Hoplopleura oryzomydis explained

Hoplopleura oryzomydis is a sucking louse that is known from the southern United States, Nicaragua, Panama, and Venezuela. It is known from several oryzomyine rodents: the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris), O. couesi, Handleyomys alfaroi, Transandinomys talamancae, Melanomys caliginosus, and Sigmodontomys alfari.^[1]

Literature cited

• Durden. Lance A.. Musser. Guy G.. Guy Musser. January 19, 1994. The sucking lice (Insecta, Anoplura) of the world: a taxonomic checklist with records of mammalian hosts and geographical distributions. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 218. 1–90. 2246/825.

Notes and References

1. Durden and Musser, 1994, p. 31