Sucking lice (Insecta, Anoplura) from indigenous Sulawesi rodents : a new species of Polyplax from a montane shrew rat, and new information about Polyplax wallacei and P. eropepli

Title Variants

Alternative: Sucking lice--Sulawesi rodents

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 3052

By

Durden, Lance A.

Musser, Guy G.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, N.Y, American Museum of Natural History, c1992

Notes

Caption title.

"December 14, 1992."

"Polyplax melasmothrixi, a new species of polyplacid sucking louse, is described from Melasmothrix naso, a small-bodied shrew rat known only from tropical upper montane rain forest in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. The male of Polyplax wallacei is described from specimens collected from Bunomys chrysocomus trapped in tropical lowland evergreen rain forest in Central Sulawesi. A further specimen of Polyplax eropepli, a taxon previously known only from the type series, is documented from Eropeplus canus from tropical upper montane rain forest also in Central Sulawesi. Host and habitat associations for these three species of sucking lice are discussed. Polyplax melasmothrixi and P. eropepli are both known only from montane habitats in Central Sulawesi and both appear to be host specific (to M. naso and E. canus, respectively). Contrastingly, P. wallacei parasitizes two species of Bunomys in lowland forests and is known from North and Central Sulawesi"--P. [1].

Subjects

Anoplura , Classification , Indonesia , Insects , Melasmothrix naso , Parasites , Parasitic insects , Polyplax melasmothrixi , Rodents , Sulawesi

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.3052, 1992

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 34253729