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Hoplopleura oryzomydis

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Hoplopleuridae

Scientific name
  
Hoplopleura oryzomydis

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Anoplura

Genus
  
Hoplopleura

Rank
  
Species

Hoplopleura oryzomydis is a sucking louse that is known from the southern United States, Nicaragua, Panama, and Venezuela. It is known from several oryzomyine rodents: the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris), O. couesi, Handleyomys alfaroi, Transandinomys talamancae, Melanomys caliginosus, and Sigmodontomys alfari.

Literature cited

  • Durden, L.A. and Musser, G.G. 1994. The sucking lice (Insecta, Anoplura) of the world: a taxonomic checklist with records of mammalian hosts and geographical distributions. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 218:1–90.

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