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Polyplax spinulosa (Burmeister, 1839)

Nomenclature (19)

  • Pediculus spinulosus Burmeister, 1839: No. 8.
  • Haematopinus spinulosus (Burmeister, 1839) in Denny, 1842: 26.
  • Polyplax spinulosa (Burmeister, 1839) in Wang, Durden & Shao, 2020 Behavior; Life History
  • Polyplax spinulosa (Burmeister, 1839) in Durden, Robinson, Cook, Bell, Nyamsuren & Greiman, 2022: 361.

Nomenclature references (18)

  • Burmeister, H.C.C. (1839) Genera Quaedam Insectorum. Iconibus Illustravit et Descripsit. Vol. I. Continet Tabulas XL. A. Burmeister, Berlin, 166 pp. [Often cited as 1839, but dates of publication state 1838-1846. Unpaginated.]
  • Denny, H. (1842) Monographia anoplurorum Britanniae. Henry G. Bohn, London, xxvi+262 p.
  • Nitzsch, C.L. (1864) Zeitschrift für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften, 23, 23–24.
  • Giebel, C.G.A. (1874) Insecta epizoa. Otto Wigand, Leipzig, xiv+308 p.
  • 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.
  • Neumann, L.G. (1909) Notes sur les Pediculides. 13, 497–537.
  • Neumann, L.G. (1909) Note sur les Pediculides. Archives de Parasitologie Paris, 13, 497–537.
  • Bouvier, G. (1944) Note sur quelques oeufs d'ectoparasites se rencontrant sur les animaux domestiques (Anoplura et Mallophaga). Schweizer Archiv fur Tierheilkunde, 86, 378–385.
  • Zavaleta, D. (1946)
  • Clay, T. (1964) Insects of Campbell Island. Phthiraptera. Pacific Insects Monographs, 7, 230–234.
  • Van Den Broek, E. (1977) De luizen (Anoplura and Mallophaga) van zoogdieren in Nederland. 121, 1–32.
  • Kim, K.C., Pratt, H.D. & Stojanovich, C.J. (1986) In The sucking lice of North America--An illustrated manual for identification. The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park and London. xii + 241 pp.
  • Durden, L.A. & 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. Available at http://https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/825
  • Kristofik, J. & Dudich, A. (2000) Sucking lice of the Polyplax genus (Phthiraptera) on small mammals (Insectivora, Rodentia) in Slovakia. Biológia (Bratislava), 55(2), 133–142.
  • Palma, R.L. (2017) Phthiraptera (Insecta) A catalogue of parasitic lice from New Zealand. Fauna of New Zealand, 76, 1–400. Available at http://https://www.biotaxa.org/fnz/article/view/33546
  • 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
  • Wang, W., Durden, L.A. & Shao, R. (2020) Rapid host expansion of an introduced parasite, the spiny rat louse Polyplax spinulosa (Psocodea: Phthiraptera: Polyplacidae), among endemic rodents in Australia. 13(1), 83. Available at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13071-020-3957-y
  • Durden, L.A., Robinson, C., Cook, J.A., Bell, K.C., Nyamsuren, B. & Greiman, S.E. (2022) Sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura) parasitizing Mongolian rodents with the description of a new species of Hoplopleura from mountain voles (Alticola spp.). Journal of Parasitology, 108(4), 353–365.

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