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Myobia musculi Koch

Description

Myobia musculi (Koch)

Ex Mus musculus (house mouse): 1F, TN, Blount Co., Elkmont, 6 Jul. 1937, W. King; 3F, TN, Blount Co., Cades Cove School House, 4 Sep. 1936, R. V. D.; 1F, TN, Sevier Co., Park Headquarters, 6 Jul. 1937, E. R. Myobia musculi has an almost cosmopolitan distribution as an ectoparasite of the house mouse although Whitaker & Wilson (1974) also recorded it in North America from two additional rodent species.

Notes

Published as part of Reeves, Will K., Durden, Lance A., Ritzi, Christopher M., Beckham, Katy R., Super, Paul E & Oconnor, Barry M., 2007, Ectoparasites and other ectosymbiotic arthropods of vertebrates in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA, pp. 31-68 in Zootaxa 1392 on page 54, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.273680

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Calliphoridae
Genus
Myobia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Koch
Species
musculi
Taxon rank
species