trichaulus Vaethiopicus Fahrenholz, 1939 [Z. Parasitkd. tibialis (Piaget): Enderlein, 1904. 11: 13]. TYPE HOST: Gazella dama (Pallas) (Artio TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Procavia capensis dactyla: Bovidae). (Pallas) (Hyracoidea: Procaviidae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Gazella gazella (Pallas), G. TYPE LOCALITY: Denmark: Copenhagen, grantiBrooke, G. rufifronsGray, G. subgut Zoological Gardens. turosa (Guldenstaedt), G. dama (Artio DISTRIBUTION: South Africa. dactyla: Bovidae). TYPE LOCALITY: Netherlands: Rotterdam, ~cuatus Fahrenholz, 1939 [Z. Parasitkd. 11: Zoological Gardens. 5]. DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon. Israel. Kenya. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Procavia capensis Morocco. Sudan. (Pallas) (Hyracoidea: Procaviidae). vvituli (Linnaeus, 1758) [Systema Naturae, TYPE LOCALITY: Denmark: Copenhagen, Edition X, p. 611]. Zoological Gardens. SYNONYMs: Pediculus vituli Linnaeus, 1758. DISTRIBUTION: South Africa. - Pediculus bovis vituli Linnaeus, 1764. - / ;/caviae-capensis (pallas, 1767) [Spicilegia Zool. Haematopinus vituli (Linnaeus): Stephens, 2: 32]. 1829. - Pediculus tenuirostris Burmeister, SYNONYMs: Pediculus caviae-capensis Pallas, 1838. - Pediculus oxyrrhynchus Nitzsch, 1767. - Pediculus collaris von Olfers, 1816. 1864. - Haematopinus tenuirostris (Bur - Linognathus caviae-capensis (Pallas): meister): Giebel, 1874. - Trichaulus vituli Cummings, 1913. (Linnaeus): Enderlein, 1904. - Linogna TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Procavia capensis thella vituli (Linnaeus): Ribbeck, 1972. (Pallas) (Hyracoidea: Procaviidae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Bos taurus Lin TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Cape Province. naeus (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). DISTRIBUTION: Botswana. South Africa. TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden. DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan. \, faini Benoit, 1961 [Rev. Zool. Bot. Africaines 63: 236]. v vulpis Werneck, 1952 [Rev. Bras. BioI. 12: TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Dendrohyrax ar 77]. boreus (A. Smith) (Hyracoidea: Procavi TYPE HOST: Vulpes bengalensis (Shaw) (Car idae). nivora: Canidae). TYPE LOCALITY: Zaire: Ituri, Lac Albert, Zega. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Vulpes vulpes Linnaeus, V. DISTRIBUTION: Zaire. bengalensis (Carnivora: Canidae). TYPE LOCALITY: Pakistan: Karachi. vterrisi Fahrenholz, 1939 [Z. Parasitkd. 11: DISTRIBUTION: Iran. Pakistan. 12]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Heterohyrax bru , zumpti Fiedler and Stampa, 1958 [J. Egypt. cei (Gray) (Hyracoidea: Procaviidae). " Publ. Hlth. Assoc. 33: 176]. TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya: Marsabit Road. TYPE HOST: Sylvicapra grimmia Linnaeus DISTRIBUTION: Kenya. (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Raphicerus campestris jfoleyi Fahrenholz, 1939 [Zeitschr. Parasitkd. (Thunberg), S. grimmia (Artiodactyla: 11: 19]. Bovidae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Procavia capensis TYPE LOCALITY: Botswana: bebete District. (Pallas) (Hyracoidea: Procaviidae). DISTRIBUTION: Botswana. Mozambique. TYPE LOCALITY: Algeria. South Africa. DISTRIBUTION: Algeria. Nigeria. PROLINOGNATHUS Ewing, 1929 [A : leptocephalus (Ehrenberg, 1828) [Symbolae manual of external parasites, p. 201]. Physicae Mammalia, Decas Prima, page fl. 8 species in genus. SYNONYMs: Pediculus leptocephalus Ehren- 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 45 berg, 1828. - Haematopinus leptocepha TYPE LOCALITY: Not stated. lus (Ehrenberg): Giebel, 1874. - Linog DISTRIBUTION: Eurasia. nathus leptocephalus (Ehrenberg): NOTES: This louse has been introduced with Cummings, 1913. its host(s} to some other regions or coun TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Procavia capensis tries such as New Zealand (Andrews, 1964). (Pallas) (Hyracoidea: Procaviidae). v/capillatus Enderlein, 1904 [Zool. Anz. 28: TYPE LOCALITY: Syria. 144]. DISTRIBUTION: Israel. Lebanon. Syria. SYNONYM: Solenopotes capillatus dubius Ger NOTES: Werneck (1959) reported P. lepto- weI, 1953. cephalus from Heterohyrax brucei (Gray) TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Bos taurus Lin in Angola; this record may be erroneous. naeus (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). 0chulzi Taute, 1971 [Madoqua 4: 53]. TYPE LOCALITY: Germany: Leipzig. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Procavia capensis DISTRIBUTION: Holarctic region. Also record (Pallas) (Hyracoidea: Procaviidae). ed from introduced hosts in Australia, TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Cape Prov., South Africa, Vietnam, and other regions Robertson, Vrolijkheid. or countries. DISTRIBUTION: Namibia. South Africa. NOTES: Kim et al. (1986) discussed usage of the name S. capillatus in relation to that SOLENOPOTES Enderlein, 1904 [Zool. of Haematopinus eurysternus Denny. Anz. 28: 143]. 9 species in genus. !--~preoli Freund, 1935 [Recueil de travail de TYPE OF GENUS: S. capillatus. die au 25me anniversaire scientifique du HOSTS: Artiodactyla: Bovidae, Cervidae. Professor Eugene Pawlowsky, 1909, 1934, Leningrad and Moscow, p. 278]. l binipilosus (Fahrenholz, 1916) [Arch. Na SYNONYM: Cervophthirius capreoli (Freund): turges., Abt. A 81: 11]. Conci, 1946. SYNONYMs: Linognathus binipilosus Fahren TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Capreolus ca holz, 1916. - Linognathus coassus Fah preolus (Linnaeus) (Artiodactyla: Cervi renholz, 1917. dae). TYPE HOST: "Mazama hirsch" (= Mazama TYPE LOCALITY: Not stated. sp.) (Artiodactyla: Cervidae). DISTRIBUTION: Eurasia. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmerman), Mazama gouazoubira (G. ferrisi (Fahrenholz, 1919) [Jahrb. Nieder Fischer) (Artiodactyla: Cervidae). sachs. Zool. Vereins Hanover 5-10: 24]. TYPE LOCALITY: Not stated. SYNONYMs: Linognathus jerrisi Fahrenholz, DISTRIBUTION: North, Central, and South 1919. - Cervophthirius jerrisi (Fahren America. holz): Jancke, 1932. TYPE HOST: (Rafin vburmeisteri (Fahrenholz, 1919) [Jahrb. Nied Odocoileus hemionus esque) (Artiodactyla: Cervidae). ersachs. Zool. Vereins Hannover 5-10: 23]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Cervus elaphus Linnaeus, SYNONYMS: Pediculus crassicornis Nitzsch, Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmerman), 1818 (preoccupied). - Haematopinus o. hemionus (Artiodactyla: Cervidae). crassicornis (Nitzsch): Denny, 1842. - TYPE LOCALITY: USA: California, Mendocino Cervophthirius crassicornis (Nitzsch): Fer County, Laytonville. ris, 1916. - Linognathus crassicornis DISTRIBUTION: North America. (Nitzsch): Fahrenholz, 1916. - Linogna thus burmeisteri Fahrenholz, 1919. - Cer G hologastrus (Werneck, 1937) [Mem. Inst. Os vophthrius burmeisteri (Fahrenholz): waldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro 32: 397]. Jancke, 1938. SYNONYM: Linognathus hologastrus Wer TYPE HOST: Cervus elaphus Linnaeus (Ar neck, 1937. tiodactyla: Cervidae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Connochaetes PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Cervus nippon Temminck, taurinus (Burchell) (Artiodactyla: Bovi C. elaphus (Artiodactyla: Cervidae). dae). 46 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 TYPE LOCALITY: Namibia: Grootfontein. TYPE HOST: Unknown. DISTRIBUTION: Namibia. South Africa. PRINCIPAL HOST: Camelus dromedarius Lin Uganda. naeus (Artiodactyla: Camelidae). TYPE LOCALITY: Algeria. ~. muntiacus Thompson, 1938 [Ann. Mag. Nat. DISTRIBUTION: Algeria. India: Punjab, Rajas Hist., Ser. 11, 1: 634]. than States. Probably introduced to other SYNONYM: Solenopotes sinensis Chin, 1973. regions together with its host. TYPE HOST: Muntiacus muntjak (Zimmer man) (Artiodactyla: Cervidae). mazzai Werneck, 1932 [Rev. Med.-Cirurg. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Muntiacus reevesi (Ogilby), Brasil 40: 346]. M. muntjak (Artiodactyla: Cervidae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Lama glama (Lin TYPE LOCALITY: Ceylon (= Sri Lanka): Gam naeus) (Artiodactyla: Camelidae). maduwa, Mousakande. TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina: Jujuy Prov., Santa DISTRIBUTION: Kampuchea. Nepal. People's Catalina. Republic of China: Guizhou, Yunnan DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. Bolivia. Peru. Provs. Sri Lanka. Taiwan. Thailand. In ~ minor Werneck, 1935 [Rev. Med.-Cirurg. troduced to Britain and elsewhere on im Brasil 43: 112]. ported hosts. TYPE HOST: Lama pacos (Linnaeus) (Artio natalensis Ledger, 1970 [J. Entomol. Soc. S. dactyla: Camelidae). Africa 33: 267]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Lama glama (Linnaeus), L. TYPE HOST: Raphicerus campestris (Thun pacos, Vicugna vicugna (Molina) (Artio berg) (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). dactyla: Camelidae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Raphicerus melanotis TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina: Jujuy Prov., Abra (Thunberg), R. sharpei Thomas, R. cam Pampa. pestris (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. Peru. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Natal, Empan ~ praelongiceps (Neumann, 1909) [Arch. Par geni. asitol. 13: 508]. DISTRIBUTION: Mozambique. South Africa. SYNONYMS: Haematopinus (Linognathus) tarandi (Mjoberg, 1915) [Entomol. Tijdskr. praelongiceps Neumann, 1909. - Linog 36: 283]. nathus praelongiceps (Neumann): Ferris, SYNONYM: Cervophthirius tarandi Mjoberg, 1916. 1915. TYPE HOST: Lama guanicoe (Muller) (Artiod TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Rangifer tarandus actyla: Camelidae). (Linnaeus) (Artiodactyla: Cervidae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Lama glama (Linnaeus), L. TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden: Karesuando. guanicoe, Vicugna vicugna (Molina) (Ar DISTRIBUTION: Arctic and northern Holarctic tiodactyla: Camelidae). regions. TYPE LOCALITY: Bolivia: Choquecomato. DISTRIBUTION: Bolivia. Peru. FAMILY MICROTHORACIIDAE Kim and Ludwig, 1978 [Syst. Entomol. 3: 274]. FAMILY NEOLINOGNA THIDAE Fah renholz, 1936 [Z. Parasitkd. 9: 56]. v MICROTHORACIUS Fahrenholz, 1916 [Arch. Naturges., Abt. A 81: 29]. v NEOLINOGNATHUS Bedford, 1920 [En- 4 species in genus. tomol. Mon. Mag. 6: 88]. TYPE OF GENUS: M. praelongiceps. 2 species in genus. HOSTS: Artiodactyla: Camelidae. TYPE OF GENUS: N. elephantuli. HOSTS: Macroscelidea: Macroscelididae. 1/ cameli (Linnaeus, 1758) [Systema Naturae, Edition X, p. 611]. V~lephantuli Bedford, 1920 [Entomol. Mon. SYNONYMS: Pediculus cameli Linnaeus, 1758. Mag. 6: 89]. - Haematopinus cameli (Linnaeus): Gie TYPE HOST: Elephantulus rupestris(A. Smith) bel, 1874. (Macroscelidea: Macroscelididae). 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 47 PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Elephantulus myurus PEDICINUS Gervais, 1844 [In Walcken Thomas and Schwan, E. rupestris, E. aer's Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Ap brachyrhynchus (A. Smith), Petrodromus teres 3: 301]. tetradactylus Peters (Macroscelidea: Ma 14 species in genus. croscelididae). TYPE OF GENUS: P. eurygaster. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Transvaal, On HOSTS: Primates: Cercopithecidae. derstepoort. (Rudow, 1869) [Z. Ges. Naturwiss. DISTRIBUTION: Kenya. South Africa. V~lbidus 34: 168]. NOTES: Ledger (1980) stated that the true type SYNONYMs: Haematopinus albidus Rudow, host of this louse must be E. myurus be 1869. - Pedicinus vulgaris Fahrenholz, cause E. rupestris is not found at the type 1916 (partim). - Pedicinus (Parapedici locality in the Transvaal, South Africa. nus) albidus (Rudow): Kuhn and Ludwig, Ferris (1922) recorded N. elephantuli from 1967. "British Central Africa;" this is probably TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Malawi although parts of Zambia and Macaca sylvanus (Linnaeus) (Primates: Cercopithecidae). southern Tanzania were also included un TYPE LOCALITY: Northwest Africa. Neotype der this name (Johnston, 1897). designated by Kuhn and Ludwig (1967) vti;aelautus Ferris, 1922 [Contributions to from England: London, Zoological Gar ward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part dens. III, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. DISTRIBUTION: Gibraltar. Morocco. Sci. 2(3): 169]. "ancoratus Ferris, 1934 [Contributions toward TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Elephantulus ru a monograph of the sucking lice, Part VII, jescens (Peters) (Macroscelidea: Macros Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. celididae). 2(7): 516]. TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya: Lime Springs. SYNONYM: DISTRIBUTION: Kenya. Pedicinus (Neopedicinus) ancora tus Ferris: Kuhn and Ludwig, 1967. TYPE HOST: Trachypithecus cristatus (Raffles) (Primates: Cercopithecidae). 1/ FAMILY PECAROECIDAE Keler, 1963 PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Presbytis rubicunda (Mul [14. Ordnung. Uiuse, Anoplura. In P. ler), Trachypithecus auratus (E. Geoffroy), Brohmer et aI., eds. Tierwelt Mitteleuro T. jrancoisi (Pousargues), T. cristatus, pas, Leipzig, Insekten 1, Teil 4, Heft 8, L. Semnopithecus entellus (Dufresne) (Pri 2, p. 4]. mates: Cercopithecidae). ,. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia: East Sumatra, ~ PECAROECUS Babcock and Ewing, 1938 Pulo Sebang. [proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 40: 197]. DISTRIBUTION: Borneo. India: Jammu and 1 species in genus. Kashmir State. Indonesia: Sumatra. Ma TYPE OF GENUS: P. javalii. laysia. People's Republic of China: Jiangsu HOSTS: Artiodactyla: Tayassuidae. Provo Sri Lanka. Thailand. ~javalii Babcock and Ewing, 1938 [Proc. En NOTES: Taxonomy of the hosts is that of tomol. Soc. Washington 40: 199]. Groves (1993). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Pecari tajacu (Lin v badii Kuhn and Ludwig, 1964 [Senck. BioI. naeus) (Artiodactyla: Tayassuidae). 45: 146]. TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Texas, "between Juno, SYNONYMS: Pedicinus badiivorus Benoit, Texas and the Pecos River." 1964. - Pedicinus (Neopedicinus) badii DISTRIBUTION: Southwestern USA, Central Kuhn and Ludwig, 1967. and South America. TYPE HOST: Procolobus badius (Kerr) (Pri- mates: Cercopithecidae). r PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Colobus polykomos (Zim merman), Procolobus rujomitratus (Pe FAMILY PEDICINIDAE Enderlein, 1904 ters), P. badius (Primates: Cercopitheci [Zool. Anz. 28: 136]. dae). 48 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 TYPE LOCALITY: Liberia: Eastern Prov., Putu (Pedicinus) eurygaster eurygaster (Bur Chiefdom. meister): Kuhn and Ludwig, 1967. - Ped DISTRIBUTION: Congo. Gambia. Ghana. Li icinus (Pedicinus) eurygaster orientalis beria. Sierra Leone. Zaire. . Kuhn and Ludwig, 1967. TYPE HOST: Macaca sinica (Linnaeus) (Pri / cercocebi Kuhn and Ludwig, 1967 [Z. Zoo1. mates: Cercopithecidae). Syst. Evolutionsforsch. 5: 189]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Macaca cyc/opis (Swin SYNONYM: Pedicinus (Neopedicinus) cerco hoe), M. jascicularis (Raffles), M. mulatta cebi Kuhn and Ludwig, 1967. (Zimmermann), M. nemestrina (Linnae TYPE HOST: Cercocebus torquatus (Kerr) (Pri us), M. silenus (Linnaeus), M. sinica, Na mates: Cercopithecidae). salis concolor (Miller) (Primates: Cercopi PRINCIPAL HOSTS: C. torquatus, Lophocebus thecidae). albigena (Gray) (primates: Cercopitheci TYPE LOCALITY: Not stated (from an animal dae). in a traveling menagerie). TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden: Stockholm (pre DISTRIBUTION: Borneo. Burma. India: Jam sumably from a zoo). mu and Kashmir State. Indonesia: Java, DISTRIBUTION: Uganda. Zaire. Sumatra. Malaysia. People's Republic of China: Guizhou Provo Philippines. Tai colobi Fahrenholz, 1917 [Jahrb. Hamburg. wan. Thailand. Wiss. Anst. 34: 8]. NOTES: Kuhn and Ludwig (1967) recognized SYNONYMS: Pedicinus paralleliceps var. co three subspecies of this louse: P. (P.) eur lobi Fahrenholz, 1917. - Pedicinus (Par ygaster eurygaster, P. (P.) eurygaster brev apedicinus) colobi Fahrenholz: Kuhn and iceps, and P. (P.) eurygaster orientalis. Ludwig, 1967. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Colobus guereza vferrisi Kuhn and Ludwig, 1965 [Ann. Mag. Ruppell (Primates: Cercopithecidae). Nat. Hist., Ser. 13, 7: 517 (1964)]. TYPE LOCALITY: Not stated. SYNONYM: Pedicinus (Neopedicinus) jerrisi DISTRIBUTION: Africa? (material collected Kuhn and Ludwig: Kuhn and Ludwig, from zoo animal). 1967. TYPE HOST: Cercopithecus mitis Wolf (Pri cynopitheci Kuhn and Ludwig, 1967 [Z. Zoo1. mates: Cercopithecidae). Syst. Evolutionsforsch. 5: 232]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Chlorocebus aethiops (Lin SYNONYM: Pedicinus (Parapedicinus) cyno naeus), Cercopithecus ascanius (Audebert), pitheci Kuhn and Ludwig, 1967. C. nictitans (Linnaeus), C. mitis (Primates: TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Macaca tonkeana Cercopithecidae). (Meyer) (Primates: Cercopithecidae). TYPE LOCALITY: Tanzania: Taveta. TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Washington DC, Na DISTRIBUTION: Kenya. Rwanda. South Afri tional Zoological Park. ca. Tanzania. Uganda. Zaire. DISTRIBUTION: Indonesia: Sulawesi. / hamadryas Mjoberg, 1910 [Arch. Zoo1. 6: / eurygaster (Burmeister, 1838) [Genera In- 172]. sectorum, Rhynchota, Species 21]. SYNONYMS: Pedicinus (Parapedicinus) ham SYNONYMs: Pediculus eurygaster Burmeister, adryas cercopitheci Kuhn and Ludwig, 1838. - Pediculus microps Nitzsch, 1864. 1967. - Pedicinus (Parapedicinus) ham - Pedicinus breviceps Piaget, 1880 (par adryas cynocephali Kuhn and Ludwig, tim). - Pedicinus longiceps Piaget, 1880 1967. - Pedicinus (Parapedicinus) ham (partim). - Pedicinus piageti Stroebelt, adryas hamadryas Mjoberg: Kuhn and 1881. - Phthirpedicinus micropilosus Fah Ludwig, 1967. renholz, 1912. - Phthirpedicinus microps TYPE HOST: Hamadryas sp. (Primates: Cer (Nitzsch): Fahrenholz, 1912. - Phthirpe copithecidae). dicinus piageti (Stroebelt): Fahrenholz, PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Chlorocebus aethiops (Lin 1912. - Phthirpedicinus eurygaster (Bur naeus), Papio hamadryas (Linnaeus) (Pri meister): Fahrenholz, 1916. - Pedicinus mates: Cercopithecidae). (Pedicinus) eurygaster breviceps Piaget: TYPE LOCALITY: Germany: Hamburg, Zoo Kuhn and Ludwig, 1967. - Pedicinus logical Gardens. 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 49 DISTRIBUTION: Botswana. Kenya. South Af Sulawesi, Sumatra. Japan. People's Re rica. Tanzania. Uganda. Zaire. public of China: Guizhou Provo Philip NOTES: Kuhn and Ludwig (1967) recognized pines. Taiwan. three subspecies of this louse: P. (P.) ham NOTES: Kuhn and Ludwig (1967) divided this adryas hamadryas, P. (P.) hamadryas cer taxon into five named subspecies: P. (P.) copitheci, and P. (P.) hamadryas cynoce obtusus obtusus, P. (P.) obtusus gracilileps, phali. Taxonomy of the hosts is P. (P.) obtusus japonicus, P. (P.) obtusus summarized by Groves (1993). longiceps, and P. (P.) obtusus paralleliceps; they also recognized a sixth subspecies \, miopitheci Kuhn and Ludwig, 1970 [Senck. which they did not name. BioI. 51: 205]. SYNONYM: Pedicinus (Neopedicinus) miopi V patas (Fahrenholz, 1916) [Arch. Naturges., theci Kuhn and Ludwig, 1970. Abt. A, 81: 6]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Miopithecus tal SYNONYMs: Neopedicinus patas Fahrenholz, apoin (Schreber) (Primates: Cercopitheci 1916. - Pedicinus bilobatus Benoit, 1962. dae). - Pedicinus (Neopedicinus) patas (Fahren TYPE LOCALITY: USA: California, San Diego, holz): Kuhn and Ludwig, 1967. Zoological Gardens. TYPE HOST: Erythrocebus patas (Schreber) DISTRIBUTION: Equatorial Guinea. Gabon. (Primates: Cercopithecidae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Chlorocebus aethiops (Lin CQbtusus (Rudow, 1869) [Z. Ges. Naturwiss. naeus), Cercopithecus campbelli (Water 34: 169]. house), C. cephus (Linnaeus), C. diana SYNONYMs: Haematopinus obtusus Rudow, (Linnaeus), C. mitis Wolf, C. neglect us 1869. - Pedicinus longiceps Piaget, 1880 Schlegel, C. petaurista (Schreber), Proco (partim). - Pedicinus breviceps Piaget, lobus badius (Kerr) Erythrocebus patas 1880 (partim). - Pedicinus graciliceps Pia (Primates: Cercopithecidae). get, 1885. - Pedicinus paralleliceps Mjob TYPE LOCALITY: Not stated. erg, 1910. - Pedicinus rhesi Fahrenholz, DISTRIBUTION: Congo. Liberia. South Africa. 1912. - Pedicinus vulgaris Fahrenholz, Zaire. 1916 (partim). - Pedicinus (Parapedici nus) obtusus graciliceps Piaget: Kuhn and ~ pictus Ferris, 1934 [Contributions toward a Ludwig, 1967. - Pedicinus (Parapedici monograph of the sucking lice, Part VII, nus) obtusus japonicus Kuhn and Ludwig, Stanford Univ. Pubi. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. 1967. - Pedicinus (Parapedicinus) obtusus 2(7): 518]. longiceps Piaget: Kuhn and Ludwig, 1967. SYNONYMs: Pedicinus jastigatus Kuhn and - Pedicinus (Parapedicinus) obtusus ob Ludwig, 1964; - Pedicinus polykomi Kuhn tusus (Rudow): Kuhn and Ludwig, 1967. and Ludwig, 1964. - Pedicinus (Neope - Pedicinus (Parapedicinus) obtusus par dicinus) pictus Ferris: Kuhn and Ludwig, alleliceps Mjoberg: Kuhn and Ludwig, 1967. - Pedicinus (Neopedicinus) pictus 1967. pictus Ferris: Kuhn and Ludwig, 1967. - TYPE HOST: Macaca maura F. Schinz (Pri Pedicinus (Neopedicinus) pictus gambiensis mates: Cercopithecidae). Kuhn and Ludwig, 1967. - Pedicinus PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Macaca arctoides (1. Geof (Neopedicinus) pictus polykomi Kuhn and froy), M. cyc/opis (Swinhoe), M. jascicu Ludwig: Kuhn and Ludwig, 1967. - Ped laris (Raffles), M. juscata (Blyth), M. mu icinus (Neopedicinus) pictusjastigatus Kuhn latta (Zimmermann), M. nemestrina and Ludwig: Kuhn and Ludwig, 1967. - (Linnaeus), M. maura, M. silenus (Linnae Pedicinus (Neopedicinus) pictus ethiopicus us), M. sinica (Linnaeus), M. thibetana Kuhn and Ludwig, 1967. (Milne-Edwards), Nasalis lavatus (Wurmb), TYPE HOST: Colobus guereza Ruppell (Pri Trachypithecus cristatus (Raffles) (Pri mates: Cercopithecidae). mates: Cercopithecidae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Procolobus badius (Kerr), TYPE LOCALITY: Not stated. Colobus polykomos (Zimmermann), C. sa DISTRIBUTION: Borneo. Burma. India: Jam tanas Waterhouse, C. guereza (Primates: mu and Kashmir State. Indonesia: Java, Cercopithecidae). 50 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya: Mount Kenya. SYNONYMS: Pediculus humanus capitis De DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon. Ethiopia. Gam Geer, 1778. - Pediculus humanus corporis bia. Kenya. Liberia. Uganda. De Geer, 1778. - Pediculus humanus hu NOTES: Kuhn and Ludwig (1967) recognized manus Linnaeus: Latreille, 1803. - Ped five subspecies of this louse with P. (N.) iculus cervicalis Latreille, 1803. - Pedi pictus pictus and P. (N.) pictus ethiopicus culus nigritarum Fabricius, 1805. both parasitizing C. guereza; P. (N.) pictus Pediculus albidior von Olfers, 1816. jastigatus and P. (N.) pictus gambiensis Pediculus nigrescens von Olfers, 1816. parasitizing different subspecies of P. bad Pediculus pubescens von Olfers, 1816. ius; and P. (N.) pictus polykomi parasitiz Pediculus vestimenti Nitzsch, 1818. - Ped ing C. polykomos and C. satanas. Ledger iculus tabescentium Alt, 1824. - Pediculus (1980) suggested that each of these sub capitis De Geer: Burmeister, 1834. - Ped species could be elevated to species rank. iculus consobrinus Piaget, 1880. - Pedi culus corporis De Geer: Fahrenholz, 1912. veri Kuhn and Ludwig, 1963 [Senck. BioI. - Pediculus capitis angustus Fahrenholz, 44: 214]. 1915. - Pediculus corporis marginatus SYNONYM: Pedicinus (Neopedicinus) veri Fahrenholz, 1915. - Pediculus corporis ni Kuhn and Ludwig: Kuhn and Ludwig, gritarum Fabricius: Fahrenholz, 1915. - 1967. Pediculus capitis maculatus Fahrenholz, TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Procolobus verus 1916. - Pediculus corporis angustus Fah (Van Beneden) (Primates: Cercopitheci renholz, 1916. - Pediculus jriedenthali dae). Fahrenholz, 1916. - Pediculus humanus TYPE LOCALITY: Liberia: Central Prov., Gbi chinensis Fahrenholz, 1916. - Pediculus Dom Chiefdom, Freemantown. humanus marginatus Fahrenholz, 1916. - DISTRIBUTION: Liberia. Sierra Leone. Pediculus oblongus Fahrenholz, 1916 (pre occupied). - Pediculus assimilis Fahren FAMILY PEDICULIDAE Leach, 1817 [The holz, 1919. - Pediculus (Pediculus) hu zoological miscellany 3: 64]. manus americanus Ewing, 1926. - Pediculus (Pediculus) humanus angustus V PEDICULUS Linnaeus, 1758 [Systema Na- Fahrenholz: Ewing, 1926. - Pediculus turae, Edition X, p. 610]. (Pediculus) humanus nigritarum Fabricius: 3 species plus 3 nomina nuda in genus. Ewing, 1926. - Pediculus humanus amer TYPE OF GENUS: P. humanus. icanus Ewing: Ewing, 1933. - Pediculus HOSTS: Primates: Cebidae, Hominidae, Pon (Parapediculus) pseudohumanus Ewing, gidae. 1938. - Pediculus pseudohumanus Ewing: / aquaticus Pontoppidan, 1763 [Danske Atlas Ferris, 1951. 1: 699]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Homo sapiens NOTES: No details are available for this taxon Linnaeus (Primates: Hominidae). (Ferris, 1951) and it is assigned nomen nu TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden. dum status. DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan. NOTES: Until valid evidence to the contrary clavicornis Nitzsch, 1864 [Z. Ges. Naturwiss. is provided, two subspecies are recognized 23: 32]. for this louse. The nominate subspecies, SYNONYM: Haematopinus clavicornis Pediculus humanus humanus is the body (Nitzsch): Giebel, 1874. louse, while Pediculus humanus capitis is TYPE HOST: Meriones sp. (Rodentia: Muri- the head louse of humans. dae: Gerbillinae). n' :,;,'" PRINCIPAL HOST: Unknown. Oijobergi Ferris, 1916 [Proc. California Acad. TYPE LOCALITY: "Africa." Sci., Ser. 4, 6: 136]. DISTRIBUTION: "Africa." SYNONYMs: Pediculus affinis Mjoberg, 1910 NOTES: This taxon is untraceable and is there (preoccupied). - Pediculus lobatus Fah fore a nomen nudum (Johnson, 1960). renholz, 1916. - Pediculus (Parapedicu , humanus Linnaeus, 1758 [Systema Naturae, Ius) atelophilus Ewing, 1926. - Pediculus Edition X, p. 610]. (Parapediculus) chapini Ewing, 1926. - 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 51 Pediculus (Parapediculus) lobatus Fahren holz: Ewing, 1926. - Pediculus atelophilus FAMILY POLYPLACIDAE Fahrenholz, Ewing: Ewing, 1938. - Pediculus chapini 1912 [Jahrb. Niedersachs. Zool. Ver. Han Ewing: Ewing, 1938. nover 2-4: 58]. TYPE HOST: Ateles sp. (Primates: Cebidae). t/CTENOPHTHIRUS Ferris, 1922 [Contri PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Alouatta belzebul (Linnae butions toward a monograph ofthe sucking us), A. caraya (Humboldt), A. palliata lice, Part III, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. (Gray), A. pigra Lawrence, Ateles fusiceps Ser., BioI. Sci. 2(3): 153]. Gray, A. geoffroyi Kuhl, A. paniscus (Lin 1 species in genus. naeus), A. belzebuth E. Geoffroy, Cebus TYPE OF GENUS: C. cercomydis. capucinus (Linnaeus), Cebus apella (Lin HOSTS: Rodentia: Echimyidae. naeus) (Primates: Cebidae). TYPE LOCALITY: Not stated; in a menagerie. : cercomydis Ferris, 1922 [Contributions to DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. Bolivia. Brazil. " ward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part Costa Rica. Guatemala. Nicaragua. Pana III, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. ma. Sci. 2(3): 153]. NOTES: Historically, disagreement regarding TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Thrichomys aper- the taxonomic status of the lice of cebid eoides (Lund) (Rodentia: Echimyidae). monkeys has occurred (Ewing, 1933; Fer TYPE LOCALITY: Paraguay: Sapucay. ris, 1951; Kim and Emerson, 1968). Ewing DISTRIBUTION: Paraguay. (1933) recognized P. atelophilus, P. chap NOTES: The type host was originally recorded ini, P. lobatus, and P. mjobergi all as dis as Cercomys fosteri. Cercomys cunicularis tinct species. Ferris (1951) recognized only is a composite (Petter, 1973; Mares et al. P. mjobergi but stated that P. pseudohu 1981), and fosteri is a synonym of Thri manus (here treated as a synonym of P. chomys apereoides (Woods, 1993: 798). humanus) was "possibly worthy of recog ~CUYANA Ronderos and Capri, 1969 [Rev. nition" (as a distinct species). Kim and Soc. Entomol. Argentina 31: 67]. Emerson (1968) listed only two species, P. 1 species in genus. humanus and P. schaejJi, for the genus Ped TYPE OF GENUS: C. maurii. iculus but stated that other forms "should HOSTS: Rodentia: Chinchillidae. be reexamined for their validity with ad ditional information." ~aurii Ronderos and Capri, 1969 [Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argentina 31: 69]. ~. quadrumanus Murray, 1877 [Economic En- SYNONYM: Eulinognathus maurii (Ronderos tomology, Aptera, p. 3]. and Capri): Kim and Ludwig, 1978. TYPE HOST: Ateles sp. (Primates: Cebidae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Lagidium viscacia PRINCIPAL HOST: Unknown. (Molina) (Rodentia: Chinchillidae). DISTRIBUTION: Unknown. TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina: San Juan, Valle NOTES: This species is unrecognizable from Fertil. the original description and type material DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. is unavailable; it is therefore a nomen nu dum (Ferris, 1951). DOCOPHTHIRUS Waterston, 1923 [Bull. Entomol. Res. 14: 101]. '/ schaeffi Fahrenholz, 1910 [Jahrb. Nieder 1 species in genus. sachs. Zool. Ver. Hannover 1: 57]. TYPE OF GENUS: D. acinetus. SYNONYMs: Pediculus humanus race schaejJi HOSTS: Scandentia: Tupaiidae. Fahrenholz: Nuttall, 1919. - Pediculus acinetus Waterston, 1923 [Bull. Entomol. Res. (Paenipediculus) simiae Ewing, 1932. 14: 101]. TYPE HOST: Pan troglodytes (Gmelin) (Pri TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Anathana ellioti mates: Pongidae). (Waterhouse) (Scandentia: Tupaiidae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Pan paniscus Schwartz, P. SYNONYM: India: Madras. troglodytes (Primates: Pongidae). DISTRIBUTION: India: Madras State. TYPE LOCALITY: Germany: Hamburg, Zoo logical Gardens. ,:/EULINOGNATHUS Cummings, 1916 DISTRIBUTION: Congo. Sierra Leone. Zaire. [Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 8, 17: 90]. 52 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 27 species in genus. C. mendocinus Philippi (Rodentia: Cten TYPE OF GENUS: E. denticularis. omyidae). HOSTS: Rodentia: Bathyergidae, Chinchilli TYPE LOCALITY: Paraguay: Salade River. dae, Ctenomyidae, Dipodidae, Muridae DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. Paraguay. Pata (Lophiomyinae, Nesomyinae), Pedetidae. gonia. aculeatus (Neumann, 1912) [Bull. Soc. Zool. biuncatus Ferris, 1932 [Contributions toward France 37: 143]. a monograph of the sucking lice, Part V, SYNONYM: Haematopinus (Polyplax) aculea Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. tus Neumann, 1912. 2(5): 324]. TYPE HOST: "Dipus sp;" according to Johnson TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Dipus sagitta (Pal (1957), this must be Jaculus sp. (Rodentia: las) (Rodentia: Dipodidae: Dipodinae). Dipodidae). TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Allactaga elater (Lichten Shaanxi Provo stein), A. sibirica (Forster), Jaculus blan DISTRIBUTION: Mongolia. People's Republic fordi (Murray), J. jaculus (Linnaeus), J. or of China: Nei Monggol, Shaanxi Prov. ientalis Erxleben (Rodentia: Dipodidae). Ybolivianus Wemeck, 1952 [Rev. Bras. BioI. TYPE LOCALITY: Tunisia: Djerba. 12: 426]. DISTRIBUTION: Egypt. Mauritania. People's TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Ctenomys opimus Republic of China. Russian Federation: Wagner (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae). Chita Oblast, Irkutsk Oblast. Tajikistan. TYPE LOCALITY: Bolivia: Oruro. Tunisia. DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. Bolivia. NOTES: Hosts are in two subfamilies; species of Allactaga are in Allactaginae, those of ,~ cardiocranius Chin, 1992 [Acta Zootaxon. Jaculus in Dipodinae (Holden, 1993a). Sinica 17: 426]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Cardiocranius alactaguli Blagoveshtchensky, 1965 [Ento paradoxas Satunin (Rodentia: Dipodidae: mol. Rev. (Entomol. Obozr., USSR) 44: Cardiocraniinae). 89]. TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Pygeretmus pum Nei Monggol. ilio Kerr (Rodentia: Dipodidae: Allacta DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: ginae). Nei Monggol. TYPE LOCALITY: Kazakhstan: Gur'yev Provo denticulatus Cummings, 1916 [Ann. Mag. DISTRIBUTION: Kazakhstan. Russian Feder v Nat. Hist., Ser. 8, 17: 90]. ation: Caucasus. Uzbekistan. SYNONYMS: Eulinognathus denticulatus den ticulatus Cummings: Wemeck, 1940. - 1/ allactagae Johnson, 1957 [J. Egypt. Publ. Eulinognathus denticulatus surdasteri Hlth. Assoc. 32: 278]. Wemeck, 1940. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Allactaga sibirica TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Pedetes capensis (Forster) (Rodentia: Dipodidae: Allacta (Forster) (Rodentia: Pedetidae). ginae). TYPE LOCALITY: Not stated. TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: DISTRIBUTION: Angola. Botswana. Kenya. Gansu Prov., Chin-ning-chow. Mozambique. South Africa. DISTRIBUTION: Mongolia. People's Republic of China: Gansu Prov., Nei Monggol. dipodis Blagoveshtchensky, 1965 [Entomol. Rev. (Entomol. Obozr., USSR) 44: 89]. ;/americanus Ewing, 1923 [J. Washington TYPE HOST: Dipus sagitta (Pallas) (Rodentia: Acad. Sci. 13: 148]. Dipodidae). TYPE HOST: Ctenomys brasiliensis Blainville PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Allactaga sibirica (Forster), (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae). D. sagitta (Rodentia: Dipodidae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Ctenomys sericeus J. A. Al TYPE LOCALITY: Kazakhstan: Samara Dis len, C. talarum Thomas, C. torquatus Lich trict, near Sarybel'. tenstein, C. brasiliensis, C. haigi Thomas, DISTRIBUTION: Kazakhstan. Mongolia. 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 53 NOTES: The host species ofAllactaga is in the PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Allactaga elator (Lichten Allactaginae; Dipus is in the Dipodinae stein), A. tetradactyla, Jaculusjaculus (Lin (Holden, 1993a). naeus) (Rodentia: Dipodidae: Dipodinae). TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt: Western Desert Gov elateri Chirov and Ozerova, 1990 [Parazy ernorate, Burg el Arab. tologiya 24: 285]. DISTRIBUTION: Egypt. Kazakhstan. Turkey. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Allactaga elater NOTES: Here again each host genus is in a (Lichtenstein) (Rodentia: Dipodidae: AI different subfamily (Holden, 1993a). lactaginae). TYPE LOCALITY: Kyrkyzstan. viilli (Bedford, 1929) [Annu. Rep. Dir. Vet. DISTRIBUTION: Kyrgyzstan. Serv., Union S. Africa 15: 506]. SYNONYMs: Bathyergicola hilli Bedford, 1929. \ eremodipodis Blagoveshtchensky, 1965 [En - Proenderleinellus hilli (Bedford): Bed tomol. Rev. (Entomol. Obozr., USSR) 44: ford, 1932. 89]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Cryptomys hot TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Eremodipus lich tentotus (Lesson) (Rodentia: Bathyergi tensteini (Vinogradov) (Rodentia: Dipod dae). idae: Dipodinae). TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Natal, Pieter TYPE LOCALITY: Kazakhstan: N. Kara-kum, maritzburg. 100 km SE of the Aral Sea Station. DISTRIBUTION: Botswana. South Africa. DISTRIBUTION: Kazakhstan. ,1lypogeomydis Paulian, 1961 [Bull. Soc. En- \ euchoreutae Cais, 1977 [Bull. Acad. Pol. Sci., ,/ tomol. France 66: 122]. Ser. BioI. 25: 463]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Hypogeomys an SYNONYM: Eulinognathus euchoreutei Chin, A. Grandidier (Rodentia: Muridae: 1984. timena Nesomyinae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Euchoreutes naso TYPE LOCALITY: Western Madagascar: Mo Sc1ater (Rodentia: Dipodidae: Euchoreu rondava. tinae). DISTRIBUTION: Madagascar. TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: Xinjiang Prov., Aksu, Zhamu-tai. inermis Cais, 1977 [Bull. Acad. Pol. Sci., Ser. DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: BioI. 25: 466]. Nei Monggol, Xinjiang Provo TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Paradipus cteno dactylus (Vinogradov) (Rodentia: Dipodi \ gentilis Blagoveshtchensky, 1965 [Entomol. dae: Paradipodinae). Rev. (Entomol. Obozr. USSR) 44: 88]. TYPE LOCALITY: Uzbekistan: Turtkul, Ajka TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Allactaga elater mysh. (Lichtenstein) (Rodentia: Dipodidae: Di DISTRIBUTION: Uzbekistan. podinae). TYPE LOCALITY: Turkmenistan: near Ashkha jaculi Blagoveshtchensky, 1965 [Entomol. bad. Rev. (Entomol. Obozr., USSR) 44: 89]. DISTRIBUTION: Afghanistan. Armenia. Taji TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Jaculus turcmen kistan. Turkmenistan. icus Vinogradov and Bondar (Rodentia: Dipodidae: Dipodinae). vb.epperi Ronderos and Capri, 1969 [Rev. Soc. TYPE LOCALITY: Turkmenistan: former Ne Entomol. Argentina 31: 69]. bit-Dag District, the well at Chagyl. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Lagidium viscacia DISTRIBUTION: Turkmenistan. (Molina) (Rodentia: Chinchillidae). TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina: San Juan, Valle 1..--- lawrensis (Bedford, 1929) [Annu. Rep. Dir. Fertil. Vet. Serv., Union S. Africa 15: 506]. DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. SYNONYMs: Bathyergicola lawrensis Bedford, /'hesperius Johnson, 1957 [J. Egypt. Publ. Hlth. 1929. - Proenderleinellus lawrensis (Bed Assoc. 32: 280]. ford): Bedford, 1932. TYPE HOST: Allactaga tetradactyla (Lichten TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Bathyergus suillus stein) (Rodentia: Dipodidae). (Schreber) (Rodentia: Bathyergidae). 54 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Cape Provo PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Ctenomys mendocinus Phi DISTRIBUTION: South Africa. lippi, C. torquatus (Rodentia: Ctenomyi dae). V;ophiomydis (Ferris, 1932) [Contributions to TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina: Entre Rios Prov., ward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part Rosario del Tala. V, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. Sci. 2(5}: 315]. NOTES: The type host was originally reported SYNONYM: Bathyergicola lophiomydis Ferris, as Ctenomys brasiliensis Blainville but was 1932. later reidentified as C. torquatus (Castro TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Lophiomys im and Cicchino, 1986). As currently under hausi Milne-Edwards (Rodentia: Muridae: stood, the former occurs in eastern Brazil, Lophiomyinae). the latter in Uruguay, northeastern Argen TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya: Mount Garguez (= tina, and extreme southern Brazil (Woods, Mount Uraguess). 1993: 787). Later, however, Castro and DISTRIBUTION: Kenya. Cicchino (1990) claimed that the type host ~ .. patagonicus Castro and Cicchino, 1986 [Rev. was listed incorrectly as Ctenomys torqua Bras. Entomol. 30: 381]. tus and should be C. "chasiquensis" Con TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Ctenomys sericeus treras. We have not been able to find this J. A. Allen (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae). name in any synonymy of Ctenomys or any TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina: Chubut Provo other South American rodent and suspect DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. Patagonia. it has not yet been published. Until the identity of "chasiquensis" is illuminated, pygerethmi Blagoveshtchensky, 1965 [Ento- the type host should be listed as C. tor mol. Rev. (Entomol. Obozr., USSR) 44: quatus. 89]. TYPE HOST: Pygeretmus shitkovi (Kusnetzov) ,wernecki Castro and Cicchino, 1986 [Rev. (Rodentia: Dipodidae: Allactaginae). Bras. Entomol. 30: 379]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Pygeretmus platyurus TYPE HOST: Ctenomys latro Thomas (Roden (Lichtenstein), P. shitkovi (Rodentia: Di tia: Ctenomyidae). podidae: Allactaginae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Ctenomys tucumanus Tho TYPE LOCALITY: Kazakhstan: southwestern mas, C. latro (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae). shores of Lake Balkhash, village of Buru TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina: Tucuman Prov., baytal. Tapia. DISTRIBUTION: Kazakhstan. DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. c scirtopodae Blagoveshtchensky, 1965 [En tomol. Rev. (Entomol. Obozr., USSR) 44: ~ FAHRENHOLZIA Kellogg and Ferris, 1915 90]. [Anoplura and Mallophaga of North TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Stylodipus te/um American mammals, Stanford Univ. Publ. (Lichtenstein) (Rodentia: Dipodidae: Di Univ. Ser., no vol. no., p. 32]. podinae), 12 species in genus. TYPE LOCALITY: Kazakhstan: Naruzumskiy TYPE OF GENUS: F. pinnata. pine forest, 250 km S of Kustanay. HOSTS: Rodentia: mainly Heteromyidae; a DISTRIBUTION: Kazakhstan. few records from Echimyidae and Muri dae: Sigmodontinae. tokmaki Chirov and Ozerova, 1990 [Para zytologiya 24: 284]. ~ boleni McDaniel, 1968 [Ann. Entomol. Soc. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Allactaga major Am. 61: 402]. (Kerr) (Rodentia: Dipodidae: Dipodinae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Perognathus fla TYPE LOCALITY: Kyrgyzstan. vus Baird (Rodentia: Heteromyidae). DISTRIBUTION: Kyrgyzstan. TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Texas, Kenedy Coun ty, 10 mi S of Rivera. / torquatus Castro, 1982 [Rev. Mus. La Plata, DISTRIBUTION: USA: Texas. Buenos Aires (new ser.), 13: 26]. TYPE HOST: Ctenomys torquatus Lichtenstein y ehrlichi Johnson, 1962 [Ann. Entomol. Soc. (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae). Am. 55: 417]. 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 55 TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Liomys irroratus TYPE HOST: Dipodomys cali/ornicus Merriam (Gray) (Rodentia: Heteromyidae). (Rodentia: Heteromyidae). TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico: Zacatecas State, PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Dipodomys deserti Ste Valparaiso. phens, D. heermanni Le Conte, D. merria DISTRIBUTION: Mexico. USA: Texas. mi Mearns, D. microps (Merriam), D. ordii Woodhouse, D. phillipsii Gray, D. specta ~. fairchildiJohnson, 1962 [Ann. Entomol. Soc. bilis Merriam, D. cali/ornicus, Microdipo Am. 55: 419]. dops megacephalus Merriam, Perognathus TYPE HOST: Heteromys desmerestianus Gray flavescens Merriam, P. flavus Baird, P. in (Rodentia: Heteromyidae). Johnson ornatus Merriam, P. longimembris (Coues), (1972b) suggested that the type host iden P. parvus (Peale), Chaetodipus pencillatus tification was in error and that this was Woodhouse (Rodentia: Heteromyidae). probably in reality Liomys adspersus (Pe TYPE LOCALITY: USA: California, Mendocino ters). County, Covelo. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Liomys salvini (Thomas), DISTRIBUTION: Canada: British Columbia. L. adspersus (Rodentia: Heteromyidae). Mexico. USA: Arizona, California, Kan TYPE LOCALITY: Panama: Santa Fe. sas, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Or DISTRIBUTION: Guatemala. Nicaragua. Pan egon, Texas, Utah. ama. NOTES: The host species are scattered in two C/ ferrisi Werneck, 1952 [Rev. Bras. BioI. 12: subfamilies, the Dipodomyinae (species of 73]. Dipodomys and Microdipodops) and Per TYPE HOST: Heteromys goldmani Merriam ognathinae (species of Perognathus and (Rodentia: Heteromyidae). Chaetodipus) (Patton, 1993: 477). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Heteromys desmarestianus Gray, H. guameri J. A. Allen and Chap yreducta Ferris, 1922 [Contributions toward a man, H. goldmani (Rodentia: Heteromy monograph of the sucking lice, Part III, idae). Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico: Vera Cruz, Achotal. 2(3): 165]. DISTRIBUTION: Guatemala. Mexico. Nicara SYNONYM: Fahrenholzia tribulosa reducta gua. Panama. Ferris, 1922. TYPE HOST: Chaetodipus formosus Merriam v hertigi Johnson, 1962 [Ann. Entomol. Soc. (Rodentia: Heteromyidae). Am. 55: 421]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Chaetodipus baileyi Mer TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Heteromys des riam, C. formosus, Perognathus parvus merestianus Gray (Rodentia: Heteromyi Peale (Rodentia: Heteromyidae). dae). TYPE LOCALITY: USA: California, Victorville. TYPE LOCALITY: Panama: Cerro Azul. DISTRIBUTION: Mexico. Western USA. DISTRIBUTION: Panama. v/microcephala Ferris, 1922 [Contributions to J-; schwartzi Werneck, 1952 [Rev. Bras. BioI. ward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part 12: 70]. . III, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI TYPE HOST: Heteromys anoma'lus (Thomp Sci. 2(3): 161]. son) (Rodentia: Heteromyidae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Liomys pictus PRINCIPAL HOSTS: H. anomalus (Rodentia: (Thomas) (Rodentia: Heteromyidae). Heteromyidae), Oryzomys albigularis' TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico: Vera Cruz, San Car (Tomes), Zygodontomys brevicaudd (J. A. los. Allen and Chapman) (Rodentia: Muridae: DISTRIBUTION: Mexico. Sigmodontinae), Proechimys semispinosus l (Tomes) (Rodentia: Echimyidae). (,/ pinnata Kellogg and Ferris, 1915 [Anoplura TYPE LOCALITY: Venezuela: Aragua State, Si and Mallophaga of North American mam erra Maestra, Campamento Rafael Rangel. mals, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser. no DISTRIBUTION: Colombia. Trinidad. Vene vol. no., p. 32]. zuela. SYNONYM: F ahrenholzia fahrenholzi Eichler, NOTES: The curious host associations of this 1950. louse need to be investigated further. How- 56 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 ever, Johnson (1972a) considered the non africanus Bedford, 1934 [Onderstepoort J. heteromyid host records to be valid. Vet. Sci. Anim. Ind. 2: 48]. TYPE HOST: Lepus victoriae Thomas (Lago texana Stojanovich and Pratt, 1961 [Ann. morpha: Leporidae). Entomo1. Soc. Am. 54: 693]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Lepus capensis Linnaeus, TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Liomys irroratus L. victoriae (Lagomorpha: Leporidae). (Gray) (Rodentia: Heteromyidae). TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Transvaal, J er TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Texas, Cameron icho. County, Noriegas Wildlife Refuge. DISTRIBUTION: Mauritania. South Africa. DISTRIBUTION: Mexico. USA: Texas. /tribulosa Ferris, 1922 [Contributions toward v conformalis Blagoveshtchensky, 1965 [En a monograph of the sucking lice, Part III, tomo1. Rev. (Entomo1. Obozr., USSR) 44: Stanford Univ. Pub1. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. 90]. 2(3): 163]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Lepus tolai Pallas SYNONYM: Fahrenholzia tribulosa tribulosa (Lagomorpha: Leporidae). Ferris, 1922. TYPE LOCALITY: Kazakhstan: Alma-Ata Prov., TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Chaetodipus cal Chilik District, Bartogoy. ifornicus Merriam (Rodentia: Heteromyi DISTRIBUTION: Kazakhstan. Kyrgyzstan. Ta dae). jikistan. TYPE LOCALITY: USA: California, Mariposa County, Pleasant Valley. ~. leporis Blagoveshtchensky, 1966 [Entomo1. DISTRIBUTION: USA: Arizona, California. Rev. (Entomo1. Obozr., USSR) 45: 459]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Lepus timidus V zacatecae Ferris, 1922 [Contributions toward Linnaeus (Lagomorpha: Leporidae). a monograph of the sucking lice, Part III, TYPE LOCALITY: Russian Federation: Sverd Stanford Univ. Pub1. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. lovsk Prov., former Ivdel' District, Pono 2(3): 166]. marev. SYNONYM: Fahrenholzia tribulosa zacatecae DISTRIBUTION: Kyrgyzstan. Norway. Russian Ferris, 1922. Federation: Siberia, Svedlovsk, Yakutia TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Chaetodipus his Sakha. Ukraine. pidus Baird (Rodentia: Heteromyidae). TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico: Zacatecas State, ~ lyriocephalus (Burmeister, 1839) [Genera In Valparaiso. sectorum, Rhynchota, Species 11]. DISTRIBUTION: Mexico. Western USA. SYNONYMs: Pediculus lyriocephalus Burmeis [/ GALEOPHTHIRUS Eichler, 1950 [Boll. ter, 1839. - Haematopinus lyriocephalus Soc. Entomo1. Italiana 79: 12]. (Burmeister): Denny, 1842. - Pediculus 1 species in genus. lyriceps Nitzsch, 1864. - Haematopinus TYPE OF GENUS: G. caviae. (Polyplax) lyriocephalus (Burmeister): HOSTS: Rodentia: Caviidae. Neumann, 1909. TYPE HOST: Lepus timidus Linnaeus (Lago vcaviae (Werneck, 1934) [Mem. Inst. Oswaldo morpha: Leporidae). Cruz, Rio de Janeiro 29: 183]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Lepus europaeus Pallas, L. SYNONYM: Eulinognathus caviae Werneck, sinensis Gray, L. tolai Pallas, L. arcticus 1934. Ross, L. timidus (Lagomorpha: Lepori TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Galea musteloides Meyen (Rodentia: Caviidae). dae). TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina: Jujuy. DISTRIBUTION: Eurasia. Also on introduced DISTRIBUTION: Argentina. hares in New Zealand (Tenquist and HAEMODIPSUS Enderlein, 1904 [Zoo1. Charleston, 1981) and possibly elsewhere. Anz. 28: 139]. Emerson et a1. (1984) recorded this louse 6 species in genus. from L. californicus in Oregon, USA, but TYPE OF GENUS: H. lyriocephalus. this is presumed to reflect a louse misiden HOSTS: Lagomorpha: Leporidae. tification. 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 57 v setoni Ewing, 1924 [Am. J. Trop. Med. 3: NOTES: The type host of this louse is consid 548]. ered to represent an accidental host asso TYPE HOST: Lepus cali/omicus Gray (Lago ciation (Kim and Adler, 1982). The host morpha: Leporidae). genera are allocated to two tribes, the Pro PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Lepus americanus Erxle toxerini (Heliosciurus) and Funambulini ben, L. timidus Linnaeus, L. townsendii (Funisciurus and Paraxerus) (Moore, 1959). Bachman, L. cali/omicus, L. tolai Pallas, Vheliosciuri (Cummings, 1913) [Bull. Ento Sylvilagus audubonii (Baird), S. nuttalli mol. Res. 3: 393]. (Bachman) (Lagomorpha: Leporidae). SYNONYM: Neohaematopinus heliosciuri TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Kansas, near Wichita. Cummings, 1913. DISTRIBUTION: North America. Eurasia (pos TYPE HOST: Paraxerus palliatus (Peters) (Ro sibly an introduced species in Eurasia). dentia: Sciuridae). ~entricosus (Denny, 1842) [Monographia PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Paraxerus alexandri (Tho Anoplurorum Brittaniae, p. 30]. mas and Wroughton), P. boehmi (Reichen SYNONYMs: Haematopinus ventricosus Den ow), P. cepapi (A. Smith), P. ochraceus ny, 1842. - Haematopinus (Polyplax) ven (Huet), P. palliatus (Rodentia: Sciuridae). tricosus (Denny): Neumann, 1909. - Po TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya: Witu, Uchweni For lyplax ventricosa (Denny): Evans, 1913. - est. H aemodipsus janckei Blagoveschtchensky, DISTRIBUTION: Botswana. Kenya. Malawi. 1966. Mozambique. Namibia. Somalia. South TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Oryctolagus cun Africa. Tanzania. Zaire. Zimbabwe. iculus (Linnaeus) (Lagomorpha: Lepori \.<' keniae (Ferris, 1923) [Contributions toward dae). a monograph of the sucking lice, Part IV, TYPE LOCALITY: England. Stanford Univ. Pubi. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan (original range 2(4): 258]. presumably Iberia and possibly northwest SYNONYMs: Neohaematopinus keniae Ferris, Africa [Hoffmann, 1993: 822]). 1923. - Neohaematopinus kenyae Ferris: NOTES: Records of this louse from the lepor Ferris, 1951. ids Lepus townsendii Bachman and Sylvi TYPE HOST: Heliosciurus rufobrachium (Wa lagus audubonii (Baird) in North America, terhouse) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). and from Lepus saxatilis F. Cuvier in South PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Funisciurus anerythrus Africa are almost certainly in error or re (Thomas), F. carruthersi Thomas, Helios flect accidental host-parasite associations ciurus punctatus (Temminck), H. rufob (Beaucoumu, 1968; Kim et aI., 1986). rachium, H. ruwenzorii (Schwann), H. JOHNSONPTHIRUS Benoit, 1961 [Rev. gambianus (Ogilby), Paraxerus boehmi Zooi. Bot. Africaines 63: 238]. (Reichenow), P. cepapi (A. Smith) (Roden 5 species in genus. tia: Sciuridae). TYPE OF GENUS: J. chlorotalpae. TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya: Mt. Kenia. HOSTS: Rodentia: Sciuridae. DISTRIBUTION: Dahomey. Kenya. Liberia. Namibia. Rwanda. Tanzania. Uganda. <---. chlorotalpae Benoit, 1961 [Rev. Zooi. Bot. Zaire. Africaines 63: 239]. TYPE HOST: Chrysochloris stuhlmanni Mat tApinosissimus (Benoit, 1969) [Rev. Zooi. Bot. schie (Insectivora: Chrysochloridae). Africaines 80: 108]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Funisciurus anerythrus SYNONYM: Alenapthirus spinosissimus Be (Thomas), F. pyrrhopus (F. Cuvier), He noit, 1969. liosciurus rufobrachium (Waterhouse), TYPE HOST: Paraxerus boehmi (Reichenow) Paraxerus alexandri (Thomas and (Rodentia: Sciuridae). Wroughton), P. boehmi (Reichenow) (Ro PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Funisciurus anerythrus dentia: Sciuridae). (Thomas), Paraxerus alexandri (Thomas TYPE LOCALITY: Zaire: Kivu, Lemera. and Wroughton), P. boehmi (Rodentia: DISTRIBUTION: Tanzania. Uganda. Zaire. Sciuridae). 58 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 / TYPE LOCALITY: Rwanda: Uinka (Shangugu). V/petterorum Paulian, 1958 [Mem. Inst. Sci. DISTRIBUTION: Rwanda. Zaire. Madagascar, Ser. Entomol. 9: 17]. TYPE HOST: Lepilemur sp. (Primates: Mega f suahelicus (Ferris, 1923) [Contributions to ladapidae). ward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part PRINCIPAL HOST: Lepilemur mustelinus I. IV, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. Geoffroy (Primates: Megaladapidae). Sci. 2(4): 258]. TYPE LOCALITY: Eastern Madagascar: Am SYNONYM: Neohaematopinus suahelicus Fer polomita, near Belanitra, Ambatolampy ris, 1923. District, lichen forest beneath herb forest. TYPE HOST: Paraxerus palliatus (Peters) (Ro DISTRIBUTION: Madagascar. dentia: Sciuridae). NOTES: Groves (1993) has summarized the PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Paraxerus cepapi (A. taxonomy of Madagascar primates. Smith), P. ochraceus (Huet), P. palliatus (Rodentia: Sciuridae). verruculosus (Ward, 1951) [Entomol. News TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya. 62: 190]. DISTRIBUTION: Kenya. Mozambique. South SYNONYM: Lemurphthirus verruculosus Ward, Africa. Tanzania. 1951. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: "Mouse lemur;" LAGIDIOPHTHIRUS Eichler, 1950 [Boll. this must be either Cheirogaleus sp. or Mi Soc. Entomol. Italiana 79: 12]. crocebus sp. (Primates: Cheirogaleidae). 1 species in genus. TYPE LOCALITY: Madagascar: Tulear Prov., TYPE OF GENUS: L. parvus. Fort Dauphin District, Bemangidy. HOSTS: Rodentia: Chinchillidae. DISTRIBUTION: Madagascar. ~ parvus (Kellogg and Ferris, 1915) [Anoplura and Mallophaga of North American mam ; LEMURPHTHIRUS Bedford, 1927 [Para- mals, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., no sitology 19: 263]. vol. no., p. 30]. 3 species in genus. SYNONYMs: H aemodipsus parvus Kellogg and TYPE OF GENUS: L. galagus. Ferris, 1915. - Eulinognathus parvus HOSTS: Primates: Galagonidae. (Kellogg and Ferris): Ferris, 1932. TYPE HOST: Lagidium peruanum Meyen (Ro { galagus Bedford, 1927 [Parasitology 19: 263]. dentia: Chinchillidae). TYPE HOST: Galago moholi A. Smith (Pri PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Lagidium viscacia (Moli mates: Galagonidae). na), L. peruanum (Rodentia: Chinchilli PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Galagoides demidoff (Fi dae). scher), Galago senegalensis E. Geoffroy, G. TYPE LOCALITY: Peru. moholi (Primates: Galagonidae). DISTRIBUTION: Bolivia. Peru. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Transvaal, On NOTES: In addition to the type material from derstepoort. Lagidium peruanum, this louse has been DISTRIBUTION: Burkina Faso. Congo. Daho recorded from Lagidium inca from La Paz, mey. Namibia. South Africa. Zaire. Bolivia. The taxon inca is a synonym of L. NOTES: See Groves (1993) for a taxonomic peruanum, which occurs in central and summary of galagos. southern Peru. The species in Bolivia is L. c stigmosus Ferris, 1954 [Ann. Natal Mus. 13: viscacia, with a geographic range appar 92]. ently allopatric to that of L. peruanum, TYPE HOST: Otolemur crassicaudatus (E. Geof which is known only from Peru (Woods, froy) (Primates: Galagonidae). 1993: 778). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Galagoides demidoff (Fi "LEMURPEDICULUSPaulian, 1958 [Mem. scher), Galago senegalensis E. Geoffroy, O. Inst. Sci. Madagascar, Ser. Entomol. 9: 17]. crassicaudatus (Primates: Galagonidae). 2 species in genus. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Natal, near TYPE OF GENUS: L. petterorum. Pietermaritzburg. HOSTS: Primates: Cheirogaleidae, Megala DISTRIBUTION: Angola. Burkina Faso. Mo dapidae. zambique. Rwanda. South Africa. Zaire. 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 59 ~ vincenti Pajot, 1968 [Cah. ORSTOM Ser. En TYPE LOCALITY: USA: South Dakota, Pen tomol. Med. 6: 192]. nington County, Box Elder. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Galagoides de DISTRIBUTION: USA: South Dakota. midoff (Fischer) (Primates: Galagonidae). faurei Bedford, 1920 [Rep. Dir. Vet. Res. TYPE LOCALITY: Congo: Brazzaville. Union S. Africa 7-8: 710]. DISTRIBUTION: Congo. SYNONYM: Neohaematopinus faurei (Bed LINOGNATHOIDES Cummings, 1914 ford): Ferris, 1932. [Bull. Entomol. Res. 5: 159]. TYPE HOST: Xerus inaurius (Zimmerman) 11 species in genus. (Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE OF GENUS: L. citelli (as L. spermophili PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Xerus princeps (Thomas), preoccupied). X. inaurius (Rodentia: Sciuridae). HOSTS: Rodentia: Sciuridae. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Orange Free State, Bloemfontein. baibacinae (Blagoveshtchensky, 1965) [En DISTRIBUTION: Angola. Botswana. Namibia. tomol. Rev. (Entomol. Obozf., USSR) 44: South Africa. Zimbabwe. 90]. ; laeviusculus (Grube, 1851) [MiddendorfPs SYNONYM: Neohaematopinus baibacinae Bla Reise, Parasiten 2: 498]. goveshtchensky, 1965. SYNONYMS: Pediculus laeviusculus Grube, TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Marmota baiba 1851. - Haematopinus laeviusculus cina Kastschenko (Rodentia: Sciuridae). (Grube): Giebel, 1874. - Haematopinus TYPE LOCALITY: Kazakhstan: Alma-Ata Prov., montanusOsborn, 1896. - Haematopinus Sarygulat. columbianus Osborn, 1900. - Polyplax DISTRIBUTION: Kazakhstan. laeviuscula (Grube): Enderlein, 1904. - NOTES: Blagoveshtchensky (1965) originally Polyplax columbiana (Osborn): Enderlein, placed this louse in the genus Neohaema 1908. - Linognathoides montanus (Os topinus. However, Durden (1991a) sug born): Kellogg and Ferris, 1915. - Ender gested that it should correctly be placed in leinellus laeviusculus (Grube): Fahrenholz, Linognathoides as defined by Kim and Ad 1916. - N eohaematopinus laeviusculus ler (1982) and this action has been taken (Grube): Ferris, 1923. - Neohaematopi here. The host association, thoracic sternal nus patiki Rubin, 1946. - Neohaemato plate, female subgenital plate, and other pinus laeviusculus bulgaricus Touleshkov, characters are typical of Linognathoides not 1957. Neohaematopinus as these two genera are TYPE HOST: Spermophilus parryii (Richard currently interpreted (Kim and Adler, son) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). 1982). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Ammospermophilus leu curus (Merriam), Spermophilus beecheyi v/ citelliCummings, 1916 [Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (Richardson), S. beldingi Merriam, S. ci Ser. 8, 17: 107]. tellus (Linnaeus), S. columbianus (Ord), S. SYNONYMS: Linognathoides spermophili dauricus Brandt, S. erythrogenys Brandt, Cummings, 1914 (preoccupied). - Neo S. franklinii (Sabine), S. fulvus (Lichten haematopinus citelli (Cummings): Ferris, stein), S. lateralis (Say), S. major (Pallas), 1923. S. pygmaeus (Pallas), S. richardsonii (Sa TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Spermophilopsis bine), S. suslicus (Guldenstaedt), S. town leptodactylus (Lichtenstein) (Rodentia: sendii Bachman, S. tridecemlineatus Sciuridae). (Mitchill), S. undulatus (Pallas), S. varie TYPE LOCALITY: Transcaspia. gatus (Erxleben), S. washingtoni (A. H. DISTRIBUTION: Turkmenistan. Howell), S. parryii (Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE LOCALITY: Russia: Yakutia-Sakha. I( cynomyis Kim, 1986 [Proc. Entomol. Soc. DISTRIBUTION: Holarctic region. Washington 88: 354]. NOTES: The host species are divided among TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Cynomys ludov several subgenera of Spermophilus (Hoff icianus (Ord) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). mann et aI., 1993). 60 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 v marmotae (Ferris, 1923) [Contributions to DISTRIBUTION: Algeria. Morocco. ward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part NOTES: Ferris (1951) incorrectly stated that IV, Stanford Univ. Pubi. Univ. Ser., BioI. the type material ofthis louse was collected Sci. 2(4): 268]. in South Africa. SYNONYMS: Neohaematopinus marmotae Ferris, 1923. - Neohaematopinus mathe v relictus (Dubinin, 1948) [Dokl. Akad. Nauk., soni Rubin, 1946. SSSR 62: 417]. TYPE HOST: Marmota flaviventris (Audubon SYNONYMs: Neohaematopinus relict us Du and Bachman) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). binin, 1948. - Neohaematopinus relectus PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Marmota caligata (Es Dubinin: Ward, 1952. chscho1tz), M. monax (Linnaeus), M. fla TYPE HOST: Spermophilus glacialis (Vinogra viventris (Rodentia: Sciuridae). dov) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE LOCALITY: USA: California, Yosemite TYPE LOCALITY: Russian Federation: Yaku National Park. tia-Sakha, El'g River system (left tributary DISTRIBUTION: Western North America. of Indigirka River), Diriniura River Val ley. \ palaearctus (Olsoufjev, 1938) [Vses. Inst. Ek DISTRIBUTION: Russian Federation: Yakutia spero Med. Otd. Medit. Trudy, Moscow 3: Sakha. 210]. NOTES: This louse and its host were collected SYNONYM: Neohaematopinus palaearctus 01- as preserved subfossil remains and are un soufjev, 1938. known in present-day faunas. TYPE HOST: Marmota caudata (Geoffroy) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). v schizodactylus (Gerwe1, 1954) [Acta Parasi PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Marmota baibacina Kast toi. Pol. 2: 176]. schenko, M. bobak Muller, M. himalayana SYNONYM: Neohaematopinus schizodactylus (Hodgson), M. sibirica (Radde), M. cau Gerwe1, 1954. data (Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Spermophilus sus TYPE LOCALITY: Southern Kyrgyzstan: Ir ficus (Gu1denstaedt) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). keshtam. TYPE LOCALITY: Poland: Lublin District, DISTRIBUTION: Afghanistan. India: Jammu Mokre. and Kashmir State. Kyrgyzstan. Pakistan. DISTRIBUTION: Poland. Rumania. Ukraine. People's Republic of China: Gansu, Nei , traubi (Rubin, 1946) [Proc. Entomoi. Soc. Monggol, Qinghai, Sichuan, Xizang (Ti Washington 48: 120]. bet); Russian Federation: Altay, Transbai SYNONYM: Neohaematopinus traubi Rubin, kalia. Turkmenistan. 1946. NOTES: Zarubina (1961) used the name"N eo TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Spermophilus haematopinus palaearcticus [sic.] tarba adocetus (Merriam) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). gani Dub." for this louse which we rec TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico: Michaocan State. ognize as a synonym. However, we have DISTRIBUTION: Mexico. not been able to locate the original citation for the name tarbagani. I MIROPHTHIRUS Chin, 1980 [Acta Acad. Med. Guiyang 5: 95]. vpectinifer (Neumann, 1909) [Arch. Parasitoi. 1 species in genus. 13: 528]. TYPE OF GENUS: M. liae. SYNONYMs: Haematopinus setosus Piaget, HOSTS: Rodentia: Muridae: Platacanthomyi 1885 (preoccupied). - Haematopinus (Po nae. lyplax) pectinifer Neumann, 1909. - Lin ognathoides setosus (Piaget): Cummings, liae Chin, 1980 [Acta Acad. Med. Guiyang 1914. - Lutegus pectinifer (Neumann): 5: 95]. Fahrenholz, 1916. - Neohaematopinus TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Typhlomys ciner pectinifer (Neumann): Ferris, 1923. eus Milne-Edwards (Rodentia: Muridae: TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Atlantoxerus ge Platacanthomyinae). tulus (Linnaeus) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: TYPE LOCALITY: Not stated. Guizhou Provo 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 61 DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: Glyphotes simus Thomas, Lariscus ins ignis Giuzhou Provo (F. Cuvier), Sundasciurus tenuis (Hors field) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). NEOHAEMATOPINUS Mjoberg, 1910 TYPE LOCALITY: Thailand: Loei, Dan Sai, Kok [Arch. Zooi. 6: 160]. Sathon, Phu Lorn Lo Mt. 31 species in genus. DISTRIBUTION: Borneo. Peninsular Malaysia. TYPE OF GENUS: N. sciuropteri. People's Republic of China: Yunnan Provo HOSTS: Rodentia: Sciuridae, Muridae (Sig modontinae). Taiwan. Thailand. NOTES: Some authors (Corbet and Hill, 1992, NOTES: All the hosts are closely related in that they are members of the same tribe and for example) break the squirrels into two families, Pteromyidae for the flying squir subtribe (Moore, 1959). Corbet and Hill (1992: 293) considered simus a species of rels and Sciuridae for all the others. We Callosciurus but Hoffmann et ai. (1993: recognize these groups as subfamilies, as 428) retained it in Glyphotes. did Hoffmann et ai. (1993). ~ capitaneus Johnson, 1959 [Proc. U.S. Nati. t appressus Johnson, 1972 [Pac. Insects 14: Mus. 110: 587]. 389]. TYPE HOST: Hylopetes phayrei (Blyth) (Ro TYPE HOST: Tamiops rodolphei (Milne-Ed dentia: Sciuridae). wards) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Hylopetes spadiceus (Blyth), PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Tamiops macclellandi H. phayrei (Rodentia: Sciuridae). (Horsfield), T. rodolphei (Rodentia: Sci TYPE LOCALITY: Thailand: Chaiyaphum, uridae). Phukhieo, Ban Khon San. TYPE LOCALITY: Laos: 18 km NW of Xieng DISTRIBUTION: Peninsular Malaysia. Thai Khouang. land. DISTRIBUTION: Laos. NOTES: Chin (1985) proposed that N. ap \- ceylonicus Ferris, 1951 [Mem. Pac. Coast En press us might be a synonym ofN. chinensis tomol. Soc. 1: 190]. Blagoveshtchensky. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Funambulus pal marum (Linnaeus) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). Vbatuanae Ferris, 1923 [Contributions toward TYPE LOCALITY: Ceylon (= Sri Lanka): Co a monograph of the sucking lice, Part IV, lombo. Stanford Univ. Pubi. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. 2(4): 261]. DISTRIBUTION: Sri Lanka. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Petaurista pe chinensis Blagoveshtchensky, 1972 [Ento taurista (Pallas) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). mol. Rev. (Entomol. Obozr., USSR) 51: TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia: Batu Islands. 188]. DISTRIBUTION: Indonesia: Batu islands. Pen TYPE HOST: Tamiops swinhoei (Milne-Ed insular Malaysia. wards) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). NOTES: In the original description, Ferris PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Dremomys pernyi (Milne (1923) stated that the type locality was in Edwards), D. rufigenis (Blanford), T. swin Malaysia; however, the Batu islands are hoei (Rodentia: Sciuridae). situated off the west coast of Sumatra and TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: currently are part of Indonesia (Durden, Yunnan Prov., Hsiaomonyang. 1991a). DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: Yunnan Provo v callosciuri Johnson, 1959 [Proc. U.S. Nati. Mus. 110: 581]. " citellinus Ferris, 1942 [Microentomology 7: TYPE HOST: Callosciurus finlaysoni (Hors 85]. field) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE HOST: Spermophilus tereticaudus Baird PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Callosciurus caniceps (Rodentia: Sciuridae). (Gray), C. erythraeus (Pallas), C. inornatus PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Ammospermophilus harrisi (Gray), C. nigrovittatus (Horsfield), C. no (Audubon and Bachman), A. leucurus tatus (Boddaert), C. prevostii (Desmarest), (Merriam), Cynomys gunnisoni (Baird), C. pygerythrus (1. Geoffroy), C.finlaysoni, Spermophilus spilosoma Bennett, S. var- 62 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 iegatus (Erxleben), S. tereticaudus (Roden mammals, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., tia: Sciuridae). no vol. no., p. 25]. TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Arizona, Tucson. SYNONYMs: Linognatoides inornatus Kellogg DISTRIBUTION: Mexico. Western USA. and Ferris, 1915. - Ahaematopinus in ornatus (Kellogg and Ferris): Ewing, 1929. v cognatus Johnson, 1959 [Proc. U.s. Natl. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Neotoma cinerea Mus. 110: 583]. (Ord) (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodontin TYPE HOST: Menetes berdmorei (Blyth) (Ro ae). dentia: Sciuridae). TYPE LOCALITY: USA: California, Tehama PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Dremomys everetti (Tho County, South Yolla Bolly Mountain. mas), Exilisciurus whiteheadi (Thomas), DISTRIBUTION: Western North America. Sundasciurus jentinki (Thomas), M. berd morei (Rodentia: Sciuridae). kinabalensis Johnson, 1959 [Proc. U.S. Natl. TYPE LOCALITY: Thailand: Loei, Dan Sai, Kok Mus. 110: 589]. Sathon, Phu Lorn Lo Mt. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Hylopetes lepidus DISTRIBUTION: Borneo. Thailand. (Horsfield) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE LOCALITY: North Borneo (= Sabah): Mt. echinatus (Neumann, 1909) [Arch. Parasitol. Kinabalu, Tenompak. 13: 517]. DISTRIBUTION: Borneo. Thailand. SYNONYM: Haematopinus (Polyplax) echin atus Neumann, 1909. vmenetensis Blagoveshtchensky, 1972 [Ento TYPE HOST: Funambulus palmarum (Linnae mol. Rev. (Entomol. Obozr., USSR) 51: us) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). 188]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Funambulus pennantii TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Menetes berd Wroughton, F. tristriatus (Waterhouse), F. morei (Blyth) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). palmarum (Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: TYPE LOCALITY: India: Rajkote. Yunnan Prov., Ch'eli. DISTRIBUTION: India. Pakistan. Sri Lanka. DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: Yunnan Provo ~ elbeli Johnson, 1959 [Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. 110: 592]. e neotomae Ferris, 1942 [Microentomology 7: TYPE HOST: Dremomys rufigenis (Blanford) 84]. (Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE HOST: Neotoma albigula Hartley (Ro PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Dremomys pernyi (Milne dentia: Muridae: Sigmodontinae). Edwards), D. rufigenis (Rodentia: Sciuri PRINCIPAL HOSTS: H odomys alleni (Merriam), dae). Neotomajuscipes Baird, N. lepida Thomas, TYPE LOCALITY: Thailand: Loei, Dan Sai, Kok N. mexicana Baird, N. micropus Baird, N. Sathon, Phak Khi Nak Mt. albigula (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodon DISTRIBUTION: Peninsular Malaysia. People's tinae). Republic of China: Yunnan Provo Taiwan. TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Arizona, Tucson. Thailand. DISTRIBUTION: Mexico. Western USA. ,pacificus Kellogg and Ferris, 1915 [Anoplura f griseicolus Ferris, 1923 [Contributions to . and Mallophaga of North American mam ward a monograph ofthe sucking lice, Part mals, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., no IV, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. vol. no., p. 38]. Sci. 2(4): 248]. TYPE HOST: Tamias townsendii Bachman SYNONYM: Neohaematopinus sciurinus gris (Rodentia: Sciuridae). eicolus Ferris, 1923. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Tamias alpinus Merriam, TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Sciurus griseus Ord T. amoenus J. A. Allen, T. dorsalis Baird, (Rodentia: Sciuridae). T. merriami J. A. Allen, T. minimus Bach TYPE LOCALITY: USA: California, Marin man, T. quadrivittatus (Say), T. speciosus County, Inverness. Merriam, T. townsendii (Rodentia: Sciuri DISTRIBUTION: Mexico. Western USA. dae). inornatus (Kellogg and Ferris, 1915) [Ano TYPE LOCALITY: USA: California, Sonoma plura and Mallophaga of North American County, Freestone. 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 63 DISTRIBUTION: Western North America. ~ robustus Johnson, 1964 [Misc. Publ. Ento mol. Soc. Am. 4: 80]. l pallidus Johnson, 1964 [Misc. Publ. Ento TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Petaurista elegans mol. Soc. Am. 4: 80]. (Muller) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Petaurista pe TYPE LOCALITY: Peninsular Malaysia: Pa taurista (Pallas) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). hong, M t. Brinchang. TYPE LOCALITY: Thailand: Prachuap Khiri DISTRIBUTION: Peninsular Malaysia. Khan, Ban Khlua Klang. DISTRIBUTION: Peninsular Malaysia. Thai vtupestis Chin, 1985 [Entomotaxonomia 7: land. 42]. NOTES: The type host was recorded as Pe TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Sciurotamias/or taurista taylori from Thailand; that taxon resti (Thomas) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). is a synonym of P. petaurista (Corbet and TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: Hill, 1992: 309). Yunnan Provo DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: ~ pansus Johnson, 1964 [Misc. Publ. Entomol. Yunnan Provo Soc. Am. 4: 79]. TYPE HOST: Petaurillus hosei (Thomas) (Ro (/ sci uri Jancke, 1932 [Z. Parasitkd. 4: 241 dentia: Sciuridae). (1931)]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Petinomys vordermanni TYPE HOST: Sciurus vulgaris Linnaeus (Ro (Jentink), P. hosei (Rodentia: Sciuridae). dentia: Sciuridae). TYPE LOCALITY: North Borneo (= Sabah): PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Sciurus carolinensis Gme Ranau. lin, S. vulgaris (Rodentia: Sciuridae). DISTRIBUTION: Borneo. Peninsular Malaysia. TYPE LOCALITY: Germany: Naumberg. DISTRIBUTION: Holarctic; possibly intro (/ petauristae Ferris, 1923 [Contributions to duced to South Africa, Australia, and other ward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part areas on introduced S. carolinensis. IV, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. 2(4): 258]. I sciurinus (Mjoberg, 1910) [Arch. Zool. 6: SYNONYM: Petauristophthirus petauristae 161]. (Ferris): Eichler, 1949. SYNONYMS: Haematopinus antennatus Os TYPE HOST: Petaurista petaurista (Pallas) (Ro born, 1891. - Acanthopinus antennatus dentia: Sciuridae). (Osborn): Mjoberg, 1910. - Acanthopinus PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Petaurista alboru/us (Milne sciurinus Mjoberg, 1910. - Neohaemato Edwards), P. philippensis (Elliot), P. pe pinus antennatus (Osborn): Kellogg and taurista (Rodentia: Sciuridae). Ferris, 1915. - Neohaematopinus ma TYPE LOCALITY: Kashmir. crospinosus Fahrenholz, 1919. - Neohae DISTRIBUTION: India: Jammu and Kashmir matopinus sciurinus sciurinus (Mjoberg): State. People's Republic of China: Yunnan Ferris, 1923. Provo Taiwan. TYPE HOST: Sciurus niger Linnaeus (Roden tia: Sciuridae). v pteromydis Blagoveshtchensky, 1965 [Ento PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Sciurus granatensis Hum mol. Rev. (Entomol. Obozr., USSR) 44: boldt, S. alleni Nelson, S. aureogaster F. 91]. Cuvier, S. colliaei Richardson, S. deppei TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Pteromys volans Peters, S. oculatus Peters, S. niger (Roden (Linnaeus) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). tia: Sciuridae). TYPE LOCALITY: Russia: Vladivostok. TYPE LOCALITY: For Haematopinus anten DISTRIBUTION: Far eastern Russia. natus - USA: Iowa, Ames. For Acantho pinus sciurinus - Germany: Hamburg, ~ qadrii Khan and Khanum, 1980 [Pakistan J. Zoological Gardens. Zool. 12: 71]. DISTRIBUTION: Canada. Costa Rica. Mexico. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Funambulus pen USA. nantii Wroughton (Rodentia: Sciuridae). NOTES: Durden (1991 a) discussed the geo TYPE LOCALITY: Pakistan: Sind Prov., Thatta. graphical distribution and historical re DISTRIBUTION: Pakistan. cords of this louse. In Europe, the Neo- 64 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 haematopinus on tree squirrels was TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Sundasciurus ju- identified as N. sciurinus prior to the de- vencus (Thomas) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). scription of N. sciuri in 1932 although such TYPE LOCALITY: Philippines: Palawan Island, lice are still occasionally misidentified as Sitio Malabusog, Tinitian Barrio, Roxas. N. sciurinus to this day. Records of N. sci- DISTRIBUTION: Philippines: Palawan Island. urinus from Southeast Asian squirrels prior to the description of N. callosciuri should 0 syriacus Ferris, 1923 [Contributions toward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part IV, almost certainly be referred to the latter Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. species; this was the case for all such spec- 2(4): 250]. imens reexamined by Durden (199la). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Sciurus anomalus v sciuropteri (Osborn, 1891) [U.S. Dep. Agric., Gmelin (Rodentia: Sciuridae). Div. Entomol. Bull. (old series) 7: 23]. TYPE LOCALITY: Northern Syria. SYNONYM: Haematopinus sciuropteri Os- DISTRIBUTION: Syria. Turkey. born, 1891. TYPE HOST: Glaucomys volans (Linnaeus) ~ PHTHIRPEDICULUS Ewing, 1923 [J. (Rodentia: Sciuridae). Washington Acad. Sci. 13: 148]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Glaucomys sabrinus (Shaw), 3 species in genus. G. volans (Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE OF GENUS: P. propitheci. TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Iowa, Ames. HOSTS: Primates: Indridae, Lemuridae, Me DISTRIBUTION: North America. galadapidae. v/semifasciatus Ferris, 1916 [Psyche 23: 100]. v· avahidis Paulian, 1960 [Bull. Soc. Entomol. SYNONYM: Neohaematopinus antennatus France 65: 306]. semifasciatus Ferris, 1916. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Avahi laniger TYPE HOST: Tamiasciurus douglasii (Bach (Gme1in) (Primates: Indridae). man) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). TYPE LOCALITY: Western Madagascar: An PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Microsciurus alfari (J. A. karafantsika Forest. Allen), M. mimulus (Thomas), Sciurus gil DISTRIBUTION: Madagascar. vigularis Wagner, S. granatensis Hum NOTES: The type host of this louse was re boldt, S. variegatoides Ogilby, Tamiasciu corded as "Avahis laniger occidentalis." rus hudsonicus (Erxleben), T. douglasii Groves (1993) recognized A. laniger but (Rodentia: Sciuridae). noted that Rumpler et al. (1990) suggested TYPE LOCALITY: USA: California, Sonoma that occidentalis may be a distinct species. County, Freestone. vbrygooi Clay, 1977 [Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. DISTRIBUTION: Canada. Panama. USA. Ven- Nat. 320: 657]. ezuela. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Eulemur mongoz l/setosus Chin, 1985 [Entomotaxonomia 7: 44]. (Linnaeus) (Primates: Lemuridae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Dremomys pernyi TYPE LOCALITY: Madagascar: Majunga, Zoo (Milne-Edwards) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). logical Gardens. TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: DISTRIBUTION: Madagascar. Yunnan Provo 'v propitheci Ewing, 1923 [J. Washington Acad. DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: Sci. 13: 149]. Giuzhou, Yunnan Provs. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Lepilemur ed :/spilosomae Stojanovich and Pratt, 1961 [J. wardsi (Forbes) (Primates: Megaladapi Parasitol. 47: 312]. dae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Spermophilus spi TYPE LOCALITY: Eastern Madagascar: Am losoma Bennett (Rodentia: Sciuridae). bodiasy. TYPE LOCALITY: USA: New Mexico, Bernal DISTRIBUTION: Madagascar. illo County. POLYPLAX Enderlein, 1904 [Zool. Anz. 28: DISTRIBUTION: Mexico. Western USA. 142]. v sundasciuri Durden, 1991 [J. Med. Entomol. 78 species plus 1 nomen nudum in genus. 28: 694]. TYPE OF GENUS: P. spinulosa. 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 65 HOSTS: Rodentia: Abrocomidae, Muridae DISTRIBUTION: North America. Mexico. (Arvicolinae, Calomyscinae, Cricetinae, NOTES: This louse (as P. abscisa) was reported Cricetomyinae, Dendromurinae, Gerbilli from Microtus montebelli (Milne-Ed nae, Murinae, Mystromyinae, Nesomyi wards) in Japan by Suyemoto et ai. (1954), nae, Otomyinae, Rhizomyinae, Sigmo Scanlon (1954), and Kaneko (1955); these dontinae), Sciuridae. Insectivora: Soricidae. are considered to represent erroneous re / cords. V abyssinica Ferris, 1923 [Contributions to- ward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part ~. antennata Smetana, 1960 [Ceskoslovenska IV, Stanford Univ. Pubi. Univ. Ser., BioI. Parasitoi. 7: 213]. Sci. 2(4): 230]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Apodemus mys TYPE HOST: A rvica nth is niloticus (Desmarest) tacinus (Danford and Alston) (Rodentia: (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). Muridae: Murinae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Arvicanthis abyssinicus TYPE LOCALITY: Albania: Llogora. (Ruppell), A. niloticus, Arvicanthis sp. (Ro DISTRIBUTION: Albania. Bulgaria. dentia: Muridae: Murinae). LArvicanthis Bedford, 1919 [Rep. Div. Vet. TYPE LOCALITY: Uganda: Bugondo Teso. Res., Dept. Agric., Union S. Africa 5-6: DISTRIBUTION: Central African Republic. 716]. Cameroon. Egypt. Ethiopia. Kenya. Ni TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Rhabdomys pum geria. Uganda. Zaire. ilio (Sparrman) (Rodentia: Muridae: Mu NOTES: The host records from Kenya have rinae). to be left as Arvicanthis sp. At least two TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Transvaal, and possibly three species of Arvicanthis Pretoria, Onderstepoort. occur in Kenya (Musser and Carleton, 1993; DISTRIBUTION: Kenya. Mozambique. Na 576); we cannot provide realistic identifi mibia. South Africa. cations without examining the host vouch er specimens. vasiatica Ferris, 1923 [Contributions toward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part IV, Vacomydis Kim and Emerson, 1970 [Rev. Zooi. Stanford Univ. Pubi. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. Bot. Africaines 81: 396]. 2(4): 233]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Acomys spinos SYNONYMs: Polyplax turkestanica turkestan issimus Peters (Rodentia: Muridae: Muri ica Blagoveshtchensky, 1950. - Polyplax nae). turkestanica major Blagoveshtchensky, TYPE LOCALITY: Mozambique: Beira District, 1950. Vila Gouveia. TYPE HOST: Suncus murinus (Linnaeus) (In DISTRIBUTION: Mozambique. sectivora: Soricidae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Bandicota bengalensis valaskensis Ewing, 1927 [Proc. Entomoi. Soc. (Gray and Hardwicke), B. indica (Bech Washington 29: 118]. stein), ~Nesokia indica (Gray and Hard SYNONYM: Polyplax abscisa Fahrenholz, wicke), Rattus turkestanicus (Satunin) (Ro 1938. dentia: Muridae: Murinae). TYPE HOST: Microtus sp. (Rodentia: Muridae: TYPE LOCALITY: Burma (= Myanmar): Ran Arvicolinae). goon (= Yangon). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Lemmiscus curtatus (Cope), DISTRIBUTION: Egypt. India. Iran. Myanmar. Microtus breweri (Baird), M. californicus Pakistan. People's Republic of China. Tai (Peale), M. longicaudus (Merriam), M. wan. Tajikistan. Thailand. mexicanus (Saussure), M. miurus Osgood, NOTES: The host associations of this louse are M. montanus (Peale), M. ochrogaster unclear. Although it is occasionally col (Wagner), M. oeconomus (Pallas), M. ore lected from shrews (species of Suncus), the goni (Bachman), M. pennsylvanicus (Ord), rodents noted above appear to be the prin M. pinetorum (Le Conte), Synaptomys bo cipal hosts. realis (Richardson), S. cooperi Baird (Ro dentia: Muridae: Arvicolinae). auricularis Kellogg and Ferris, 1915 [Ano TYPE LOCALITY: USA: Alaska. plura and Mallophaga of North American 66 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 mammals, Stanford Univ. PubL Univ. Ser., PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Arvicola terrestris (Linnae no voL no., p. 13]. us), Clethrionomys centralis Miller, C. SYNONYMS: Polyplax auricularis var. califor glareolus (Schreber), C. ruti/us (Pallas), C. niae Fahrenholz, 1938. - Polyplax painei rufocanus, Phenacomys intermedius Mer Fahrenholz, 1938. riam (Rodentia: Muridae: Arvicolinae). TYPE HOST: Peromyscus maniculatus (Wag TYPE LOCALITY: Norway: Finnmark, Besken ner) (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodontinae). jarrga. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Onychomys leucogaster DISTRIBUTION: Northern Holarctic region. (Wied-Neuwied), O. torridus (Coues), t brachyrrhyncha Cummings, 1915 [Proc. ZooL Peromyscus aztecus (Saussure), P. califor Soc. London 2: 246]. nicus (Peale), P. crinitus (Merriam), P. dif SYNONYMs: Polyplax brachyrrhynchus Cum fleWs J. A. Allen, P. leucopus (Rafinesque), mings, 1915. - Symoca brachyrrhyncha P. melanotis J. A. Allen and Chapman, P. (Cummings): Fahrenholz, 1938. - Sym sitkensis Merriam, P. truei (Shufeldt), P. oca brachyrrhyncha var. minor Fahren zarhynchus Merriam, P. oreas Bangs, P. maniculatus, Reithrodontomys creper holz, 1939. TYPE HOST: Acomys cahirinus (Desmarest) Bangs, R. mexicanus (Saussure) (Rodentia: (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). Muridae: Sigmodontinae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Acomys russatus (Wagner), TYPE LOCALITY: USA: California, Marin Dollman, ci County, Inverness. A. cahirinus, A. percivali A. neraceus Fitzinger and Heuglin, Acomys sp. DISTRIBUTION: Canada. Mexico. Panama. (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae) . . USA. / TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt: Asyut. \! biseriata Ferris, 1923 [Contributions toward DISTRIBUTION: Dahomey. Egypt. Ethiopia. a monograph of the sucking lice, Part IV, Iran. IsraeL Kenya. Libya. Pakistan. Saudi Stanford Univ. PubL Univ. Ser., BioL Sci. Arabia. Togo. Uganda. 2(4}: 199]. NOTES: The host Acomys sp. was originally SYNONYM: Eremophthirius biseriatus (Fer recorded as A. cahirinus from Kenya (Dur ris): Fahrenholz, 1938. den, 1991b: 338). We have not seen the TYPE HOST: Tatera boehmi (Noack) (Roden specimen but it cannot be A. cahirinus and tia: Muridae: Gerbillinae). is probably either A. kempi Dollman or A. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Tatera afra (Gray), T. ignitus Dollman (see Musser and Carleton, brantsii (A. Smith), T. leucogaster (Peters), 1993: 565). T. valida (Bocage), T. boehmi (Rodentia: vbrachyuromyis Kim and Emerson, 1974 [J. Muridae: Gerbillinae). Med. EntomoL 11: 107]. TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya: South Guaso Nyiro TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Brachyuromys (= South Gwaso Nyiro). betsileoensis (Bartlett) (Rodentia: Muridae: DISTRIBUTION: Botswana. Kenya. Mozam Nesomyinae). bique. Namibia. South Africa. Zaire. Zam TYPE LOCALITY: Madagascar: Tamatave bia. Zimbabwe. Prov., Didy. / blanfordi Mishra and Dhanda, 1972 [J. Par DISTRIBUTION: Madagascar. asitoL 58: 396]. Vbullimae Johnson, 1958 [Bull. Brooklyn En TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Cremnomys blan tomoL Soc. 53: 76]. fordi (Thomas) (Rodentia: Muridae: Mu TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Bullimus bagobus rinae). Mearns (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). TYPE LOCALITY: India: Maharashtra State, TYPE LOCALITY: Philippines: Mindanao, E Poona District, Khandala, Borghat. slope ofMt. McKinley. DISTRIBUTION: India: Karnataka, Maharash DISTRIBUTION: Philippines: Mindanao. tra, Orissa States. I bureschi Touleshkov, 1957 [Bulg. Akad. I borealis Ferris, 1933 [Parasitology 25: 127]. Nauk. ZooL Inst. Izv. 6: 185]. , TYPE HOST: Clethrionomys rufocanus (Sun TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Spermophi/us ci devall) (Rodentia: Muridae: Arvicolinae). tellus (Linnaeus) (Rodentia: Sciuridae). 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 67 TYPE LOCALITY: Bulgaria: Sofia. kcummingsi Ferris, 1916 [Ann. Durban Mus. DISTRIBUTION: Bulgaria. 1: 240]. TYPE HOST: Dasymys incomtus (Sundevall) ;> calomysci Kim and Emerson, 1971 [J. Med. (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). Entomol. 8: 10]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Dasymys foxi Thomas, D. TYPE HOST: Calomyscus bailwardi Thomas nudipes (Peters), D. rufulus Miller, D. in (Rodentia: Muridae: Calomyscinae). comtus (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Calomyscus baluchi Tho TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Natal, Mfon mas, C. bailwardi (Rodentia: Muridae: gosi. Calomyscinae). DISTRIBUTION: Angola. Kenya. Liberia. Mo TYPE LOCALITY: Iran: Fars Prov., 1 km N of zambique. Nigeria. South Africa. Zaire. Persepolis. Zambia. DISTRIBUTION: Iran. Pakistan. NOTES: The host record from the Baluchistan [,/cutchicus Mishra and Kaul, 1973 [J. Med. region of Pakistan was reported as Calo Entomol. 10: 44]. myscus bailwardi (Durden et al., 1990: 229) TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Cremnomys but C. baluchi is the species in that area; cutchicus Wroughton (Rodentia: Muridae: C. bailwardi has only been recorded from Murinae). Iran and its geographic range is parapatric TYPE LOCALITY: India: Rajasthan State, Si to that of C. baluchi (Musser and Carleton, rohi District, Baneshwar (Bar ka Ghat). 1993: 535). DISTRIBUTION: India: Orissa, Rajasthan States. [/"caluri Johnson, 1960 [U.S. Dep. Agric. Tech. Bull. 1211: 74]. vdacnomydis Chin, 1990 [Entomotaxonomia TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Sekeetamys cal 12: 5]. urus (Thomas) (Rodentia: Muridae: Ger TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Dacnomys mil billinae). lardi Thomas (Rodentia: Muridae: Muri TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt: Sinai Governorate, nae). Wadi El Sheikh, near St. Catherine's Mon TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: astery. Yunnan Provo DISTRIBUTION: Egypt. DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: V cannomydis Johnson, 1959 [Proc. U.S. Natl. Yunnan Provo Mus. 110: 594]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Cannomys badius vdentaticornis Ewing, 1935 [Proc. BioI. Soc. (Hodgson) (Rodentia: Muridae: Rhizo Washington 48: 207]. myinae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Cricetulus longi TYPE LOCALITY: Thailand: Rat Buri, Ban caudatus (Milne-Edwards) (Rodentia: pong, Boekphrai. Muridae: Cricetinae). DISTRIBUTION: Thailand. TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: Shaanxi Prov. v(:hinensis Ferris, 1923 [Contributions toward DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: a monograph of the sucking lice, Part IV, Shaanxi Prov. Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser.,Biol. Sci. 2(4): 209]. >deomydis Benoit, 1965 [Rev. Zool. Bot. Af TYPE HOST: Meriones meridian us (Pallas) ricaines 71: 324]. (Rodentia: Muridae: Gerbillinae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Deomys ferrugi PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Meriones crassus Sundev neus Thomas (Rodentia: Muridae: Den all, M. meridian us (Rodentia: Muridae: dromurinae). Gerbillinae). TYPE LOCALITY: Zaire: Kivu, Rutshuru. TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: DISTRIBUTION: Rwanda. Zaire. Shaanxi Prov. NOTES: Curiously, this louse was described DISTRIBUTION: Mongolia. Pakistan. People's as new in two separate publications by P. Republic of China: Shaanxi Provo Tajikis L. G. Benoit. In addition to the earlier ci tan. Turkmenistan. tation given above, a description was given 68 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 with the following citation: Rev. Zool. Bot. the type host of this louse was "Cricetulus Africaines 80: 99 (1969). incanus." j dolichura Johnson, 1962 [Proc. Entomol. Soc. V~xpressa Johnson, 1964 [Misc. Publ. Ento Washington 64: 162]. mol. Soc. Am. 4: 84]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Acomys cinera TYPE HOST: Rattus sp. (Rodentia: Muridae: ceus Fitzinger and Heug1in (Rodentia: Murinae). Muridae: Murinae). PRINCIPAL HOST: Rattus everetti (Gunther) TYPE LOCALITY: Sudan: Blue Nile Prov., Ya (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). bous. TYPE LOCALITY: Philippines: Luzon, Mt. San DISTRIBUTION: Sudan. to Thomas. NOTES: The type host was originally recorded DISTRIBUTION: Philippines. as Acomys albigena from the Blue Nile V'gerbilli Ferris, 1923 [Contributions toward a Province of east-central Sudan. The name monograph of the sucking lice, Part IV, albigena is a synonym of A. cahirinus, but Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. that species occurs in northern Sudan and 2(4): 203]. is parapatric to the geographic distribution SYNONYM: Eremophthirius gerbilli (Ferris): ofA. cineraceus, which is found throughout Fahrenholz, 1938. central and southern Sudan (Musser and TYPE HOST: Gerbillus pyramidum I. Geoffroy Carleton, 1993: 565). (Rodentia: Muridae: Gerbillinae). V~llobii (Sosnina, 1955) [Trudy Zool. Inst. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Gerbillus allenbyi Thomas, Akad. Nauk SSSR 18: 308]. G. gerbillus (Olivier), G. latastei Thomas SYNONYM: Eremophthirius ellobii Sosnina, and Trouessart, G. pyramidum, Meriones 1955. libycus Lichtenstein (Rodentia: Muridae: TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Ellobius tancrei Gerbillinae). Blasius (Rodentia: Muridae: Arvicolinae). TYPE LOCALITY: Stated to be Khartum, Egypt, TYPE LOCALITY: Tajikistan: Voroshilovabad by Ferris (1923), Khartoum, Egypt, by Fer Region (= Vakhshckaia Valley or Vaksh ris (1951), and Khartoum, Sudan, by John River Valley). son (1960); we believe the last listed lo DISTRIBUTION: Kazakhstan. Mongolia. Taji cation to be the correct one. kistan. DISTRIBUTION: Egypt. Iran. Israel. Maurita NOTES: All hosts were originally reported as nia. Sudan. E. talpinus but the recorded geographic NOTES: Host voucher specimens should be distribution listed above encompasses the reexamined after Gerbillus is systematical range of E. tancrei, which was once in ly revised; definitions of currently recog cluded in E. talpinus but is now considered nized species are unclear (see Musser and to be a distinct species (Musser and Carle Carleton, 1993: 548, and references cited ton, 1993: 513). there). Veropepli (Ewing, 1935) [Proc. BioI. Soc. v/gracilis Fahrenholz, 1910 [J ahrb. Nieder Washington 48: 209]. sachs. Zool. Ver. Hannover 2-4: 42]. SYNONYMs: Eremophthirius eropepli Ewing, TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Micromys minu 1935. - Polyplax eriopepli (Ewing): Ferris, tus (Pallas) (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). 1951 (misspelling). TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Eropeplus canus DISTRIBUTION: Eurasia. Miller and Hollister (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). virammomydis Werneck, 1953 [Rev. Bras. TYPE LOCALITY: Celebes (= Sulawesi). Dur BioI. 13: 62]. den and Musser (1992) provided more de TYPE HOST: Grammomys dolichurus (Smuts) tailed type locality data as follows: Indo (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). nesia: Central Sulawesi, Rano Rano. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Grammomys dryas (Tho DISTRIBUTION: Indonesia: Sulawesi. mas), G. dolichurus (Rodentia: Muridae: NOTES: Ferris (1951) incorrectly stated that Murinae). 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 69 TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Cape Prov., DISTRIBUTION: India: Gujarat State. Paki Albany, Gowies Kloof. stan. DISTRIBUTION: Mozambique. South Africa. Zaire. vindica Mishra and Kulkarni, 1974 [Oriental NOTES: Kim and Emerson (1973) also re Insects 8: 89]. ported P. grammomydis from a shrew TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Golunda ellioti (Crocidura sp.) in Dahomey. Gray (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). TYPE LOCALITY: India: Maharashtra State, phannswrangeli Eichler, 1952 [Behandlung Poona District, N.D.A. Pashan Road. technik parasitarer Insekten, Akad. Verlag. DISTRIBUTION: India: Jammu and Kashmir, Geest /5(., Portig K. G., Leipzig, p. 206]. Maharashtra States. SYNONYM: Polyplax glareoli Cerny, 1959. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Clethrionomys VInsulsa Ferris, 1923 [Contributions toward a glareolus (Schreber) (Rodentia: Muridae: monograph of the sucking lice, Part IV, Arvicolinae). Stanford Univ. Pubi. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. TYPE LOCALITY: Poland: Silesia (= Slask). 2(4): 231]. DISTRIBUTION: Europe. SYNONYM: Ahaematopinus insulsus (Ferris): v"hoogstraali Johnson, 1960 [U.S. Dep. Agric. Ewing, 1929. Tech. Bull. 1211: 83]. TYPE HOST: Leopoldamys sabanus (Thomas) TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Acomys russatus (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). (Wagner) (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Leopoldamys edwardsi TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt: Sinai Governorate, St. (Thomas), L. sabanus (Rodentia: Muridae: Catherine's Monastery. Murinae). DISTRIBUTION: Egypt. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia (originally record ed as Malaysia): Natuna Islands, Bungur .vhopkinsi Paterson and Thompson, 1953 an. [Parasitology 43: 203]. DISTRIBUTION: Indonesia: Natuna Islands. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Desmodil/us au Peninsular Malaysia and offshore islands. ricularis (A. Smith) (Rodentia: Muridae: People's Republic ofChina: Guizhou Provo Gerbillinae). TYPE LOCALITY: Namibia: Luderitz-Aus vjonesi Kellogg and Ferris, 1915 [Ann. Durban Road. Mus. 1: 151]. DISTRIBUTION: Namibia. South Africa. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Saccostomus campestris Peters (Rodentia: Muridae: Cri v/humae Khan and Khan, 1985 [Pakistan J. cetomyinae). Zooi. 17: 16]. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Natal, Mfon TYPE HOST: "Cremnomys blanfordi (Tho gosi. mas);" Durden and Musser (1992) pointed DISTRIBUTION: Botswana. Mozambique. Na out that C. blanfordi does not occur in Pa mibia. South Africa. Zaire. kistan and suggested that the true type host NOTES: This louse is thought to be a specific of this louse was either Mil/ardia gleadowi parasite of S. campestris; however, Lyal (Murray) or M. meltada (Gray) (Rodentia: (1980) recorded lice that he assigned to P. Muridae: Murinae). jonesi from both Gerbil/us dasyurus (Wag TYPE LOCALITY: Pakistan: Karachi, MalirCity. ner) and G. nanus Blanford (Rodentia: DISTRIBUTION: Pakistan. Muridae: Gerbillinae) from Saudi Arabia. vhurrianicus Mishra, 1981 [Rec. Zooi. Surv. VkaiseriJohnson, 1960 [U.S. Dep. Agric. Tech. India, Misc. Pubi. Occas. Pap. 21: 91]. Bull. 1211: 93]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Meriones hur TYPE HOST: Gerbil/us gerbil/us (Olivier) (Ro rianae Jerdon (Rodentia: Muridae: Ger dentia: Muridae: Gerbillinae). billinae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Gerbil/us harwoodi Tho TYPE LOCALITY: India: Gujarat State, Banni mas, G. campestris Le Vaillant, G. chees Kutch, Wad Wali Wai. mani Thomas, G. dasyurus Wagner, G. 70 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 nanus Blanford, G. gerbillus (Rodentia: Vmeridionalis Johnson, 1962 [Proc. Entomol. Muridae: Gerbillinae). Soc. Washington 64: 51]. TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt: Southern Desert Gov- TYPE HOST: "Acomys cahirinus (Desmarest)" ernorate, beginning of Wadi El Asyuti. (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). Durden and DISTRIBUTION: Algeria. Egypt. Iran. Israel. Musser (1992) noted that this should be Libya. Mauritania. Morocco. Mozam- corrected to Acomys spinosissimus Peters, bique. Nigeria. Pakistan. Tanzania. which is the only species of Acomys that NOTES: Ledger (1980) queried the validity of occurs in the type locality in Botswana. Sub-Saharan records of this louse. Defi- PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Acomys cahirinus, A. spi- nitions of species in the host genus Ger- nosissimus. billus are unclear (Musser and Carleton, TYPE LOCALITY: Botswana: Franciston. 1993: 548); voucher specimens should be DISTRIBUTION: Botswana. Malawi. Morocco. reidentified after a systematic revision of South Africa. / Gerbillus becomes available. \/ miacantha Speiser, 1905 {Centralblatt Bak- v kondana Mishra, 1981 [Rec. Zool. Surv. In- teriol., Orig. 38: 318]. dia, Misc. Publ. Occas. Pap. 21: 96]. TYPE HOST: "A small rat with spine-like fur." TYPE HOST: Millardia kondana Mishra and TYPE LOCALITY: Abyssinia (= Ethiopia): Sal- Dhanda (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). omona. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Millardia meltada (Gray), DISTRIBUTION: Ethiopia. M. kondana (Rodentia: Muridae: Muri- NOTES: This taxon is a nomen nudum be- nae). cause the original description is inadequate TYPE WCALITY: India: Maharashtra State, and type material is unknown. Poona District, Sinhgarh. VmyotomydisJohnson, 1960 [U.S. Dep. Agric. DISTRIBUTION: India: Maharashtra State. Pa Tech. Bull. 1211: 79]. kistan. TYPE HOST: Otomys unisulcatus Cuvier (Ro longus (Werneck, 1948) [Rev. Bras. BioI. 8: dentia: Muridae: Otomyinae). 174]. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Parotomys brantsi (Smith), SYNONYM: Neohaematopinus longus Wer O. unisulcatus (Rodentia: Muridae: Oto neck, 1948. myinae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Abrocoma cinerea TYPE WCALITY: South Africa: Orange Free Thomas (Rodentia: Abrocomidae). State, Legpan. TYPE WCALITY: Peru: Caccachara, 50 mi SW DISTRIBUTION: Botswana. Namibia. South of Llave. Africa. DISTRIBUTION: Peru. ~. nesomydis Paulian, 1961 [Bull. Soc. Ento NOTES: Zoogeographically, this louse appears mol. France 66: 122]. to represent an anomaly. It is the only spe TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: "Nesomys sp." cies of Polyplax that is known to parasitize (Rodentia: Muridae: Nesomyinae); N. ru any native South American mammal. One fus Peters is the only species recognized in of us (L.A.D.) has examined the holotype this genus by Musser and Carleton (1993: and confirmed that the original description 679), but they also noted that when sys is valid. Ferris (1953) examined additional tematically revised the genus will contain material from A. cinerea collected at the two species in addition to N. rufus. type locality and reached a similar conclu TYPE LOCALITY: Madagascar: Fanovana, on sion. the eastern Tananarive coastline. DISTRIBUTION: Madagascar. l/ melasmothrixi Durden and Musser, 1992 [Am. Mus. Novitates 3052: 3]. [/Opimi Sosnina, 1979 [Trudy Vses. Entomol. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: M elasmothrix naso Obshch. 61: 19]. Miller and Hollister (Rodentia: Muridae: TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Rhombomys op Murinae). imus (Lichtenstein) (Rodentia: Muridae: TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia: Central Sulawesi, Gerbillinae). Gunung Nokilalaki. TYPE LOCALITY: Tajikistan. DISTRIBUTION: Indonesia: Sulawesi. DISTRIBUTION: Tajikistan. 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 71 Votomydis Cummings, 1912 [Bull. Entomol. I phloemydis Cuy, 1982 [Kalikasan, Philli- Res. 3: 395]. pines J. BioI. 11: 200]. "' TYPE HOST: Otomys tropicalis Thomas (Ro TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Phloemys cumingi dentia: Muridae: Otomyinae). (Waterhouse) (Rodentia: Mu'hdae: Muri PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Otomys angoniensis nae). Wroughton, O. denti Thomas, O. unisul TYPE LOCALITY: Philippines: Luzon, Laguna, catus Cuvier, O. irroratus Brants, O. tro University of the Philippines at Los Banos picalis, Parotomys brantsi (Smith) (Roden College of Forestry Campus, Mt. Makiling. tia: Muridae: Otomyinae). DISTRIBUTION: Philippines: Luzon. TYPE WCALITY: Kenya: Mt. Kenya. NOTES: We have not seen the type host spec DISTRIBUTION: Kenya. Mozambique. Rwan imen or other samples of Phloeomys from da. South Africa. Zaire. Zambia. which lice were obtained. When Cuy named phloemydis, all Phloeomys were consid v/oxyrrhyncha Cummings, 1915 [Proc. Zool. ered one species. However, two distinct Soc. London 2: 251]. species of Phloeomys occur on Luzon: one, SYNONYMS: Polyplax oxyrrhynchus Cum P. pallidus Nehring, on the main body of mings, 1915. - Polyplaxoxyrrhynchusvar. the island, the other, P. cumingi, in the hystrellae Fahrenholz, 1938. southern peninsula and on Catanduanes Is TYPE HOST: Acomys cahirinus (Desmarest) land (Musser and Carleton, 1993: 640). The (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). respective southern and northern range of PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Acomys russatus (Wagner), each is unclear. The lice come from sam A. cineraceus Fitzinger and Heuglin, A. ca ples collected in the southern portion of hirinus, A. percivali Dollman (Rodentia: the main island; either species of Phloeo Muridae: Murinae). mys could occur there. TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt: Asyut. DISTRIBUTION: Dahomey. Egypt. Israel. Ke c phthisica Ferris, 1923 [Contributions toward nya. Saudi Arabia. Sudan. Togo. Uganda. a monograph of the sucking lice, Part IV, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. l//paradoxa Johnson, 1960 [U.S. Dep. Agric. 2(4): 223]. Tech. Bull. 1211: 72]. TYPE HOST: Lophuromys jlavopunctatus Tho TYPE HOST: Meriones sp. (Rodentia: Muri mas (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). dae: Gerbillinae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Lophuromys sikapusi PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Meriones crassus Sundev (Temminck), L. rahmi Verheyen, L. woos all, M. libycus Lichtenstein, M. persicus nami Thomas, L. jlavopunctatus (Roden (Blanford), M. shawi (Duvernoy), M. tris tia: Muridae: Murinae). trami Thomas (Rodentia: Muridae: Ger TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya: Ngani Narok River billinae). (= N'gani Narok River). TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt: Western Desert Gov DISTRIBUTION: Kenya. Liberia. Malawi. ernorate, 30 mi W of Sidi Barrani. Rwanda. Tanzania. Uganda. Zaire. DISTRIBUTION: Egypt. Iran. Israel. Morocco. Saudi Arabia. Tajikistan. Tunisia. : plesiaJohnson, 1960 [U.S. Dep. Agric. Tech. NOTES: Kim and Emerson (1970) recorded Bull. 1211: 95]. P. paradoxa from the murine rodent Pe TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Mystromys albi lomys fallax (Peters) in Mozambique but caudatus (A. Smith) (Rodentia: Muridae: Ledger (1980) questioned this record. Mystromyinae). TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Lesotho, Sani Vparataterae Kim and Emerson, 1973 [Rev. River Ford. Zool. Bot. Africaines 87: 444]. DISTRIBUTION: South Africa. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Tatera kempi Wroughton (Rodentia: Muridae: Gerbilli praecisa (Neumann, 1902) [Arch. Parasitol. nae). 6: 144]. TYPE LOCALITY: Dahomey: Atacora Region, SYNONYMs: Haematopinus praecitus Neu Kouande. mann, 1901 (partim and typographical er DISTRIBUTION: Benin. Dahomey. Ghana. Ni ror). - Haematopinus praecisus Neu geria. Togo. mann, 1902. - Hematopinus (Polyplax) 72 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 praecisus Neumann: Neumann, 1909. - DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: Eremophthirius praecisa (Neumann): Fah Hebei, Xingjiang Pravs., Nei Monggol. renholz, 1938. NOTES: Musser and Carleton (1993) stated TYPE HOST: "Gros rats." that P. sungorus is restricted to eastern Ka PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Tatera nigricauda (Peters), zakhstan and southwestern Siberia. There T. robusta (Cretzschmar) (Rodentia: Mur fore the identity of the type host of this idae: Gerbillinae). louse should be reevaluated. TYPE LOCALITY: Abyssinia (= Ethiopia). DISTRIBUTION: Ethiopia. Kenya. Uganda. ~ reclinata (Nitzsch, 1864) [Z. Ges. Naturwiss. NOTES: The Ethiopian record is based upon 23: 23]. Neumann's "gros rats," which is uniden SYNONYMs: Pediculus reclinatus Nizsch, 1864. tifiable except as Tatera sp. Tatera phillipsi - Haematopinus reclinatus (Nitzsch): (De Winton), T. robusta, and T. valida (Bo Giebel, 1874. - Hoplopleura reclinata cage) are found in Ethiopia, but not T. ni (Nitzsch): Enderlein, 1904. - Haemato gricauda, which is recorded from Tanza pinus (Polyplax) spiniger reclinatus nia, Kenya, and Somalia (Musser and (Nitzsch): Neumann, 1910. - Polyplax re Carleton, 1993: 561). clinata var. leucodontis Jancke, 1932. - Polyplax reclinata reclinata (Nitzsch): ~raomydisBedford, 1929 [Ann. Rep. Dir. Vet. Jancke, 1932. - Polyplax deltoides Fah Serv., Union S. Africa 15: 503]. renholz, 1938. - Polyplax shimizui Ka TYPE HOST: Aethomys namaquensis (A. Smith) neko, 1957. (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). TYPE HOST: Sorex araneus Linnaeus (In sec PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Aethomys chrysophilus (De tivora: Soricidae). Winton), A. namaquensis (Rodentia: Mur PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Crocidura dsinezumi idae: Murinae). (Temminck), c.j/avescens (I. Geoffroy), C. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Onderstepoort. foxi Dollman, C. fumosa Thomas, C. las DISTRIBUTION: Botswana. Namibia. South iura Dobson, C. leucodon (Hermann), C. Africa. Zaire. mariquensis (A. Smith), C. russula (Her NOTES: The host A. chrysophilus as now rec mann), c. suaveolans (Pallas), Myosorex ognized is a composite oftwo species (Mus babaulti Heim de Balsac and Lamotte, M. ser and Carleton, 1993: 567). varius (Smuts), Neomys fodiens (Pennant), v pricei Kim, 1968 [Parasitology 58: 704]. Scutisorex somereni (Thomas), Sorex min TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Niviventer con utus Linnaeus, S. araneus, Suncus murinus fucianus Milne- Edwards (Rodentia: Mur (Linnaeus), Sylvisorexjohnstoni (Dobson), idae: Murinae). S. megalura (Jentink) (Insectivora: Sori TYPE LOCALITY: Thailand: Chiang Mai. cidae). DISTRIBUTION: Thailand. TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. NOTES: Kim (1968) reported the type host to DISTRIBUTION: Africa (including Madagas be Niviventer niviventer (Hodgson) but car), Eurasia. Durden and Musser (1992) pointed out that NOTES: This louse parasitizes numerous spe this murine does not occur at the type lo cies of Old W orId shrews and we expect cality in northern Thailand and have cor future studies to expand the list of known rected the host data. host species. vqiuae Chin, 1993 [Acta Zootaxon. Sinica 18: VrhizomYdis Johnson, 1972 [Pac. Insects 14: 100]. 393]. TYPE HOST: Phodopus sungorus (Pallas) (Ro TYPE HOST: Rhizomys sumatrensis (Raffles) dentia: Muridae: Cricetinae). (Rodentia: Muridae: Rhizomyinae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Phodopus roborovskii (Sa PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Rhizomys pruinosus Blyth, tunin), P. sungorus (Rodentia: Muridae: R. sinensis Gray, R. sumatrensis (Roden Cricetinae). tia: Muridae: Rhizomyinae). TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: TYPE LOCALITY: Laos: 18 km NW of Xieng Hebei Prov., Kanbao. Khouang. 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 73 DISTRIBUTION: LaOS. People's Republic of TYPE HOST: Lophuromys sp. (Rodentia: Mur China: Guizhou Provo idae: Murinae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Lophuromys flavopuncta Vroseinnesi Paterson and Thompson, 1953 tus Thomas, L. sikapusi (Temminck), L. [Parasitology 43: 201]. woosnami Thomas (Rodentia: Muridae: TYPE HOST: Gerbil/urus paeba (A. Smith) (Ro Murinae). dentia: Muridae: Gerbillinae). TYPE LOCALITY: Angola: Mt. Moco. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Gerbillurus vallinus (Tho DISTRIBUTION: Angola. Central African Re mas), G. paeba (Rodentia: Muridae: Ger public. Congo. Dahomey. Ivory Coast. Li billinae). beria. Nigeria. Rwanda. Togo. Uganda. TYPE LOCALITY: Namibia: Brandberg. Zaire. DISTRIBUTION: Botswana. Namibia. South Africa. f/ solivaga Johnson, 1962 [Proc. Entomol. Soc. NOTES: This taxon was originally described Washington 64: 160]. as rose-inessi and subsequently corrected TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Aethomys chry by Johnson (1960). sophilus (De Winton) (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). (. serrata (Burmeister, 1839) [Genera Insecto TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Transvaal, rum, Rhynchota, No.6]. Kruger National Park, Nwambia Pan. SYNONYMs: Pediculus serratus Burmeister, DISTRIBUTION: South Africa. 1839. - Haematopinus serratus (Bur NOTES: Two species exist in what is now called meister): Denny, 1842. - Polyplax ajJinis Aethomys chrysophilus (Musser and Carl (Burmeister): Fahrenholz, 1912. - Poly ton, 1993: 567). plax ajJinis Fahrenholz, 1938. - Polyplax serrata paxi Eichler, 1952. vspinigera (Burmeister, 1839) [Genera Insec TYPE HOST: Mus musculus Linnaeus (Roden torum, Rhynchota, No.9]. tia: Muridae: Murinae). SYNONYMs: Pediculus spiniger Burmeister, PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Apodemus agrarius (Pal 1839. - Haematopinus spiniger (Bur las), A. argenteus (Temminck), A. chevrieri meister): Denny, 1842. - Haematopinus (Milne-Edwards), A. flavicollis (Melchior), (Polyplax) spiniger (Burmeister): Neu A. microps Kratochvil and Rosicky, A. mann, 1909. mystacinus (Danford and Alston), A. pen TYPE HOST: Arvicola terrestris (Linnaeus) insulae (Thomas), A. speciosus (Tem (Rodentia: Muridae: Arvicolinae). minck), A. sylvaticus (Linnaeus), M. mus PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Arvicola sapidus Miller, A. culus (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). terrestris (Rodentia: Muridae: Arvicoli TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. nae). DISTRIBUTION: Eurasia on species of Apode TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. mus; almost cosmopolitan on Mus. DISTRIBUTION: Europe. Iran. Russian Fed NOTES: Although Polyplax serrata is typically eration: Siberia. found on species of Apodemus, Kristofik i spinulosa (Burmeister, 1839) [Genera Insec and Lysy (1992) also recorded it from a torum, Rhynchota, No.8]. shrew (Crocidura leucodon) and the voles SYNONYMS: Pediculus spinulosus Burmeister, Clethrionomys glareolus and Microtus ar 1839. - Haematopinus spinulosus (Bur valis. meister): Denny, 1842. - Pediculus den ticulatus Nitzsch, 1864. - Haematopinus Shafi, Samad and Rehana, 1984 (~indensis (Polyplax) spinulosus (Burmeister): Neu [Pakistan J. Zool. 16: 97]. mann, 1909. - Polyplax campylopteri Za TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Suncus murinus valeta, 1945. (Linnaeus) (Insectivora: Soricidae). TYPE HOST: Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout) TYPE LOCALITY: Pakistan: Karachi. (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). DISTRIBUTION: Pakistan. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Bandicota bengalensis smallwoodaeJohnson, 1960 [U.S. Dep. Agric. (Gray and Hardwicke), Rattus argentiv Tech. Bull. 1211: 88]. enter (Robinson and Kloss), R. exulans 74 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 (Peale), R. nitidus Hodgson, R. rattus (Lin TYPE LOCALITY: Philippines: Mindanao. naeus), R. tanezumi Temminck, R. tur DISTRIBUTION: Philippines: Mindanao. kestanicus (Satunin), R. norvegicus (Ro Vtaterae Ferris, 1923 [Contributions toward a dentia: Muridae: Murinae). monograph of the sucking lice, Part IV, TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. Stanford Univ. Pubi. Univ. Ser., BioI. Sci. DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan. 2(4): 198]. V steatomydis Pajot, 1967 [Cah. ORSTOM Ser. SYNONYMs: Eremophthirius taterae (Ferris): Entomoi. Med. 5: 111]. Fahrenholz, 1938. - Polyplax taterae TYPE HOST: Steatomys sp. (Rodentia: Muri mombassae Werneck, 1940. dae: Dendromurinae). TYPE HOST: Tatera robusta (Cretzschmar) TYPE LOCALITY: Central African Republic: (Rodentia: Muridae: Gerbillinae). Ombella-Mpoko, Boukoko. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Tatera boehmi (Noack), T. DISTRIBUTION: Central African Republic. leucogaster(Peters), T. nigricauda (Peters), NOTES: Ledger (1980) suggested that the type T. robusta (Rodentia: Muridae: Gerbilli host of this louse was S. pratensis Peters. nae). TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya: Mt. Rukenya. t/ stephensi (Christophers and Newstead, 1906) DISTRIBUTION: Kenya. Mozambique. Nige [Thompson, Yates and Johnson Lab. Rep., ria. Tanzania. new ser. 7: 3]. SYNONYMS: Haematopinus stephensi Chris v thamnomydis Pajot, 1966 [Cah. Maboke, tophers and Newstead, 1906. - Haema Paris 4: 114]. topinus (Polyplax) stephensi Christophers TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Grammomys ru and Newstead: Neumann, 1909. - Ere titans (Peters) (Rodentia: Muridae: Muri mophthirius stephensi (Christophers and nae). Newstead): Fahrenholz, 1938. TYPE LOCALITY: Central African Republic: TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Tatera indica Paris Museum of Natural History Experi (Hardwicke) (Rodentia: Muridae: Gerbil mental Station, near La Maboke and linae). M'baiki (= Lobaye). TYPE LOCALITY: India. DISTRIBUTION: Central African Republic. DISTRIBUTION: India. Iran. Pakistan. vvacillata Johnson, 1960 [U.S. Dep. Agric. V subtaterae Bedford, 1936 [Onderstepoort J. Tech. Bull. 1211: 76]. Vet. Sci. Anim. Ind. 7: 63]. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Psammomys obe SYNONYMs: Eremophthirius subtaterae (Bed sus Cretzschmar (Rodentia: Muridae: Ger ford): Fahrenholz, 1938. - Polyplax ta billinae). terae subtaterae Werneck, 1953. TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt: Western Desert Gov TYPE HOST: Tatera valida (Bocage) (Rodentia: ernorate, 26 mi W of Sidi Barrani. Muridae: Gerbillinae). DISTRIBUTION: Egypt. Morocco. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Tatera kempi Wroughton, NOTES: Zanina (1967) reported a collection T. robusta (Cretzschmar), T. valida, Ta of P. vacillata from Meriones sp., also a terillus gracilis (Thomas) (Rodentia: Mur gerbil, in Tajikistan; we have not seen this idae: Gerbillinae). collection. TYPE LOCALITY: Uganda: Kampala. l vieina Blagoveshtchensky, 1972 [Entomoi. DISTRIBUTION: Dahomey. Nigeria. Uganda. Rev. (Entomoi. Obozr., USSR) 51: 189]. Zaire. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Rattus turkestan 1/ tarsomydis Ewing, 1935 [Proc. BioI. Soc. icus (Satunin) (Rodentia: Muridae: Muri Washington 48: 206]. nae). SYNONYM: Eremophthirius tarsomydis (Ew TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: ing): Fahrenholz, 1938. Yunnan Prov., Ssumao (= Simao). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Tarsomys apoen DISTRIBUTION: People's Replfb1ic of China: sis (Mearns) (Rodentia: Muridae: Muri Yunnan Provo nae). NOTES: The type host was recorded as Rattus 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 75 losea celsus. Collections of this subspecies TYPE OF GENUS: P. calva. from Yunnan Province are currently as HOSTS: Rodentia: Muridae: Cricetomyinae. signed to Rattus turkestanicus. calva (Waterston, 1917) [Parasitology 9: 199]. Vvisenda Blagoveshtchensky, 1972 [Entomol. SYNONYMs: Polyplax calva Waterston, 1917. Rev. (Entomol. Obozr., USSR) 51: 189]. - Proenderleinellus africanus Ewing, 1923. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Leopoldamys sa - Waterstonia calva calva (Waterston): banus (Thomas) (Rodentia: Muridae: Mu Fahrenholz, 1938. - Waterstonia calva rinae). zanzibariensis Fahrenholz, 1938. - Sy TYPE LOCALITY: Vietnam: Kha-Tu. mysadus calva (Waterston): Fahrenholz, DISTRIBUTION: Vietnam. 1939. TYPE HOST: Cricetomys gambianus Water wallacei Durden, 1987 [Proc. Entomol. Soc. house (Rodentia: Muridae: Cricetomyi Washington 89: 812]. nae). TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Bunomys chry PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Cricetomys emini Wrough socomus (Hoffmann) (Rodentia: Muridae: ton, C. gambianus (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). Cricetomyinae). TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia: North Sulawesi, TYPE LOCALITY: Ghana: Accra. Bolaang Mongondow Prov., Dumoga-Bone DISTRIBUTION: Angola. Congo. Dahomey. National Park. Ghana. Kenya. Nigeria. Rwanda. South DISTRIBUTION: Indonesia: Sulawesi. - Africa. Tanzania. Togo. Zaire. Zanzibar. ;' waterstoni Bedford, 1919 [Rep. Div. Vet. NOTES: Two species of Cricetomys are cur Res., Dep. Agric., Union S. Africa 6-7: rently recognized but systematic revision 715]. may reveal more (Musser and Carleton, SYNONYM: Polyplax eminatus Fahrenholz, 1993: 540). 1938. TYPE HOST: "Several rats." SATHRAX Johnson, 1964 [Misc. Publ. En- PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Mastomys coucha (A. tomol. Soc. Am. 4: 81]. Smith), M. natalensis, Myomys albipes 1 species in genus. TYPE OF GENUS: S. durus. (Ruppell), P. jacksoni (De Winton), P. tull- "0 bergi (Thomas) (Rodentia: Muridae: Mu- , HOSTS: Scandentia: Tupaiidae. rinae).c reo . durus Johnson, 1964 [Misc. Publ. Entomol. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Onderstepoort, Soc. Am. 4: 81]. Pretoria. SYNONYM: Tupaiphthirus dolabrifer Chin, DISTRIBUTION: Central African Republic. 1975. Ethiopia. Kenya. Rwanda. South Africa. TYPE HOST: Tupaia glis (Diard) (Scandentia: Tanzania. Zaire. Zimbabwe. Tupaiidae). /"werneri (Glinkiewicz, 1907) [Sitzungsber. PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Tupaia belangeri (Wagner), Math.-Naturwiss. Classe Kaiserl. Akad. T. glis (Scandentia: Tupaiidae). Wiss. Wien 116: 381]. TYPE LOCALITY: Peninsular Malaysia: Selan SYNONYM: Eremophthirius werneri Glin gor, Ulu Langat Forest Reserve. kiewicz, 1907. DISTRIBUTION: Borneo. Peninsular Malaysia. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Pachyuromys du People's Republic of China: Yunnan Provo prasi Lataste (Rodentia: Muridae: Gerbil SCIPIO Cummings [Bull. Entomol. Res. 3: linae). 393]. TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt: Western Desert Gov 3 species in genus. ernorate, Natron Valley (= Wadi Natroun). TYPE OF GENUS: S. aulacodi. DISTRIBUTION: Egypt. Morocco. HOSTS: Rodentia: Petrortlyidae, Thryono- myidae. !o",; ..OJ." \, PROENDERLEINELLUS Ewing, 1923 [J. Washington Acad. Sci. 13: 147]. aulacodi (Neumann, 1911) [Arch. Parasitol. 1 species in genus. 14: 403]. 76 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 SYNONYMS: Haematopinus aulacodi Neu TYPE LOCALITY: People's Republic of China: mann, 1911. - Neumannellus aulacodi Guizhou Prov., Suiyang County, Kuank (Neumann): Fahrenholz, 1916. - Scipio uoshui Nature Reserve. longiceps Ewing, 1937. DISTRIBUTION: People's Republic of China: TYPE HOST: Thryonomys swinderianus (Tem Guizhou Provo minck) (Rodentia: Thryonomyidae). PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Thryonomys gregorianus (Thomas), T. swinderianus (Rodentia: ' FAMILY PTHIRIDAE Ewing, 1929 [A Thryonomyidae). manual of external parasites, p. 132]. TYPE LOCALITY: Dahomey. DISTRIBUTION: Angola. Congo. Dahomey. ~ PTHIRUS Leach, 1815 [Brewster's Edin- Kenya. Mali. Mauritania. Mozambique. burgh Encyclopaedia 9: 77]. Nigeria. Rwanda. South Africa. Zaire. 2 species in genus. Zambia. Zimbabwe. TYPE OF GENUS: P. pubis. HOSTS: Primates: Hominidae, Pongidae. breviceps Ferris, 1916 [Ann. Durban Mus. 1: 234]. , gorillae Ewing, 1927 [Proc. Entomoi. Soc. TYPE HOST: Thryonomys sp. (Rodentia: Washington 29: 120]. Thryonomyidae); Hopkins (1949) and SYNONYM: Phthirus gorillae Ewing, 1927. Ledger (1980) stated that this must be T. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Gorilla gorilla swinderianus. (Savage and Wyman) (Primates: Pongi PRINCIPAL HOSTS: Thryonomys gregorianus dae). (Thomas), T. swinderianus (Temminck) TYPE LOCALITY: Eastern Belgan Congo (= (Rodentia: Thryonomyidae). Zaire). TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa: Natal, Mfon DISTRIBUTION: Rwanda. Zaire. gosi. pubis (Linnaeus, 1758) [Systema Naturae, DISTRIBUTION: Mozambique. South Africa. Edition X, p. 611]. Zaire. SYNONYMS: Pediculus pubis Linnaeus, 1758. tripedatus Ferris, 1932 [Contributions to - Pthirus inguinalis Leach, 1815. - Ped ward a monograph ofthe sucking lice, Part iculus ferus von Olfers, 1816. - Phthirus V, Stanford Univ. Pubi. Univ. Ser., BioI. pubis (Linnaeus): Enderlein, 1904. - Sci. 2(5): 285]. Phthirus chavesi Escomel and Velando, SYNONYM: Bedfordia tripedata (Ferris), Fah 1935. renholz, 1936. TYPE AND PRINCIPAL HOST: Homo sapiens TYPE HOST: Pet rom us sp. (Rodentia: Petro Linnaeus (Primates: Hominidae). myidae). TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden. PRINCIPAL HOST: Petromus typicus A. Smith DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan. (Rodentia: Petromyidae). TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa. DISTRIBUTION: Namibia. South Africa. : FAMILY RATEMIIDAE Kim and Ludwig, '~ TYPHLOMYOPHTHIRUS Chin, 1980 [Acta Acad. Med. Guiyang 5: 91]. 1978 [Syst. Entomoi. 3: 278]. 1 species in genus. RATEMIA Fahrenholz, 1916 [Arch. Na- TYPE OF GENUS: T. bifoliatus. turges., Abt. A, 11: 31]. HOSTS: Rodentia: Muridae: Platacanthomyi 3 species in genus. nae. TYPE OF GENUS: R. squamulata. HOSTS: Perissodactyla: Equidae. bifoliatus Chin, 1980 [Acta Acad. Med. Gui yang 5: 91]. .asiatica Chin, 1981 [Acta Zootaxon. 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Haematopinus ludwigi nov. spec. from Sus verrucosus, Philippines, and neo- 82 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 INDEX TO ANOPLURA SPECIES Currently recognized species names are indicated by bold page numbers; others are treated as synonyms or nomina nuda. abeli, Hoplopleura, 18 antennata, Polyplax, 65 abnormis, Euhaematopinus, 18 antennatus, Acanthopinus, 63 abscisa, Polyplax, 65 antennatus, Haematopinus, 63 abyssinica, Polyplax, 65 antennatus, Linognathus, 38 acanthopus, Haematopinus, 19 antennatus, Neohaematopinus, 63 acanthopus, Hoplopleura, 19 antennatus semifasciatus, Neohaematopinus, 64 acanthopus acanthopus, Hoplopleura, 19 antidorcitis, Linognathus, 38 acanthopus, Pediculus, 19 aperis, Haematopinus, 15 acanthopus, Polyplax, 19 apomydis, Hoplopleura, 20 acanthopus var. aequidentis, Hoplopleura, 19 appressus, Neohaematopinus, 61 acanthopus var. ajfinis, Haematopinus, 19 apri, Haematopinus, 15 acanthopus var. americanus, Hoplopleura, 19 aquaticus, Pediculus, 50 acanthopus edentulus, Hoplopleura, 19,24 arboricola, H oplopleura, 20 acinetus, Docophthirus, 51 arcuatus, Prolinognathus, 44 acomydis, Polyplax, 65 argentina, Hoplopleura, 21 aculeatus, Eulinognathus, 52 arizonensis, Enderleinellus, 9 aculeatus, Haematopinus (Polyplax), 52 arizonensis, Hoplopleura, 21 acuticeps, Haematopinus, 15 armatus, Linognathus, 39 adventicus, Haematopinus, 17 arvicanthis, Polyplax, 65 aepycerus, Linognathus, 38 asiatica, Polyplax, 65 aethiopicus, Prolinognathus, 44 asiatica, Ratemia, 76 aethogliris, Schizophthirus, 37 asini, Haematopinus, 15 aethomydis, Hoplopleura, 19 asini, Pediculus, 15 affinis, Haematopinus, 19 asini asini, Haematopinus, 15 ajfinis, Hoplopleura, 19 asini burchellis, Haematopinus, 15 ajfinis, Pediculus, 19, 50 asini elegans, Haematopinus, 15 ajfinis, Polyplax, 19,73 asini macrocephalus, Haematopinus, 15 ajfinis ajfinis, Hoplopleura, 19 asini minor, Haematopinus, 15 ajfinis argentina, Hoplopleura, 21 asini var. colorata, Haematopinus, 15 africana, Werneckia, 14 assimilis, Pediculus, 50 africanus, Haemodipsus, 56 atelophilus, Pediculus, 51 africanus, Linognathus, 38 atelophilus, Pediculus (Parapediculus), 50 africanus, Proenderleinellus, 75 audax, Hoplopleura, 36 aitkeni, Hoplopleura, 20 audax, Pterophthirus, 36 akanezumi, Hoplopleura, 20 aulacodi, Haematopinus, 76 alactaguli, Eulinognathus, 52 aulacodi, Neumannellus, 76 alaskensis, Polyplax, 65 aulacodi, Scipio, 75 alata, Hoplopleura, 36 auricularis, Polyplax, 65 alata, Pterophthirus, 36 auricularis var. californiae, Polyplax, 66 albidior, Pediculus, 50 avahidis, Phthirpediculus, 64 albidus, Haematopinus, 47 albidus, Pedicinus, 47 badii, Pedicinus, 47 albidus, Pedicinus (Parapedicinus), 47 badii, Pedicinus (Neopedicinus), 47 albifrontis, Linognathus, 39 badiivorus, Pedicinus, 47 allactagae, Eulinognathus, 52 baibacinae, Linognathoides, 59 alticola, H oplopleura, 20 baibacinae, Neohaematopinus, 59 americanus, Eulinognathus, 52 bassoni, Ratemia, 77 ancoratus, Pedicinus, 47 batuanae, Neohaematopinus, 61 ancoratus, Pedicinus (Neopedicnus), 47 bedfordi, Linognathus, 39 andina, Hoplopleura, 20 bhatii, Linognathus, 39 angasi, Linognathus, 38 bicolor, Haematopinus, 43 angulata, Hoplopleura, 20 bidentata, Hoplopleura, 21 angulatus, Linognathus, 38 bidentatus, Haematopinus (Polyplax), 21 annulatus, Haematopinus, 7 bidentatus, Polyplax, 21 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 83 bifoliatus, Typhlomyophthirus, 76 cameli, Microthoracius, 46 bilobatus, Pedicius, 49 cameli, Pediculus, 46 binipilosus, Linognathus, 45 campylopteri, Polyplax, 73 binipilosus, Solenopotes, 45 cannomydis, Polyplax, 67 biseriata, Hoplopleura, 21 capensis, Hoplopleura, 21 biseriata, Polyplax, 66 capillatus, Solenopotes, 45 biseriatus, Eremophthirius, 66 capillatus-dubius, Solenopotes, 45 biuncatus, Eulinognathus, 52 capitaneus, Neohaematopinus, 61 blagoveshtchenskyi, Enderleinellus, 9 capitis, Pediculus, 50 blanJordi, Hoplopleura, 21 capitis angustus, Pediculus, 50 blanJordi, Polyplax, 66 capitis maculatus, Pediculus, 50 boleni, Fahrenholzia, 54 capreoli, Cervophthirius, 45 bolivianus, Eulinognathus, 52 capreoli, Solenopotes, 45 borealis, Polyplax, 66 captiosa, Hoplopleura, 21 bovis vituli, Pediculus, 44 cardiocranius, Eulinognathus, 52 brachyrrhyncha, Polyplax, 66 caviae, Eulinognathus, 56 brachyrrhyncha, Symoca, 66 caviae, Galeophthirus, 56 brachyrrhyncha var. minor, Symoca, 66 caviae-capensis, Linognathus, 44 brachyrrhynchus, Polyplax, 66 caviae-capensis, Pediculus, 44 brachyuromyis, Polyplax, 66 caviae-capensis, Prolinognathus, 44 brasiliensis, Enderleinellus, 9 cercocebi, Pedicinus, 48 brasiliensis, Hoplopleura, 21 cercocebi, Pedicinus (Neopedicinus), 48 breviceps, Haematopinus, 39 cercomydis, Ctenophthirus, 51 breviceps, Linognathus, 39 cervicalis, Pediculus, 50 breviceps, Pedicinus, 48, 49 cervicaprae, Haematopinus, 39 breviceps, Scipio, 76 cervicaprae, Linognathus, 39 brevicornis, Haematopinus, 39 ceylonicus, Neohaematopinus, 61 brevicornis, Linognathus, 39 channabasavannai, Haematopinus, 15 brevicornis, Trichaulus, 39 chapini, Pediculus, 51 breviculus, Haematopinus, 15 chapini, Pediculus (Parapediculus), 50 brevipes, Haematopinus, 15 chavesi, Phthirus, 76 brygooi, Phthirpediculus, 64 chilensis, Hoplopleura, 22 buJali, Haematopinus, 15 chinensis, Haematopinus, 17 bufali buJali, Haematopinus, 15 chinensis, Neohaematopinus, 61 buJali, Pediculus, 15 chinensis, Polyplax, 67 buJali-capensis, Pediculus, 15 chippauxi, Hoplopleura, 22 buJali-europaei, Haematopinus, 17 chlorotalpae, Johnsonpthirus, 57 buJali-europaei, Pediculus, 17 chodsidoae, Ancistroplax, 18 buJali-punctatus, Haematopinus, 17 chrotomydis, Hoplopleura, 22 bullimae, Polyplax, 66 chrysocomi, Hoplopleura, 22 bureschi, Polyplax, 66 citelli, Linognathoides, 59 burmeisteri, Cervophthirius, 45 citelli, Neohaematopinus, 59 burmeisteri, Linognathus, 45 citellinus, Neohaematopinus, 61 burmeisteri, Solenopotes, 45 clavicornis, Haematopinus, 50 clavicornis, Pediculus, 50 calabyi, Hoplopleura, 21 coassus, Linognathus, 45 callorhini, Achimella, 7 cognatus, Neohaematopinus, 62 callorhini, Antarctophthirus, 7 collaris, Pediculus, 44 callorhini, Haematopinus, 7 colobi, Pedicinus, 48 callosciuri, Neohaematopinus, 61 colobi, Pedicinus (Parapedicinus), 48 calomysci, Polyplax, 67 colomydis, Hoplopleura, 22 caluri, Polyplax, 67 columbiana, Polyplax, 59 calva, Polyplax, 75 columbianus, Haematopinus, 59 calva, Proenderleinellus, 75 conJormalis, Haemodipsus, 56 calva, Symysadus, 75 confuciana, Hoplopleura, 22 calva calva, Waterstonia, 75 consobrinus, Pediculus, 50 calva zanzibariensis, Waterstonia, 75 contigua, Hoplopleura, 22 cameli, Haematopinus, 46 contractus, Linognathus, 39 84 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 cooki, Hoplopleura, 22 elateri, Eulinognathus, 53 cornata, Hoplopleura, 23 elbeli, Neohaematopinus, 62 corporis, Pediculus, 50 elblae, Linognathus, 40 corporis angustus, Pediculus, 50 elegans, Haematopinus, 15 corporis marginatus, Pediculus, 50 elephantuli, Neolinognathus, 46 corporis nigritarum, Pediculus, 50 ellobii, Eremophthirius, 68 corrugatus, Enderleinellus, 9 ellobU, Polyplax, 68 crassicornis, Cervophthirius, 45 emarginata, Ferrisella, 36 crassicornis, Haematopinus, 45 emarginata, Hoplopleura, 36 crassicornis, Linognathus, 45 emarginata, Paradoxophthirus, 36 crassicornis, Pediculus, 45 emersoni, Atopophthirus, 8 cricetuli, Hoplopleura, 23 eminatus, Polyplax, 75 crocidurae, Ancistroplax, 18 emphereia, Hoplopleura, 24 cryptica, Ctenopleura, 23 enormis, Hoplopleura, 24 cryptica, Hoplopleura, 23 enormis enormis, Hoplopleura, 24 cummingsi, Polyplax, 67 enormis mylomydis, Hoplopleura, 30 cutchicus, Hoplopleura, 23 enormis pelomydis, Hoplopleura, 32 cutchicus, Polyplax, 67 equi, Haematopinus, 15 cynomyis, Linognathoides, 59 eremodipodis, Eulinognathus, 53 cynopitheci, Pedicinus, 48 eriopepli, Polyplax, 68 cynopitheci, Pedicinus (Parapedicinus), 48 erismata, Hoplopleura, 24 eropepli, Eremophthirius, 68 dacnomydis, Polyplax, 67 eropepli, Polyplax, 68 damaliscus, Linognathus, 39 erratica, Hoplopleura, 25 damarensis, Linognathus, 39 erratica arboricola, Hoplopleura, 20 delticola, Hoplopleura, 23 erratica erratica, Hoplopleura, 25 deltoides, Polyplax, 72 erraticus, Haematopinus, 25 dendromuris, Hoplopleura, 23 euchore, Linognathus, 40 dentaticornis, Polyplax, 67 euchoreutae, Eulinognathus, 53 denticulatus, Eulinognathus, 52 euchoreutei, Eulinognathus, 53 denticulatus, Pediculus, 73 eurygaster, Pedicinus, 48 denticulatus denticulatus, Eulinognathus, 52 eurygaster, Pediculus, 48 denticulatus surdasteri, Eulinognathus, 52 eurygaster, Phthirpedicinus, 48 deomydis, Polyplax, 67 eurygaster breviceps, Pedicinus (Pedicinus), 48 deppei, Enderleinellus, 9 eurygaster eurygaster, Pedicinus (Pedicinus), 48 desmodilli, Hoplopleura, 21 eurygaster orientalis, Pedicinus (Pedicinus), 48 diaphora, Hoplopleura, 23 eurysternus, Haematopinus, 15 difficilis, Hoplopleura, 23 eurysternus, Pediculus, 15 digitalis, Linognathus, 40 euxeri, Enderleinellus, 9 dipodis, Eulinognathus, 52 euxeri, Hoplophthirus, 9 disgrega, Ferrisella, 23 exima, Hoplopleura, 25 disgrega, Hoplopleura, 23 expressa, Polyplax, 68 disgrega chilensis, Hoplopleura, 22 extremus, Enderleinellus, 10 disgrega disgrega, Hoplopleura, 23 disparilis, Enderleinellus, 9 Jahrenholzi, Fahrenholzia, 55 dissicula, Hoplopleura, 23 Jahrenholzi, Hoplopleura, 19 dissimilis, Hoplopleura, 24 Jahrenholzi, Linognathus, 40 distorta, H oplopleura, 24 Jaini, Prolinognathus, 44 dolabrifer, Tupaiphthirus, 75 Jairchildi, Fahrenholzia, 55 dolichocephalus, Enderleinellus, 9 Jastigatus, Pedicinus, 49 dolichura, Polyplax, 68 Jaurei, Linognathoides, 59 dremomydis, Enderleinellus, 9 Jaurei, Neohaematopinus, 59 dryomydis, Schizophthirus, 37 Jenneci, Linognathus, 40 durus, Sathrax, 75 Jerrisi, Cervophthirius, 45 Jerrisi, Cyc/ophthirus, 10 echinatus, Haematopinus (Polyplax), 62 Jerrisi, Enderleinellus, 10 echinatus, Neohaematopinus, 62 Jerrisi, Fahrenholzia, 55 edentula, Hoplopleura, 24 Jerrisi, Hoplopleura, 25 ehrlichi, Fahrenholzia, 54 Jerrisi, Linognathus, 40, 45 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 85 jerrisi, Pedicinus, 48 heliosciuri, Neohaematopinus, 57 jerrisi, Pedicinus (Neopedicinus), 48 heliosciuri, Rhinophthirus, 10 jerrisi, Prolinognathus, 44 hepperi, Eulinognathus, 53 jerrisi, Solenopotes, 45 hertigi, Fahrenholzia, 55 jerrisi emphereia, Hoplopleura, 24 hesperius, Eulinognathus, 53 jerrisijerrisi, Hoplopleura, 25 hesperomydis, Haematopinus, 25 jerus, Pediculus, 76 hesperomydis, Hoplopleura, 25 jlavidus, Pediculus, 43 hesperomydis occidentalis, Hoplopleura, 25 jluctus, Echinophthirius, 8 hilli, Bathyergicola, 53 jluctus, Proechinophthirus, 8 hilli, Eulinognathus, 53 jluctus ochotensis, Proechinophthirus, 8 hilli, Proenderleinellus, 53 joleyi, Prolinognathus, 44 himalayana, Hoplopleura, 26 jonsecai, Hoplopleura, 25 himenezumi, Hoplopleura, 26 jorficulus, Haematopinus, 43 hippotragi, Linognathus, 41 jorficula, Linognathus, 40 hirci, Pediculus, 43 jractus, Linognathus, 40 hirsuta, Hoplopleura, 26 jriedenthali, Pediculus, 50 hispida, Hoplopleura, 26 junambuli, Hoplopleura, 25 hispida, Polyplax, 26 junisciuri, Werneckia, 14 hispidus, Haematopinus, 26 hispidus, Pediculus, 26 hologastrus, Linognathus, 45 galagus, Lemurphthirus, 58 hologastrus, Solenopotes, 45 galeopitheci, Hamophthirius, 17 hondurensis, Enderleinellus, 10 galeopitheci, Hamophthirus, 17 hoogstraali, Polyplax, 69 gambiani, Enderleinellus, 10 hopkinsi, Polyplax, 69 gazella, Linognathus, 39 horridus, Echinophthirius, 7 geigyi, Linognathus, 40 horridus, Pediculus, 7 gentilis, Eulinognathus, 53 horridus baikalensis, Echinophthirius, 7 gerbil/i, Eremophthirius, 68 horridus erignathi, Echinophthirius, 7 gerbilli, Polyplax, 68 humae, Polyplax, 69 gilvus, Linognathus, 39 humanus, Pediculus, 50 glareoli, Polyp/ax, 69 humanus americanus, Pediculus, 50 gliris, Schizophthirus, 37 humanus americanus, Pediculus (Pediculus), 50 gnu, Linognathus, 40 humanus angustus, Pediculus (Pediculus), 50 gorgonis, Haematopinus, 16 humanus capitis, Pediculus, 50 goril/ae, Phthirus, 76 humanus chinensis, Pediculus, 50 goril/ae, Pthirus, 76 humanus corporis, Pediculus, 50 gonolobatus, Linognathus, 40 humanus humanus, Pediculus, 50 gorgonus, Linognathus, 40 humanus marginatus, Pediculus, 50 graciliceps, Pedicinus, 49 humanus nigritarum, Pediculus (Pediculus), 50 gracilis, Polyplax, 68 humanus race shae./fi, Pediculus, 51 grammomydis, Polyplax, 68 hurrianicus, Polyplax, 69 graphiuri, Schizophthirus, 37 hybomydis, Hoplopleura, 26 griseicolus, Neohaematopinus, 62 hypogeomydis, Eulinognathus, 53 griseojlavae, Hoplopleura, 25 groenlandicus, Echinophthirius, 7 imitans, Hoplopleura, 36 25 gyomydis, Hoplopleura, imitans, Pterophthirus, 36 imparata, Hoplopleura, 26 hamadryas, Pedicinus, 48 inagakii, Hoplopleura, 26 hamadryas cercopitheci, Pedicinus incisus, Haematopinus, 16 (Parapedicinus), 48 indica, Polyplax, 69 hamadryas cynocephali, Pedicinus indiscreta, Hoplopleura, 26 (Parapedicinus), 48 inermis, Eulinognathus, 53 hamadryas hamadryas, Pedicinus inexpectans, Hoplopleura, 27 (Parapedicinus), 48 ingens, Hoplopleura, 27 handleyi, Hoplopleura, 25 inguinalis, Pthirus, 76 hannswrangeli, Polyplax, 69 inornatus, Ahaematopinus, 62 heliosciuri, Enderleinellus, 10 inornatus, Linognathoides, 62 heliosciuri, Johnsonpthirus, 57 inornatus, Neohaematopinus, 62 86 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 insularis, Enderleinellus, 10 lineata, Hoplopleura, 28 insulsa, Polyplax, 69 lobatus, Pediculus, 50 insulsus, Ahaematopinus, 69 lobatus, Pediculus (Parapediculus), 50 intermedia, Hoplopleura, 27 lobodontis, Antarctophthirus, 7 inusitata, Hoplopleura, 27 longiceps, Enderleinellus, 11 irritans, Haematopinus, 17 longiceps, Pedicinus, 48, 49 irritans, Hoplopleura, 27 longiceps, Scipio, 76 ismailiae, Hoplopleura, 27 longula, Hoplopleura, 28 isopus, Pediculus, 43 longulus, Haematopinus (Polyplax), 28 longus, Haematopinus, 16 jaculi, Eulinognathus, 53 longus, Neohaematopinus, 70 jaczewskii, Schizophthirus, 37 longus, Polyplax, 70 janckei, Haemodipsus, 57 lophiomydis, Bathyergicola, 54 javalii, Pecaroecus, 47 lophiomydis, Eulinognathus, 54 jeannereti, Haematopinus, 16 ludwigi, Haematopinus, 16 johnsonae, Hoplopleura, 27 lyriceps, Pediculus, 56 jonesi, Polyplax, 69 lyriocephalus, Haematopinus, 56 lyriocephalus, Haematopinus (Polyplax), 56 kaibabensis, Enderleinellus, 10 lyriocephalus, Haemodipsus, 56 kaiseri, Polyplax, 69 lyriocephalus, Pediculus, 56 karachiensis, Hoplopleura, 27 kelloggi, Enderleinellus, 10 macrocephalus, Haematopinus, 15 keniae, Johnsonpthirus, 57 macrocephalus, Pediculus, 15 keniae, Neohaematopinus, 57 macrorhini, Lepidophthirus, 8 kenyae, Neohaematopinus, 57 macrospinosus, Neohaematopinus, 63 khandala, Hoplopleura, 28 malabarica, Hoplopleura, 28 kimi, Linognathus, 41 malaysiana, Ferrisella, 28 kinabalensis, Neohaematopinus, 62 malaysiana, Hoplopleura, 28 kitti, Hoplopleura, 28 malaysianus, Enderleinellus, 11 kondana, Hoplopleura, 28 maniculata, Hoplopleura, 28 kondana, Polyplax, 70 maniculatus, Haematopinus (Polyplax), 28 krochinae, Enderleinellus, 10 marmotae, Enderleinellus, 11 kumadai, Enderleinellus, 10 marmotae, Linognathoides, 60 marmotae, Neohaematopinus, 60 laeviuscula, Polyplax, 59 mastacomydis, Hoplopleura, 29 laeviusculus, Enderleinellus, 59 mathesoni, Neohaematopinus, 60 laeviusculus, Haematopinus, 59 maurii, Cuyana, 51 laeviusculus, Linognathoides, 59 maurii, Eulinognathus, 51 laeviusculus, Neohaematopinus, 59 mawsoni, Antarctophthirus, 7 laeviusculus, Pediculus, 59 mazzai, Microthoracius, 46 laeviusculus bulgaricus, Neohaematopinus, 59 meinertzhageni, Haematopinus, 16 larisci, Enderleinellus, 11 melasmothrixi, Polyplax, 70 larisci, Euenderleinellus, 11 mendezi, Hoplopleura, 29 laticeps, Hoplopleura, 28 mendozana, Hoplopleura, 29 latus, Haematopinus, 16 menetensis, Enderleinellus, 11 latus latisssimus, Haematopinus, 16 menetensis, Euenderleinellus, 11 lawrensis, Bathyergicola, 53 menetensis, Neohaematopinus, 62 lawrensis, Eulinognathus, 53 meridionalis, Polyplax, 70 lawrensis, Proenderleinellus, 53 meridionidis, Hoplopleura, 29 leporis, Haemodipsus, 56 mexicanus, Enderleinellus, 11 leptocephalus, Haematopinus, 45 miacantha, Polyplax, 70 leptocephalus, Linognathus, 45 microcephala, Fahrenholzia, 55 leptocephalus, Pediculus, 44 microcephalus, Haematopinus, 42 leptocephalus, Prolinognathus, 44 microchir, Antarctophthirus, 7 leucophaeus, Haematopinus, 37 microchir, Echinophthirius, 7 lewisi, Linognathus, 41 microchir cali/omicus, Antarctophthirus, 7 liae, Mirophthirus, 60 micropilosus, Phthirpedicinus, 48 limnotragi, Linognathus, 41 microps, Phthirpedicinus, 48 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 87 microsciuri, Enderleinellus, 11 oculatus, Enderleinellus, 12 minasensis, Hoplopleura, 29 oenomydis, Hoplopleura, 30 minor, Haematopinus, 15 ogmorhini, Antarctophthirus, 7 minor, Microthoracius, 46 oliveri, Haematopinus, 16 minuta, Hoplopleura, 29 ondatraria, Hoplopleura, 31 minuta, Werneckia, 14 onychomydis, Hoplopleura, 31 minutus, Enderleinellus, 14 opimi, Polyplax, 70 miopitheci, Pedicinus, 49 orinocoi, Hoplopleura, 31 miopitheci, Pedicinus (Neopedicinus), 49 orycteropodi, Hybophthirus, 38 misionalis, Hoplopleura, 29 oryx, Haematopinus, 17 mitsuii, Hoplopleura, 28 oryx, Linognathus, 41 mjobergi, Pediculus, 50 oryzomydis, Hoplopleura, 31 monarchus, Antarctophthirus, 7 osborni, Enderleinellus, 12 montanus, Haematopinus, 59 otomydis, Polyplax, 71 montanus, Linognathoides, 59 ourebiae, Linognathus, 41 mulleri, Hoplopleura, 29 oviformis, Haematopinus, 41 multi/obata, Hoplopleura, 29 oviformis, Linognathus, 41 muntiacus, Solenopotes, 46 ovillus, Haematopinus, 41 musculi, Hoplopleura, 21 ovillus, Linognathus, 41 musseri, Hoplopleura, 30 ovillus, Linognathus (Haematopinus), 41 mylomydis, Hoplopleura, 30 ovis, Haematopinus, 42 myomyis, Hoplopleura, 30 oxymycteri, Hoplopleura, 31 myotomydis, Polyplax, 70 oxyrrhyncha, Polyplax, 71 oxyrrhynchus, Pediculus, 44 nannosciuri, Enderleinellus, 11 oxyrrhynchus, Polyplax, 71 nasuta, Ancistroplax, 18 oxyrrhynchus var. hystrellae, Polyplax, 71 nasvikae, Hoplopleura, 30 natalensis, Solenopotes, 46 pacifica, Hoplopleura, 31 nayaritensis, Enderleinellus, 11 pacificus, Neohaematopinus, 62 neotomae, Neohaematopinus, 62 pahari, Hoplopleura, 31 nepalensis, Ancistroplax, 18 painei, Polyplax, 66 nesomydis, Polyplax, 70 palaearcticus tarbagani, Neohaematopinus, 60 nesoryzomydis, Hoplopleura, 30 palaearctus, Linognathoides, 60 nesotragi, Linognathus, 41 palaearctus, Neohaematopinus, 60 neumanni, Haematopinus, 15 pallidus, Neohaematopinus, 63 neumanni, Hoplopleura, 30 palpebrae, Haematopinus, 15, 17 nevilli, Linognathus, 41 panamensis, Linognathus, 41 nigeriensis, Werneckia, 14 panamensis, Solenopotes, 42 nigrescens, Pediculus, 50 pansus, Neohaematopinus, 63 nigricantis, Haematopinus, 16 papillosus, Pediculus, 15 nigritarum, Pediculus, 50 paradoxa, Polyplax, 71 nishimarui, Enderleinellus, 12 paralleliceps, Pedicinus, 49 nitzschi, Enderleinellus, 12 paralleliceps var. colobi, Pedicinus, 48 notophallus, Haematopinus, 38 paralongiceps, Enderleinellus, 12 notophallus, Hybophthirus, 38 parataterae, Polyplax, 71 paraxeri, Enderleinellus, 14 ob/ongus, Pediculus, 50 paraxeri, Werneckia, 14 obtusus, Haematopinus, 49 parviprocursus, Haematopinus, 17 obtusus, Pedicinus, 49 parvus, Eulinognathus, 58 obtusus graciliceps, Pedicinus (Parapedicinus), parvus, Haemodipsus, 58 49 parvus, Lagidiophthirus, 58 obtusus japonicus, Pedicinus (Parapedicinus), 49 patagonicus, Eulinognathus, 54 obtusus longiceps, Pedicinus (Parapedicinus), 49 patas, Neopedicinus, 49 obtusus obtusus, Pedicinus (Parapedicinus), 49 patas, Pedicinus, 49 obtusus paralleliceps, Pedicinus (Parapedicinus), patas, Pedicinus (Neopedicinus), 49 49 patersoni, Hoplopleura, 32 ochotonae, Ferrisella, 30 patiki, Neohaematopinus, 59 ochotonae, Hoplopleura, 30 pavlovskyi, Hoplopleura, 32 88 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 pectinata, Ctenura, 32 praelongiceps, Linognathus, 46 pectinata, Hoplopleura, 32 praelongiceps, Microthoracius, 46 pectinata, Polyplax, 32 praomydis, Polyplax, 72 pectinifer, Haematopinus (Polyplax), 60 pratti, Enderleinellus, 12 pectinifer, Linognathoides, 60 pricei, Polyplax, 72 pectinifer, Lutegus, 60 propinquus, Enderleinellus, 12 pectinifer, Neohaematopinus, 60 propitheci, Phthirpediculus, 64 pedalis, Haematopinus, 42 pseudohumanus, Pediculus, 50 pedalis, Linognathus, 42 pseudohumanus, Pediculus (Parapediculus), 50 pedalis, Trichaulus, 42 pteromydis, Neohaematopinus, 63 peleus, Linognathus, 42 pubescens, Pediculus, 50 pelomydis, Hoplopleura, 32 pubis, Pediculus, 76 peristictus, Haematopinus, 16, 17 pubis, Phthirus, 76 petasmatus, Linognathus, 42 pubis, Pthirus, 76 petauristae, Neohaematopinus, 63 punctatus, Haematopinus, 17 petauristae, Petauristophthirus, 63 punctatus; Pediculus, 17 petterorum, Lemurpediculus, 58 puvensis, Enderleinellus, 12 phacochoeri, Haematopinus, 17 pygerethmi, Eulinognathus, 54 phaiomydis, Hoplopleura, 32 phloemydis, Polyplax, 71 qadrii, Neohaematopinus, 63 phocae, Echinophthirius, 7 qiuae, Polyplax, 72 phocae, Pediculus, 7 quadridentata, Hoplopleura, 32 phthiropsis, Haematopinus, 15 quadridentatus, Haematopinus (Polyplax), 32 phthiropsis, Pediculus, 15 quadridentatus, Hoplopleura, 32 phthisica, Polyplax, 71 quadripertusus, Haematopinus, 17 piageti, Pedicinus, 48 quadrumanus, Pediculus, 51 piageti, Phthirpedicinus, 48 pictus, Pedicinus, 49 rajah, Hoplopleura, 32 pictus, Pedicinus (Neopedicinus), 49 ramgarh, Hoplopleura, 32 pictus ethiopicus, Pedicinus (Neopedicinus), 49 raphiceri, Linognathus, 42 pictus !astigatus, Pedicinus (Neopedicinus), 49 rauschi, Latagophthirus, 8 pictus gambiensis, Pedicinus (Neopedicinus), 49 reclinata, Hoplopleura, 72 pictus pictus, Pedicinus (Neopedicinus), 49 reclinata, Polyplax, 72 pictus polykomi, Pedicinus (Neopedicinus), 49 reclinata reclinata, Polyplax, 72 piliferus, Haematopinus, 43 reclinata var. leucodontis, Polyplax, 72 piliferus, Haematopinus (Linognathus), 43 reclinatus, Haematopinus, 72 piliferus, Linognathus, 43 reclinatus, Pediculus, 72 piliferus, Pediculus, 43 reducta, Fahrenholzia, 55 piliferus, Trichaulus, 43 reducta, Hoplopleura, 32 pinnata, Fahrenholzia, 55 reduncae, Linognathus, 42 piriformis, Lepidophthirus, 8 reithrodontomyis, Hoplopleura, 33 pithodes, Linognathus, 42 relectus, Neohaematopinus, 60 pithodes, Stobella, 42 relictus, Linognathoides, 60 platyspicatus, Enderleinellus, 12 relictus, Neohaematopinus, 60 platyspicatus, Euenderleinellus, 12 replicatus, Enderleinellus, 13 plesia, Polyplax, 71 rhesi, Pedicinus, 49 pleurophaea, Polyplax, 37 rhizomydis, Polyplax, 72 pleurophaeus, Hasellus, 37 rimae, Hoplopleura, 33 pleurophaeus, Pediculus, 37 robust us, Neohaematopinus, 63 pleurophaeus, Schizophthirus, 37 rose-inessi, Polyplax, 73 polykomi, Pedicinus, 49 roseinnesi, Polyplax, 73 praecisa, Eremophthirius, 72 rukenyae, Hoplopleura, 33 praecisa, Polyplax, 71 rupestis, Neohaematopinus, 63 praecisus, Haematopinus, 30, 71 rupicaprae, Haematopinus, 43 praecisus, Haematopinus (Polyplax), 71 rupicaprae, Linognathus, 43 praecitus, Haematopinus, 30, 71 praelautus, Neolinognathus, 47 saccatus, Haematopinus, 42 praelongiceps, Haematopinus (Linognathus), 46 saccatus, Linognathus, 42 1994 DURDEN AND MUSSER: SUCKING LICE AND HOSTS 89 sahyadri, Hoplopleura, 33 sphaerocephalus, Enderleinellus, 12, 13 scapteromydis, Hoplopleura, 33 sphaerocephalus, Haematopinus, 12 schaefJi, Pediculus, 51 sphaerocephalus, Pediculus, 12 schistopyga, Pediculus, 43 spicatus, Linognathus, 43 schistopygus, Linognathus, 43 spicula, Hoplopleura, 34 schizodactylus, Linognathoides, 60 spiculijer, Haematopinus, 35 schizodactylus, Neohaematopinus, 60 spiculijer, Hoplopleura, 35 schulzi, Prolinognathus, 45 spiculijer, Pediculus, 35 schwartzi, Fahrenholzia, 55 spilosomae, Neohaematopinus, 64 scirtopodae, Eulinognathus, 54 spiniger, Haematopinus, 73 sciuri, Neohaematopinus, 63 spiniger, Haematopinus (Polyplax), 73 sciuricola, Hoplopleura, 33 spiniger, Pediculus, 73 sciurinus, Acanthopinus, 63 spiniger reclinatus, Haematopinus (Polyplax), 72 sciurinus, Neohaematopinus, 63 spinigera, Polyplax, 73 sciurinus griseicolus, Neohaematopinus, 62 spinosissimus, Alenapthirus, 57 sciurinus sciurinus, Neohaematopinus, 63 spinosissimus, Johnsonpthirus, 57 sciuropteri, Haematopinus, 64 spinulosa, Polyp/ax, 73 sciuropteri, Neohaematopinus, 64 spinulosus, Haematopinus, 73 sciurotamiasis, Enderleinellus, 13 spinulosus, Haematopinus (Polyplax), 73 scotinomydis, Hoplopleura, 33 spinulosus, Pediculus, 73 sembeli, Hoplopleura, 34 splendida, Hoplopleura, 36 semijasciatus, Neohaematopinus, 64 splendida, Pterophthirus, 36 sericans, Echinophthirius, 7 squamosus, Haematopinoides, 18 sericeus, Echinophthirius, 7 squamulata, Ratemia, 77 serrata, Polyplax, 73 squamulatus, Haematopinus (Linognathus), 77 serrata paxi, Polyplax, 73 squamulatus, Ratemia, 77 serratus, Haematopinus, 73 steatomydis, Polyplax, 74 serratus, Pediculus, 73 stenopsis, Haematopinus, 43 setoni, Haemodipsus, 57 stenopsis, Linognathus, 43 setosus, Atopophthirus, 8 stenopsis, Pediculus, 43 setosus, Echinophthirius, 7 stenopsis, Trichaulus, 43 setosus, Haematopinus, 7, 60 stephensi, Eremophthirius, 74 setosus, Haematopinus (Echinophthirius), 7 stephensi, Haematopinus, 74 setosus, Linognathoides, 60 stephensi, Haematopinus (Polyplax), 74 setosus, Linognathus, 42 stephensi, Polyplax, 74 setosus, Neohaematopinus, 64 stigmosus, Lemurphthirus, 58 setosus, Pediculus, 7, 42 suahelicus, Johnsonpthirus, 58 setosus bhatii, Linognathus, 39 suahelicus, Neohaematopinus, 58 setzeri, Hoplopleura, 34 subtaterae, Eremophthirius, 74 shimizui, Polyplax, 72 subtaterae, Polyplax, 74 sicata, Hoplopleura, 34 suis, Haematopinus, 17 sicistae, Schizophthirus, 37 suis, Pediculus, 17 silesica, H oplopleura, 19 suis adventicus, Haematopinus, 17 silvula, Hoplopleura, 34 suis chinensis, Haematopinus, 17 simiae, Pediculus (Paenipediculus), 51 suis germanicus, Haematopinus, 17 similis, Hoplopleura, 34 suis germanus, Haematopinus, 17 similis, Schizophthirus, 37 suis sardinensis, Haematopinus, 17 sindensis, Polyplax, 73 suis suis, Haematopinus, 17 sinensis, Solenopotes, 46 sukenyae, Hoplopleura, 33 singuiaris, Shizophthirus, 37 sumatranus, Phthirunculus, 14 sinhgarh, Hoplopleura, 34 sundasciuri, Neohaematopinus, 64 smallwoodae, Polyplax, 73 suturalis, Cyclophthirus, 13 solivaga, Polyplax, 73 suturalis, Enderleinellus, 13 somereni, Hoplopleura, 34 suturalis, Haematopinus, 13 sosninae, Linognathus, 43 suturalis occidentalis, Enderleinellus, 13 spermophili, Linognathoides, 59 syriacus, Neohaematopinus, 64 spaerocephalus, Enderleinellus, 12 sphaerocephala, Polyplax, 12 tabescentium, Pediculus, 50 90 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 218 taeniotrichus, Linognathus, 43 uncinatus, Enderleinellus, 14 taiwanensis, Ancistroplax, 18 uncinatus, Microphthirus, 14 tamiasciuri, Enderleinellus, 13 ungulata, Linognathus, 38 tamiasis, Enderleinellus, 13 ungulatus, Haematopinus, 38 tarandi, Cervophthirius, 46 ungulatus, Linognathus, 38 tarandi, Solenopotes, 46 urius, Haematopinus, 15 tarsomydis, Eremophthirius, 74 urius, Pediculus, 17 tarsomydis, Polyplax, 74 uromydis, Hoplopleura, 35 taterae, Eremophthirius, 74 urosciuri, Enderleinellus, 13 taterae, Polyplax, 74 taterae mombassae, Polyplax, 74 vacillata, Polyplax, 74 taterae subtaterae, Polyplax, 74 vandeleuria, Hoplopleura, 34 taurotragi, Haematopinus, 17 varia, Hoplopleura, 35 taurotragus, Linognathus, 43 venezuelae, Enderleinellus, 13 tenuirostris, Haematopinus, 44 ventricosa, Polyplax, 57 tenuirostris, Pediculus, 44 ventricosus, Haematopinus, 57 texana, Fahrenholzia, 56 ventricosus, Haematopinus (Polyplax), 57 thamnomydis, Polyplax, 74 ventricosus, Haemodipsus, 57 thurmanae, Hoplopleura, 35 veprecula, Hoplopleura, 35 tibialis, Haematopinus, 44 veri, Pedicinus, 50 tibialis, Linognathus, 43 veri, Pedicinus (Neopedicinus), 50 tibialis, Trichaulus, 44 verruculosus, Lemurpediculus, 58 tibialis var. antennatus, Haematopinus, 38 verruculosus, Lemurphthirus, 58 tibialis var. appendiculatus, Haematopinus, 44 vestimenti, Pediculus, 50 tibialis var. cervicaprae, Haematopinus, 39 vicina, Polyplax, 74 tibialis var. cervicaprae, Linognathus, 39 vietnamensis, Hoplopleura, 36 tibialis var. euchore, Linognathus, 40 villosa, Polyplax, 19 tiptoni, Hoplopleura, 35 vincenti, Lemurphthirus, 59 tokmaki, Eulinognathus, 54 visenda, Polyplax, 75 torquatus, Eulinognathus, 54 vituli, Haematopinus, 44 torresi, Hoplopleura, 35 vituli, Linognathella, 44 tragelaphi, Linognathus, 42 vituli, Linognathus, 44 traubi, Hoplopleura, 35 vituli, Pediculus, 44 traubi, Neohaematopinus, 60 vituli, Trichaulus, 44 traubi, Linognathoides, 60 vulgaris, Pedicinus, 47, 49 travassosi, Hoplopleura, 35 vulpis, Linognathus, 44 tribulosa, Fahrenholzia, 56 tribulosa reducta, Fahrenholzia, 55 tribulosa tribulosa, Fahrenholzia, 56 wallacei, Polyplax, 75 tribulosa zacatecae, Fahrenholzia, 56 waterstoni, Polyplax, 75 trichechi, Antarctophthirus, 7 wernecki, Eulinognathus, 54 trichechi, Arctophthirus, 7 wernecki, Hoplopleura, 37 trichechi, Haematopinus, 7 wernecki, Pterophthirus, 37 tripedata, Bedfordia, 76 werneri, Eremophthirius, 75 tripedatus, Scipio, 76 werneri, Polyplax, 75 trispinosa, Euhoplopleura, 35 trispinosa, Hoplopleura, 35 zacatecae, Fahrenholzia, 56 tuberculatus, Haematopinus, 17 zelotomydis, Hoplopleura, 36 tuberculatus, Pediculus, 17 zonatus, Enderleinellus, 13 tuberculatus var. penicillatus, Haematopinus, 17 zonatus, Euenderleinellus, 13 turkestanica major, Polyplax, 65 zumpti, Linognathus, 44 turkestanica turkestanica, Polyplax, 65 zumpti, Proechinophthirus, 8