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Neohaematopinus capitaneus Johnson 1959

  • 1. Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh Campus, Jalan Hospital, 47000 Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6269 - 8390
  • 2. Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh Campus, Jalan Hospital, 47000 Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6269 - 8390 & Institute of Pathology, Laboratory and Forensic Medicine (I-PPerForM), Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh Campus, Jalan Hospital, 47000 Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2254 - 2743
  • 3. Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4493 - 0395

Description

Neohaematopinus capitaneus Johnson, 1959

Neohaematopinus capitaneus Johnson, 1959: 587, figs 45–47, 50, 56–57, 60.

Neohaematopinus capitaneus Johnson, 1959; Durden & Musser 1994: 61.

Type host: Hylopetes phayrei (Blyth, 1849) —Indochinese flying squirrel.

Malaysian host: Hylopetes spadiceus (Blyth, 1847).

Malaysian localities: Labis & Paloh Forest Reserves (Johor) Peninsular Malaysia; “Maxwell’s Hill”, Bukit Larut (Perak) Peninsular Malaysia.

Geographical distribution: Malaysia, Thailand (Durden & Musser 1994; Price & Graham 1997).

Remarks: The adult male and female of Neohaematopinus capitaneus were described and illustrated by Johnson (1959). Voucher specimens of Malaysian records are held in the collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C.

Notes

Published as part of Kazim, Abdul-Rahman, Houssaini, Jamal, Tappe, Dennis & Heo, Chong-Chin, 2022, An annotated checklist of sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura) from domestic and wild mammals in Malaysia, with lists of hosts and pathogens, pp. 301-336 in Zootaxa 5214 (3) on page 316, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5214.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7389119

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References

  • Johnson, P. T. (1959) The rodent-infesting Anoplura (sucking lice) of Thailand, with remarks on some related species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 110 (3421), 569 - 598. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.110 - 3421.569
  • Durden, L. A. & Musser, G. G. (1994) The sucking lice (Insecta, Anoplura) of the world: a taxonomic checklist with records of mammalian hosts and geographical distributions. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 218, 1 - 90.
  • Price, M. A. & Graham, O. H. (1997) Chewing and sucking lice as parasites of mammals and birds. United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., 320 pp.