PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



issued f^^ilN-^ Sti^l l>y the 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



U3. NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Vol.110 Washington: 1959 No. 342! 



THE RODENT-INFESTING ANOPLURA (SUCKING LICE) OF 

 THAILAND, WITH REMARKS ON SOME RELATED SPECIES 



By Phyllis T. Johnson ^ 



During 1952-55, Robert E. Elbel, Malaria Control Adviser in the 

 North Eastern Provinces, conducted wild-mammal- and bii'd-ecto- 

 parasite surveys for the U.S. Operations Missions to Thailand, 

 International Cooperation Administration. This first such compre- 

 hensive survey in Thailand has proved to be a major contribution to 

 mammalogy, ornithology, and entomology. Mr. Elbel's collections 

 are the result of one of the fiirst wholehearted attempts to sample 

 populations of a large and representative percentage of the rodent and 

 rodent-ectoparasite species native to Southern Asia, and have therefore 

 provided medical entomology with valuable and unique information 

 on this area of the world. 



The present paper is an account of the Anoplura collected by Mr. 

 Elbel and his associates, and of a collection made by D. C. and 

 E. B. Thurman in northeastern Thailand. Of the 18 species repre- 

 sented, 8 are new.^ To date only 4 species of 'Anoplura have been 

 recorded from Thailand. Of these 4, only 1 was not included in 

 Mr, Elbel's collections (Hoplopleura pectinata Cummings from Rattus 

 surifer, Trong, Lower Thailand). 



• Entomology Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. 

 2 One of the new species collected during the survey will be described in another paper, and is not men- 

 tioned here. 



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