Polyplax serrata (Burmeister)

Reeves, Will K., Durden, Lance A. & Wrenn, William J., 2004, Ectoparasitic chiggers (Acari: Trombiculidae, Leeuwenhoekiidae), lice (Phthiraptera), and Hemiptera (Cimicidae and Reduviidae) from South Carolina, U. S. A., Zootaxa 647, pp. 1-20 : 12

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.158298

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:52622931-7DA7-4EF3-9AB9-47D8E47C9B4C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6269662

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C2738789-771D-EC1E-6D3C-FB0EFD095189

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Plazi

scientific name

Polyplax serrata (Burmeister)
status

 

Polyplax serrata (Burmeister)

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)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Phthiraptera

Family

Polyplacidae

Genus

Polyplax

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