Polyplax serrata (Burmeister)
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.158298 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6269662 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C2738789-771D-EC1E-6D3C-FB0EFD095189 |
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Plazi |
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Polyplax serrata (Burmeister) |
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Oconee Co., Seneca, 14 January 2004, 18 February 2004, ex Mus musculus Linnaeus , coll. W.K. Reeves.
The house mouse louse has a cosmopolitan distribution with its host, the house mouse. This louse was not previously known from South Carolina. Lice were from mice sold from a pet store. Polyplax serrata is a vector of Eperythrozoon coccoides Schilling to M. musculus (Berkenkamp & Wescott 1988)
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