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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Pedicinus eurygaster
(
Burmeister, 1838
)
*
Notwithstanding that some old and recent studies have listed “
Malaysia
” as a country where
Pedicinus eurygaster
is present (
e.g.
Durden & Musser 1994
;
Durden
et al.
2020
), there is no evidence of any actual record for
P. eurygaster
in this country. Considering the many reports of this louse species from many countries and old specimens labelled with now archaic geographical names, the presence of
P. eurygaster
in
Malaysia
is unconfirmed. As an example,
Kellogg (1914)
mentioned that specimens of
Pedicinus longiceps
Piaget
—collected from “
Macacus cynomolgus
” (now
Macaca fascicularis
)—were from the “Malaysian region”. Years later,
Ferris (1934)
argued that these specimens were actually
P. eurygaster
from Natuna Island (as Natouna). However, Natuna Island is under Indonesian sovereignty, not Malaysian. More collections of lice from Malaysian macaques are needed to determine whether
P. eurygaster
is indeed present in
Malaysia
.
* For clarification of Burmeister’s date of publication, see
Durden
et al
. (2014)
and
Palma (2017)
.