Ectoparasitic chiggers (Acari: Trombiculidae, Leeuwenhoekiidae), lice (Phthiraptera), and Hemiptera (Cimicidae and Reduviidae) from South Carolina, U. S. A.
Author
Reeves, Will K.
Author
Durden, Lance A.
Author
Wrenn, William J.
text
Zootaxa
2004
647
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.158298
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158298
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Neohaematopinus sciuropteri
(Osborn)
Pickens Co., Clemson,
14 December 1940
, ex
Glaucomys volans
, coll. R.E. Hare.
This louse is an ectoparasite of flying squirrels,
Glaucomys
spp. (Durden & Musser 1994). Kim
et al.
(1986) reported collections of this louse from Clemson, South Carolina.
Neohaematopinus sciuropteri
is an enzootic vector of
R. prowazekii
to
G. volans
(Durden 2002)
.