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INSECTSOF MICRONESIAAnoplura,Supplement

By NIXON WILSONU NIVER SITY OF NORTHERN IO WA, CEDAR FALLS, IIO WA 50613

Reported here are two additiona l species, over ooked by Ferr is (1959,In s. Mi cronesia 8 (2) : 9-12), and severa l addi tion 1 recor ds of Anoplurafrom Mi cronesia. A key to the six species an d tab le showing their

Distribution of Mi cronesian Ana l lura

Micronesian Island Gr oups

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Ifaemat opinidae

H aematop inus All parts of world wheretuberculatus G X host occurs

If. suis G X All parts of world wherehost occurs

H oplopleur idae

Hoplopl eurapacifica X X X X X X X M ala gasy R ep . ,

SE Asia, Philippines ,Oceania , Caribbean ,SE United Sta tes

Linognathidae

Linogn athus Africa, Asia, Philippin es,africanu s X X H awaii, North Ameri ca

Pediculid ae

Pthirus pubis X X Cosmopolitan

Pediculushurnanus G X X X X X X Cosmopolitan

G indic ates Guam only.

KEY TO MICRONESIANSPECIES F ANOPLURA

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Haem.atopinus srds (Linnaeus) (fig. 1, b).

S. MARIANA IS. GUAM:ex Sus scrofa, June 1939.MICRONESIA . Mal e, no othe r data.

FI GUR E I. - a, Haematopinus tuberculatus: lat eral lobe of ab dome n; b, H. suis : lateral lobeof abd omen.

Haem.atopinus tuberculatus (Burme ister) (fi . 1, a).S. MARIANA IS . GUAM:m ale , two females Agana , ex Bas bubalus, May

1936, O. H. Swezey.

FAMILYHAEMATOPIN DAE

1. Abdomen wi th parat ergai plates.. .. . ... . . . . . ... . . ... ... . .. . 2Abdomen without par atergal plates Linognathus africanus

2. Eyes or postantennal ocular notch present 3Eyes and postant enn al ocular notch absent Hoplopleura pacifica

3. Postantennal ocular notch pr esent ; eyes absent 4Postant ennal ocular notch absen t; eyes pr esent. 5

4. With 5-8 slender setae on posterior margin of each la eral lobe of abdomen .... . . ... . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . .. . .. .. . Haexnatopinus tuberculatus

With 1-2 slender setae on posterior margin of each la era l lobe of abdom en .. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Haeznatopinus seds

5. Abdomin al tubercl es absent ; legs equa l in size f Pediculus humanusAbd omina l tub ercles present ; legs unequ al in size !. Pthirus pubis

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distribu tion In Mi crones ia are included . Recol~s for which the number ofspecimens ar e not given are from the tional Museum of NaturalHistory, courtesy of Dr. K. C. Emerson .

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Hoplopleura pacifica Ewing.S. MARIANA IS . SAIPAN: ex Rattus sp., Sept.-Oct . 1944, Ma y 1945;

ex Ratt us rattus, May 1945. TINIAN: ex Rattus sp., Apr . 1945.PALAU. PELELIU:ex Rattus norvegicus, Mar. 1945.CAROLINE ATOLLS. NAMOLUK (NAMORUKKU): 49 males , 120 females,

eight nymphs, Namoluk 1., 3 m, mixed pool of 63 Rattus exulans and fiveRattus rattus, Mar. 1971, K . M. Marshall.

PONAPE. ex Rattus rattus, Sepi .-Oct. 1955.KUSAIE. Male , Mutunlik, 22m, ex Rattus sp., Feb . 1953, J . F. G. Clarke.MARSHALL IS. ex R attus exulans, May, July 1944. KWAJALElN: two

males, two .females, 20 nymphs, ex Rattus exulans, Jan. 1966.GILBERT IS. Two females, nymph, ex Ra ttus sp., Jan. 1944, Maj. Weiss.Johnson (1964, Misc. Pub. , Ent. Soc. America 4 (3) : 67-102) has clarified

the status of Hoplopleurapacifica which for man y years was considered a syn­onym of H. oenomydis Ferris. The hosts in Micronesia are Rattus exulans, R.

norvegicus, and R. rattus.

Thi s species is not listed by Ferri s (op . cit.) who overlooked the record byMarshall (1955, J. Mammal. 36 (2) : 259-263) from the Ma rshall Islands. Thisrecord and a later one from Ponape (Jack son, in Storer, 1962, B. P. BishopMus. Bull. 225 : 191) ar e included in the tabl e on distribut ion.

Pediculus humanus (Linn aeus).S. MARIANA IS. GUAM:Dededo, Nov. 1937.CAROLINE ATOLLS. NAMOLUK (NAMORUKKU): thr ee mal es, 13 females,

seven nymphs, Namolu k 1., 3m, on head of 6 yr . old girl, Mar . 1970,K. M. Mar shall . NUKUORO(NUGORO): four males, 23 females, 1966, V.Carroll. KAPINGAMARANGl(GREENWICH) : ex man, Aug. 1946.

GILBERT IS. TARAWA: male , six females, three nymph s, Abaok oro, onhead of Gi1bertese, Dec. 1957, N . L. H . Kraus s.

Linognathus africanus Kellogg and Paine.S. MARIANA IS. SAIPAN:female, ex Capra hircus, Sept. 1944, Capt.

Gleiser.

This species is report ed from Ponap e by Hurlbut (1949, Pacific Sci. 3(3) : 278) but not listed by Ferris (op . cit.) .

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The specimens examined from Namoluwith others from Micronesia which Ferrisferred to the questionable form known as

, Nukuoro, and Tarawa agree

op. cit.) indicates could be re­ediculuspseudohumanusEwing.