Haematopinus suis ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

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Haematopinus suis ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Pediculus suis Linnaeus, 1758: 611 .

Haematopinus suis ( Linnaeus, 1758) ; Leach 1815: 77.

Pediculus urius Nitzsch, 1818: 305 .

Haematopinus suis (Linnaeus) ; Denny 1842: 34, pl. 25: fig. 2.

Haematopinus urius ( Nitzsch, 1818) ; Giebel 1874: 45, pl. 2: fig. 6.

Haematopinus urius ( Nitzsch, 1818) ; Piaget 1880: 654, pl. 48: fig. 4.

Haematopinus suis ( Linnaeus, 1758) ; Ferris 1933: 425, figs 252A, 253A, 254, 255E–X, 256.

Haematopinus suis ( Linnaeus, 1758) ; Ferris 1951: 91, figs 41, 42.

Haematopinus suis ; Mustaffa-Babjee 1969: 37.

Haematopinus suis ( Linnaeus, 1758) ; Kim et al. 1986: 86, pl. 20.

Haematopinus suis ( Linnaeus, 1758) ; Durden & Musser, 1994: 17.

Type host: Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758 —Wild boar.

Malaysian host: Sus scrofa .

Malaysian localities: “West Malaysia ” ( Mustaffa-Babjee (1969); Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia ( Ferris 1933); Bukit Mertajan, Peninsular Malaysia ( Ferris 1933).

Geographical distribution: Cosmopolitan, except Polar Regions ( Durden & Musser 1994; Price & Graham 1997).

Remarks: Ferris (1933, 1951) redescribed and illustrated Haematopinus suis , including a complete list of many described subspecies, which he regarded as junior synonyms. Kwak et al. (2019) documented the first record of H. suis in Singapore, located south of Peninsular Malaysia. Considering that Singapore wild boars originated from Peninsular Malaysia in the 21 st century ( Yong et al. 2010, Kwak et al. 2020), it follows that H. suis was already established in Malaysia, although there are few records of this louse species from this country (see above).

Song et al. (2014) found variation in the mitochondrial minichromosome composition between Haematopinus suis and H. asini . Haematopinus suis is known to harbor a multitude of disease-causing pathogens, such as the swine pox and African swine fever viruses ( Doster 1995; Sánchez-Cordón et al. 2018). Haematopinus suis is known as a vector of Mycoplasma suis , the aetiological agent of porcine infectious anaemia, recognized as medically important due its zoonotic potential, ( Hu et al. 2009; Acosta et al. 2019). Although hog lice are not known to bite humans, other vectors, such as ticks, may transmit pathogens from pigs to humans ( Wu et al. 2006).