Ectoparasites and other ectosymbiotic arthropods of vertebrates in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA
Reeves, Will K.
Durden, Lance A.
Ritzi, Christopher M.
Beckham, Katy R.
Super, Paul E
Oconnor, Barry M.
Zootaxa
2007
1392
31
68
Jancke
Jancke
[151,541,991,1017]
Insecta
Polyplacidae
Neohaematopinus
Animalia
Phthiraptera
3
34
Arthropoda
species
sciuri
Ex Sciurus carolinensis(gray squirrel): 1F, TN, Cocke Co., Cosby, 29 May 2001, W. K. Reeves, L2979. In eastern North America, this louse is a host specific parasite of the gray squirrel ( Kim et al. 1986, Durden & Musser 1994). Durden (1980)found this louse to be abundant on S. carolinensisin central Tennessee but the above record is the first one for the GSMNP. Several genotypes of undescribed Bartonellahave been isolated from this louse (Durden et al. 2004).