Hoplopleura pectinata ( Cummings, 1913 )

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 : 312-313

Hoplopleura pectinata ( Cummings, 1913)

Polyplax pectinata Cummings, 1913: 35 .

Polyplax pectinata Cummings, 1913 : Ferris 1916: 174.

Hoplopleura pectinata ( Cummings, 1913) ; Ferris 1916: 205.

Hoplopleura pectinata ( Cummings, 1913) ; Ferris 1921: 99, figs 61–62.

Ctenura pectinata ( Cummings, 1913) ; Ewing 1929: 199.

Hoplopleura pectinata ( Cummings, 1913) ; Ferris 1932a: 282.

Hoplopleura pectinata ( Cummings, 1913) ; Ferris 1951: 142.

Hoplopleura pectinata ( Cummings, 1913) ; Johnson 1964: 74.

Hoplopleura pectinata ( Cummings, 1913) ; Johnson 1972b: 226, figs 8, 24, 28.

Hoplopleura pectinata ( Cummings, 1913) ; Durden & Musser 1994: 32.

Type host: “ Epymis surifer Miller, 1900 ” = Maxomys surifer (Miller, 1900) —Red spiny rat.

Malaysian hosts: Maxomys alticola (Thomas, 1888) ; Maxomys rajah (Thomas, 1894) , Maxomys whiteheadi (Thomas, 1894) , Niviventer cremoriventer (Miller, 1900) , Niviventer niviventer (Hodgson, 1836) , Niviventer rapit (Bonhote, 1903) .

Malaysian localities: States of Kedah, Pahang, Perak, Selangor & Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia ( Johnson 1964); Gunung Kinabalu & Ranau (Sabah) Malaysian Borneo ( Johnson 1964); Kuala Selangor Nature Park (Selangor) Peninsular Malaysia ( Chuluun et al. 2005).

Geographical distribution: Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand ( Durden & Musser 1994; Price & Graham 1997).

Remarks: The adult male and female of Hoplopleura pectinata were redescribed and illustrated by Ferris (1921). Johnson (1972b) described and illustrated the second and third nymphal instars. The type locality of Hoplopleura pectinata was given as “Malay Peninsula: Biserat, Jalor” by Cummings (1913) and Ferris (1921). Durden & Musser (1994) also stated Biserat, Jalor as being in “Peninsular Malaysia ”, but this is incorrect because Jalor is in Thailand. Johnson (1964) commented that most hosts of H. pectinata were likely natural, but there were also some “scattered specimens from other Rattus species ” due to contaminations. Notwithstanding the several species of Niviventer listed as hosts of many specimens of H. pectinata by Johnson (1964), Durden & Musser (1994) only listed four species of Maxomys as “Principal hosts”, but none of Niviventer .