南アフリカのGrant's Rock Mouse, Micaelamys grantiから得られた2種の吸汁性シラミ（Phthiraptera: Anoplura: HoplopleururidaeとPolyplacidae）

Two New Species of Sucking Lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura: Hoplopleuridae and Polyplacidae) from Grant's Rock Mouse, Micaelamys granti, in South Africa.

• Lance A Durden
• Sonja Matthee
• Johannes C Bothma
• Stephen E Greiman
• Conrad A Matthee

抄録

南アフリカのノーザンケープ州に生息するGrant's rock mouse, Micaelamys granti (Wroughton)から、Hoplopleura granti n. sp. (Hoplopleuridae)とPolyplax megacephalus n. sp. (Polyplacidae)の2種の新種の吸盤シラミ（Phthiraptera: Anoplura）を報告した。成虫は雌雄ともに線画と微分干渉顕微鏡画像で説明し、近縁の宿主に寄生する近縁種との比較を行っている。Hoplopleura patersoni Johnson from Aethomys chrysophilus (de Winton) (red veld rat)、Aethomys kaiseri (Noack) (Kaiser's aethomys)、Micaelamys namaquensis (A.Smith）（Namaqua rock mouse）；M. namaquensisのHoplopleura aethomydis Kleynhans；A. chrysophilusとM. namaquensisのPolyplax praomydis Bedford；A. chrysophilusのPolyplax solivaga JohnsonからのPolyplax solivaga Johnson。これらの新種のシラミが病原体の媒介者であるかどうかは不明である。

Two new species of sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura), Hoplopleura granti n. sp. (Hoplopleuridae) and Polyplax megacephalus n. sp. (Polyplacidae), are described from Grant's rock mouse, Micaelamys granti (Wroughton), from Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Adults of both sexes are illustrated via line drawings and differential interference contrast microscopy images, and are compared with previously described related species that parasitize related hosts: Hoplopleura patersoni Johnson from Aethomys chrysophilus (de Winton) (red veld rat), Aethomys kaiseri (Noack) (Kaiser's aethomys), and Micaelamys namaquensis (A. Smith) (Namaqua rock mouse); Hoplopleura aethomydis Kleynhans from M. namaquensis; Polyplax praomydis Bedford from A. chrysophilus and M. namaquensis; and Polyplax solivaga Johnson from A. chrysophilus. It is not known if these new species of lice are vectors of any pathogens.

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