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    Species Accepted

    Polyplax spinulosa (Burmeister, 1839)

    House Rat Louse
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Polyplax

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      Recorded as introduced in 7 countries or islands

      7 results
      Introduced inAccording toInvasiveOccurrences in GBIF
      CzechiaNo
      EcuadorNoUnknown
      EcuadorNo
      SpainNo
      FranceNo
      PolandNo
      United States of AmericaNo
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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      11 results
      House Rat Louse English
      Spiny rat louse English
      Wanderrattenlaus German
      Wesz szczurza Polish
      rottelus Norwegian Bokmål
      råttlus Swedish
      veš krysí Czech
      voš potkania Slovak
      Вошь крысиная Russian
      イエネズミジラミ Japanese

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      6 results
      Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas
      Nitzsch, C.L. (1864) Zeitschrift für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften, 23, 23–24.
      Zavaleta, D. (1946)
      Cuéllar-Rodríguez, G., de Luna, M., León-Espinosa, G.A. & Solís-Rojas, C. (2024) First record of the spiny rat louse, Polyplax spinulosa (Psocodea: Phthiraptera: Polyplacidae), for Nuevo Leon, Mexico. The Southwestern Naturalist, 68(3), 219–221. https://doi.org/10.1894/0038-4909-68.3.219
      Denny, H. (1842) Monographia anoplurorum Britanniae. Henry G. Bohn, London, xxvi+262 p.
      Burmeister, H.C.C. (1839) Genera Quaedam Insectorum. Iconibus Illustravit et Descripsit. Vol. I. Continet Tabulas XL. A. Burmeister, Berlin, 166 pp. [Often cited as 1839, but dates of publication state 1838-1846. Unpaginated.]

      Citation

      Polyplax spinulosa (Burmeister, 1839) in undefined