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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Haematopinus quadripertusus
Fahrenholz
Florence Co., Florence,
September 1949
, ex
Bos taurus
, coll. M.D. Farrar.
Haematopinus quadripertusus
was intercepted on a shipment of 100 head of cattle from Florida. The cattle tail louse,
H. quadripertusus
, is primarily restricted to tropical and subtropical regions and was previously unreported in
South Carolina. Kim
et al.
(1986)
reported
US
records only from Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and
Puerto Rico
.