Haematomyzus elephantis Piaget, 1869

Kazim, Abdul-Rahman, Houssaini, Jamal, Tappe, Dennis & Heo, Chong-Chin, 2023, An annotated checklist of the chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera, Amblycera Rhynchophthirina) from domestic and wild mammals in Malaysia, Zootaxa 5263 (1), pp. 40-60 : 49

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scientific name	Haematomyzus elephantis Piaget, 1869
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Haematomyzus elephantis Piaget, 1869 View in CoL View at ENA

Haematomyzus elephantis Piaget, 1869: 254 View in CoL .

Haematomyzus longirostris Piaget, 1869: 254 View in CoL .

Idolocoris elephantis Walker, 1872: 132 View in CoL , fig. 67.

Phantasmocoris elephantis ( Walker, 1872) ; White 1872: 234.

Haematomyzus proboscideus Piaget, 1880: 658 View in CoL , pl. 49: figs 2, 2h.

Haematomyzus paradoxus Lahille, 1908: 189 View in CoL , figs 1–9.

Haematomyzus elephantis sumatranus Fahrenholz, 1910: 714 View in CoL .

Haematomyzus elephantis elephantis Piaget, 1869 View in CoL ; Hopkins 1949: 521.

Haematomyzus elephantis Piaget, 1869 View in CoL ; Werneck 1950: 199, figs 306–315.

Haematomyzus elephantis Piaget, 1869 View in CoL ; Jeffery et al. 1999: 51.

Haematomyzus elephantis Piaget, 1869 View in CoL ; Price et al. 2003: 79.

Type host: Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797) —Bush African elephant.

Type locality: Rotterdam Zoo , Netherlands .

Malaysian host: Elephas maximus indicus Cuvier, 1798 .

Malaysian locality: Kuala Krai (Kelantan) Peninsular Malaysia ( Jeffery et al. 1999).

Geographical distribution: Central and southern Africa, and Southeast Asia.

Remarks: Jeffery et al. (1999) collected Haematomyzus elephantis from a captive Indian elephant in the Kuala Krai Mini Zoo. As Indian elephants are native in both Peninsular Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo, it is likely that H. elephantis will be found parasitising free-living elephants in Malaysia.