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JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY
Volume 96, Issue 5, Pages 874-878Publisher
AMER SOC PARASITOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2512.1
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- Madagascar Institut pour la Conservation des Ecosystemes Tropicaux (MICET)
- Marie Curie Early Training Actions
- Academy of Finland
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Sucking lice and ticks were collected from live-trapped eastern rufous mouse lemurs, Microcebus rufus Geoffroy, in and around the periphery of Ranomafana National Park, southeastern Madagascar, from 2007 to 2009. Samples of 53 sucking lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera: Anoplura) and 28 hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) were collected from 36 lemur captures representing 26 different host individuals. All of the lice were Lemurpediculus verruculosus (Ward) (6 males, 46 females, I third instar nymph). Only the holotype female was known previously for this louse and the host was stated to be a mouse lemur. Therefore, we describe the male and third instar nymph of L. verruculosus and confirm M. rufus as a host (possibly the only host) of this louse. All of the ticks were nymphs and consisted of 16 Haemaphysalis lemuris Hoogstraal, 11 Haemaphysalis sp., and 1 Ixodes sp. The last 2 ticks listed did not morphologically match any of the Madagascar Haemaphysalis or Ixodes ticks for which nymphal stages have been described.
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