Hoplopleura sicata Johnson 1964
- 1. Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh Campus, Jalan Hospital, 47000 Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6269 - 8390
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Description
Hoplopleura sicata Johnson, 1964
Hoplopleura sicata Johnson, 1964: 73, figs 13, 16, 22–24.
Hoplopleura sicata Johnson, 1964; Johnson 1972b: 221, figs 3, 5, 11–12, 21, 25.
Hoplopleura sicata Johnson, 1964; Mishra 1981: 59, figs 125–132.
Hoplopleura sicata Johnson, 1964; Durden & Musser 1994: 34.
Type host: “ Rattus cremoriventer ” = Niviventer cremoriventer (Miller, 1900) —Dark-tailed tree rat.
Malaysian host: Niviventer cremoriventer.
Malaysian localities: Tenompak, Gunung Kinabalu, Ulu Kaingaran, Pampang & Ranau (Sabah) Malaysian Borneo (Johnson 1964).
Geographical distribution: India (Jammu & Kashmir, Sikkim, West Bengal States), Laos, Malaysian Borneo, Nepal (Mishra 1981; Durden & Musser 1994; Price & Graham 1997).
Remarks: The adult male and female of Hoplopleura sicata were described and illustrated by Johnson (1964). Johnson (1972) described and illustrated all three nymphal instars. To date, the original description is the only record of Hoplopleura sicata in Malaysia. Apart from Malaysian Borneo, H. sicata has been found on a number of other species of Niviventer and Rattus from India, Laos and Nepal (Johnson 1972b; Mishra 1981; Durden & Musser 1994).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Hoplopleuridae
- Genus
- Hoplopleura
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Psocodea
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Johnson
- Species
- sicata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hoplopleura sicata Johnson, 1964 sec. Kazim, Houssaini, Tappe & Heo, 2022
References
- Johnson, P. T. (1964) The hoplopleurid lice of the Indo-Malayan Subregion (Anoplura: Hoplopleuridae). Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America, 4 (3), 68 - 102.
- Johnson, P. T. (1972 b) Some Anoplura of the Oriental Region. A study of Hoplopleura pacifica Ewing and allies. Journal of Medical Entomology, 9 (3), 219 - 227. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jmedent / 9.3.219
- Mishra, A. C. (1981) The hoplopleurid lice of the Indian Subcontinent (Anoplura: Hoplopleuridae). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, 21, 1 - 128.
- 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.
- Price, M. A. & Graham, O. H. (1997) Chewing and sucking lice as parasites of mammals and birds. United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., 320 pp.