Associate Professor and Associate Curator, Institute of Arthropodology & Parasitology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia 30460, USA
Reference for:
Polyplax gerbilli
Expert:
Vincent S. Smith
Notes:
Wellcome Trust Junior Research Fellow, Graham Kerr Building, DEEB, IBLS, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ. UK
Reference for:
Polyplax gerbilli
Source(s):
Source:
Mammal LouseBASE
Acquired:
2003-02-05
Notes:
http://r4-page.zoology.gla.ac.uk/MammalLouseBase/
Reference for:
Polyplax gerbilli
Publication(s):
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Durden, Lance A., and Guy G. Musser
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1994-01-19 / 1994-01-19
Article/Chapter Title:
The sucking lice (Insecta, Anoplura) of the world: a taxonomic checklist with records of mammalian hosts and geographical distributions
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 218
Page(s):
90
Publisher:
Publication Place:
ISBN/ISSN:
/0003-0090
Notes:
Reference for:
Polyplax gerbilli
Polyplax gerbilli: Geographic Information
Geographic Division:
Africa
Jurisdiction/Origin:
Polyplax gerbilli: Comments
Comment:
Original description/citation, per Durden & Musser (1994): 'Ferris, 1923. Contributions toward a monograph of the sucking lice, Part IV, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser., Biol. Sci. 2(4): 203.'
Comment:
Type locality: Stated to be Khartum, Egypt, by Ferris (1923), Khartoum, Egypt, by Ferris (1951), and Khartoum, Sudan, by Johnson (1960); we believe the last listed location to be the correct one.