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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.Durden, 1988, p. 900 References Literature cited *Durden, L.A. 1988The 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. 1994The 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. {{Taxonb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sucking Louse
Sucking lice (Anoplura, formerly known as Siphunculata) have around 500 species and represent the smaller of the two traditional superfamilies of lice. As opposed to the paraphyletic chewing lice, which are now divided among three suborders, the sucking lice are monophyletic. The Anoplura are all blood-feeding ectoparasites of mammals. They only occur on about 20% of all placentalian mammal species, and are unknown from several orders of mammals ( Monotremata, Edentata, Pholidota, Chiroptera, Cetacea, Sirenia, and Proboscidea).Piotrowski, F. (1992): Anoplura (echte Läuse). de Gruiter; 61 pp. (page 8) They can cause localized skin irritations and are vectors of several blood-borne diseases. Children appear particularly susceptible to attracting lice, possibly due to their fine hair. At least three species or subspecies of Anoplura are parasites of humans; the human condition of being infested with sucking lice is called pediculosis. ''Pediculus humanus'' is divided into two su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |