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Polyplax spinulosa

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Polyplacidae

Scientific name
  
Polyplax spinulosa

Rank
  
Species

Class
  
Insecta

Genus
  
Polyplax

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Sucking louse

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Similar
  
Sucking louse, Polyplacidae, Ornithonyssus bacoti, Hoplopleuridae, Ornithonyssus

Polyplax spinulosa


Polyplax spinulosa is a sucking louse (Anoplura) from the genus Polyplax. It occurs worldwide and commonly infects its type host, the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), and related species like the black rat (Rattus rattus), Rattus pyctoris, Rattus nitidus, Rattus argentiventer, Rattus tanezumi, Rattus exulans, and Bandicota indica. It is also occasionally found in other rodents, such as the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) in North America.

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Literature cited

  • Durden, L.A. 1988. The spiny rat louse, Polyplax spinulosa, as a parasite of the rice rat, Oryzomys palustris, in North America (subscription required). The Journal of Parasitology 74(5):900–901.
  • 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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