Hoplopleura hirsuta
Appearance
Hoplopleura hirsuta | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Psocodea |
Family: | Hoplopleuridae |
Genus: | Hoplopleura |
Species: | H. hirsuta
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Binomial name | |
Hoplopleura hirsuta Ferris, 1916
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Hoplopleura hirsuta is a sucking louse that is known from North, Central, and South America. Its main hosts are cotton rats such as Sigmodon hispidus, Sigmodon ochrognathus, Sigmodon peruanus, and Sigmodon arizonae.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Durden and Musser, 1994, p. 27
Literature cited
[edit]- 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.