Haematopinus asini ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Kazim, Abdul-Rahman, Houssaini, Jamal, Tappe, Dennis & Heo, Chong-Chin, 2022, An annotated checklist of sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura) from domestic and wild mammals in Malaysia, with lists of hosts and pathogens, Zootaxa 5214 (3), pp. 301-336 : 322

Haematopinus asini ( Linnaeus, 1758)

This louse species infests horses ( Equus caballus ), plain zebras ( Equus burchellii ) and donkeys ( Equus asinus ) ( Webb 1948; Durden & Musser 1994; Attia 2018; Attia et al. 2018; Gharbi et al. 2020; Sazmand et al. 2020). Due to the global geographical distribution of these equine hosts, especially horses, H. asini was considered as a cosmopolitan species ( Durden & Musser 1994). None of these mammals are native to Malaysia, but they have been introduced in this country as farm or recreational animals ( Bashir 1993; Abdullah and Mammalian Research Group 2013). However, there have been no records of H. asini from these hosts in Malaysia.