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    Species Accepted

    Polyplax spinulosa (Burmeister, 1839)

    House Rat Louse

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      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

      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      10 results
      House Rat Louse English
      Spiny rat louse English
      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
      棘多板蝨 Chinese

      Treatments

      4 results

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      9 results
      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.] Published in
      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
      Nitzsch, C.L. (1864) Zeitschrift für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften, 23, 23–24.
      Denny, H. (1842) Monographia anoplurorum Britanniae. Henry G. Bohn, London, xxvi+262 p.
      Figueroa, C., Benavides‐Céspedes, I., Ardila, M.M., Gil, L., Herrera, L., Salazar‐Silva, C.H., Landaeta‐Aqueveque, C., Muñoz‐Leal, S., Silva‐de la Fuente, M.C., Cicchino, A.C. & Moreno, L. (2025) Spatial and seasonal distribution of rodent sucking lice (Psocodea: Anoplura) in northern Chile. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 40(1), 43–55. https://doi.org/10.1111/mve.70036
      Zavaleta, D. (1946)
      Durden, & Musser. (1994). The sucking lice (Insecta, Anoplura) of the world: A taxonomic checklist with records of mammalian hosts and geographical distributions.
      Dyntaxa (2021). Svensk taxonomisk databas. Besökt på www.dyntaxa.se den ('dagens datum').
      de Jong. (2013). Fauna Europaea - all European animal species on the web: version 2.6.2.

      Citation

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