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Neohaematopinus sciuropteri Osborn
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Neohaematopinus sciuropteri (Osborn)
Pickens Co., Clemson, 14 December 1940, ex Glaucomys volans, coll. R.E. Hare.
This louse is an ectoparasite of flying squirrels, Glaucomys spp. (Durden & Musser 1994). Kim et al. (1986) reported collections of this louse from Clemson, South Carolina. Neohaematopinus sciuropteri is an enzootic vector of R. prowazekii to G. volans (Durden 2002).
Notes
Published as part of Reeves, Will K., Durden, Lance A. & Wrenn, William J., 2004, Ectoparasitic chiggers (Acari: Trombiculidae, Leeuwenhoekiidae), lice (Phthiraptera), and Hemiptera (Cimicidae and Reduviidae) from South Carolina, U. S. A., pp. 1-20 in Zootaxa 647 on page 12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.158298
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Osborn
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Phthiraptera
- Family
- Polyplacidae
- Genus
- Neohaematopinus
- Species
- sciuropteri
- Taxon rank
- species