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Polyplax Enderlein, 1904

Type

Nomenclature (8)

  • Polyplax Enderlein, 1904: 142.
  • Eremophthirius Glinkiewicz, 1907: 381.

    type species by original monotypy Eremophthirus werneri Glinkiewicz, 1907

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  • 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

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Enderlein, G. (1904) Lause-Studien. Uber der Morphologie, Klassifikation und systematische Stellung der Anopluren nebst Bemerkungen zur Systematik der Insektenordnungen. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 28(4), 121–147.
  • Ewing, H.E. (1935) The taxonomy of the Anopluran genera Polyplax and Eremophthirius, including the description of new species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 48, 201–210.
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  • Fahrenholz, H. (1938) Die Anoplurengattung Polyplax. Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde, 10, 239–279. Available at http://phthiraptera.info/sites/phthiraptera.info/files/42148.pdf
  • Ferris, G.F. & Stojanovich, C.J. (1951) The sucking lice. Memoirs of the Pacific Coast Entomological Society, 1, 1–320.
  • Glinkiewicz, A. (1907) Ergebnisse der mit Subvention aus der Erbschaft Tieill unternommenen zoologischen Forschungsreise Dr. Franz Werner's nach dem agyptischen Sudan und Nord-Uganda. X. Parasiten von Pachuromys duprasi Lat. 116(Abth. i), 381–386.
  • Johnson, P.T. (1960) The Anoplura of African rodents and insectivores. ARS-USDA Technical Bulletin, 1211, 1–116.
  • 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

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon Valid names
Rank Extant Fossil Invalid Total
genus1023
species82052134