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Hoplopleura erismata Ferris 



Figures 20-21, 24, 26 



Hoplopleura erismata Ferris, Contributions toward a monograph of the sucking 

 lice, pt. 2, p. 113, figs. 72B, 72E, 72F, 1921; The sucking lice, p. 136, 1951. 



Ferris described erismata from Thailand from Callosciurus 

 ■ferrugineus, C. caniceps, and Tamiops sp. Holotype female from 

 C. ferrugineus, Southeast Siam. It is very likely that the specimens 

 taken from Tamiops were actually H. thurmanae. 



New records: Two males, two females from Callosciurus finlaysoni 

 tacherdi, nakhon ratchasima (=khorat): Sikhui, Pakchong, June 



Figures 19-26. — Hoplopleura thurmanae, new species, and H. erismata: 19, Head, H, 

 thurmanae, holotype 9 ; 20 Same, H. erismata, 9 ; 21, Paratergal plates II-VI, H. erismata. 

 9 ; 22, Same, H. thurmanae, holotype 9 ; 23, Genitalia, H. thurmanae, allotype cf ; 24, 

 Same, H. erismata, c?; 25, Thoracic sternal plate, //. thurmanae, holotype 9 ; 26, Same, 

 H. erismata, 9 • 



