A preliminary report of the sucking lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera: Anoplura) of some small mammals of Turkey with four new records

• Published in: Transactions of the American Entomological Society
• Main Authors: Dik, Bilal, Selcuk, Ahmet Yesari, Kefelioglu, Haluk, Keskin, Adem
• Other Authors: Selçuk Üniversitesi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: AMER ENTOMOL SOC 2019
• Subjects: Polyplax; Hoplopleura; small mammals; sucking lice; Turkey; Ferris; Microtus arvalis
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12395/37439; https://doi.org/10.3157/061.145.0301

WOS: 000504765300003 A preliminary study was performed to detect the sucking lice (Insecta, Phthiraptera: Anoplura) on small mammals in different localities of Turkey, between the years of 2017-2018. Six specimens of sucking lice were collected from six different small mammalian species belonging to five different genera. The lice were identified as Polyplax borealis Ferris, Polyplax reclinata (Nitzsch), Polyplax serrata (Burmeister), Hoplopleura acanthopus (Burmeister) and Hoplopleura affinis (Burmeister). Polyplax borealis, P. reclinata, H. acanthopus and H. affinis are here reported from Turkey for the first time. With the present study, Microtus arvalis for P. borealis, Crocidura suaveolens for P. reclinata, Apodemus uralensis for P. serrata, Nannospalax leucodon and Apodemus witherbyi for H. affinis are reported as new-host associations. In addition, H. acanthopus was reported from Chionomys nivalis in Turkey, for the first time.