Hoplopleura hirsuta

Hoplopleura hirsuta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Psocodea
Family:	Hoplopleuridae
Genus:	Hoplopleura
Species:	H. hirsuta
Binomial name
Hoplopleura hirsuta Ferris, 1916

Hoplopleura hirsuta is a sucking louse that is known from North, Central, and South America. Its main hosts are cotton rats such as Sigmodon hispidus, Sigmodon ochrognathus, Sigmodon peruanus, and Sigmodon arizonae.[1]

References

1. Durden and Musser, 1994, p. 27

Literature cited

• Durden, L.A. and 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.