An annotated checklist of sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura) from domestic and wild mammals in Malaysia, with lists of hosts and pathogens
Author
Kazim, Abdul-Rahman
0000-0002-6269-8390
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
Author
Houssaini, Jamal
0000-0002-6269-8390
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
Author
Tappe, Dennis
0000-0002-4493-0395
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4493 - 0395
Author
Heo, Chong-Chin
0000-0002-6269-8390
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
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-12-02
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journal article
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Sathrax durus
Johnson, 1964
Sathrax durus
Johnson, 1964: 81
, figs 67–75.
Tupaiphthirus dolabrifer
Chin
, 1975
: figs 1 –8.
Sathrax durus
Johnson, 1964
;
Durden & Musser 1994: 75
.
Type
host:
Tupaia glis
(Diard & Duvaucel, 1820)
—Common treeshrew.
Malaysian hosts:
Tupaia glis
,
Rattus exulans
(Peale, 1848)
.
Malaysian localities: Bukit Lagong Forest Reserve &, Ulu Langat Forest Reserve. (
Selangor
) Peninsular
Malaysia
(
Johnson, 1964
); “Maxwell’s Hill”, Bukit Larut (
Perak
) Peninsular
Malaysia
(
Johnson, 1964
).
Geographical distribution:
Indonesia
(
Kalimantan
),
Malaysia
,
People’s Republic of China
(
Yunnan Province
),
Vietnam
(
Durden & Musser 1994
;
Price & Graham 1997
;
Guo
et al.
2004a
,b;
Dong
et al.
2009
;
Zuo
et al.
2011
).
Remarks: The adult male and female of
Sathrax durus
were described and illustrated by
Johnson (1964)
. Besides the
type
host,
S. durus
has been recorded from northern treeshrews,
Tupaia belangeri
(Wagner, 1841)
in
China
(
Guo
et al.
2004a
,b;
Dong
et al.
2009
;
Zuo
et al.
2011
). Further,
Madinah
et al.
(2014)
listed three nymphs of a
Sathrax
sp.
collected from
Rattus exulans
in the Malaysian tropical rainforests, but they did not discuss the fact that
R. exulans
is an unlikely natural host for a louse species from shrews. Considering the current patchy geographical distribution of
S. durus
, and the large number of known species of
Tupaia
, more collections are needed to determine the complete host range and distribution of this louse species in the Oriental Region.
In a scanning electron microscopy study of sucking lice parasitic on treeshrews,
Durden (1984)
suggested that the cephalic interspine outgrowths on the head of
S. durus
enabled the parasite to grip on the host epidermis, instead of interlocking with the host underfur hairs.