Felicola rohani Werneck, 1956

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Felicola rohani Werneck, 1956

Werneck (1956) described the adult male and female of Felicola rohani from the Indian grey mongoose Herpestes edwardsii (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1818) introduced into the island of Mauritius by human agency. The natural distribution of H. edwardsii is in the eastern part of Saudi Arabia and the Indian subcontinent ( Mudappa & Choudhury 2016). Other host species for F. rohani include the Javan mongoose ( Herpestes javanicus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1818)) and the crab-eating mongoose ( Herpestes urva Hodgson, 1836 ) (Price et. al. 2003). These two Herpestes species are native in Malaysia ( Abdullah & Mammalian Research Group 2013; PERHILITAN 2010, 2017), therefore we hypothesize that F. rohani occurs in Malaysia.