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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