Polyplax serrata

• Main Authors: Kazim, Abdul-Rahman, Houssaini, Jamal, Tappe, Dennis, Heo, Chong-Chin
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Psocodea; Polyplacidae; Polyplax; Polyplax serrata; Ferris; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7390942; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7390942

Polyplax serrata (Burmeister, 1838) Pediculus serratus Burmeister, 1838 *: Species 6. Haematopinus serratus; Denny 1842: 36. Polyplax serrata (Burmeister, 1838); Enderlein 1904a: 142. “ Polyplax affinis (Burm.) ”; Fahrenholz 1912a: 39, figs 13–15. Not Polyplax affinis Burmeister, 1838 Polyplax serrata (Burmeister, 1839) [sic]; Ferris 1923: 191, figs 120B, E. Polyplax serrata (Burmeister); Jancke 1932: 252. Polyplax affinis Fahrenholz, 1938: 261. Polyplax serrata (Burmeister, 1839) [sic]; Ferris 1951: 210. Polyplax serrata (Burmeister, 1839) [sic]; Wegner 1974: 203, figs 1–6. Polyplax serrata (Burmeister, 1839) [sic]; Mishra 1981: 101, figs 226–228, 232–234. Polyplax serrata (Burmeister, 1839) [sic]; Kim et al. 1986: 204, pl. 74. Polyplax serrata (Burmeister, 1839) [sic]; Durden & Musser 1994: 73. Polyplax serrata (Burmeister, 1838); Durden et al. 2014: 258. Polyplax serrata (Burmeister, 1838); Palma 2017: 243, figs 210–211. Type host: Mus musculus Linnaeus, 1758 —House mouse. Malaysian host: “Rats”. Malaysian localities: Negeri Sembilan & Selangor, Peninsular Malaysia (Mohd-Said et al. 2014). Geographical distribution: Cosmopolitan except Antarctica (Durden & Musser 1994; Price & Graham 1997). Remarks: The adult male and female of Polyplax serrata were illustrated by Kim et al. (1986), and Wegner (1974) made a detailed analysis of the morphological variation of P. serrata from several hosts. Mohd-Said et al. (2014) collected Polyplax serrata from unidentified rats in Selangor and Negeri Sembilan, but the authors noted that Rattus tiomanicus was the most dominant species in the collecting areas. Considering that P. serrata is mainly infests mice of the genus Apodemus and the house mouse (Durden & Musser 1994), the Malaysian records are likely to be stragglers. * For clarification of Burmeister’s date of publication, see Durden et al. (2014) and Palma (2017). Published as part of Kazim, Abdul-Rahman, Houssaini, Jamal, Tappe, Dennis & Heo, Chong-Chin, 2022, An annotated checklist of ...