genus

Polyplax Enderlein, 1904

Type

Polyplax Enderlein, 1904: 142.
Polyplax Enderlein, 1904 in Wang, Haylee, Song, Durden & Shao, 2018 Distribution/Dispersal/Specimen Records

Polyplax Enderlein, 1904 in Matthee, Du Toit-Heunis, Matthee, Durden & Light, 2025: 1-12. Phylogeny; Systematics

Enderlein, G. (1904) Lause-Studien. Uber die Morphologie, Klassifikation und systematische Stellung der Anopluren, nebst Bemerkungen zur Systematik der Insekten-ordnungen. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 28, 121–147.
Matthee, C.A., Du Toit-Heunis, N., Matthee, S., Durden, L.A. & Light, J.E. (2025) Host associations, host switching, geographic location, and potential reticulate evolution shape the systematics of sucking lice (Psocodea: Anoplura) belonging to the genera Hoplopleura and Polyplax. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 204(4 (zlaf095), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf095

Wang, W., Haylee, J., Song, F., Durden, L.A. & Shao, R. (2018) A new species of sucking louse Hoplopleura villosissima n. sp. (Psocodea: Phthiraptera: Hoplopleuridae) and a new host record of the spiny rat louse Polyplax spinulosa Burmeister, 1839 (Psocodea: Phthiraptera: Polyplacidae) from the long-haired rat Rattus villosissimus Waite (Rodentia: Muridae) in Australia. 11, 476. Available at http://https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-018-3037-8