Hamophthirius galeopitheci Mjöberg, 1925

Kazim, Abdul-Rahman, Houssaini, Jamal, Tappe, Dennis & Heo, Chong-Chin, 2022, An annotated checklist of sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura) from domestic and wild mammals in Malaysia, with lists of hosts and pathogens, Zootaxa 5214 (3), pp. 301-336 : 309

Hamophthirius galeopitheci Mjöberg, 1925

Hamophthirius galeopitheci Mjöberg, 1925: 283 , fig. 1.

Hamophthirius galeopitheci Mjöberg, 1925 ; Ferris 1932a: 307, fig. 187.

Hamophthirius galeopitheci Mjöberg, 1925 ; Ferris 1951: 183.

Hamophthirius galeopitheci Mjöberg, 1925 ; Johnson 1969: 420, figs 1–12.

Hamophthirius galeopitheci Mjöberg, 1925 ; Kim & Ludwig 1978: 271.

Hamophthirius galeopitheci Mjöberg, 1925 ; Durden & Musser 1994: 17.

Type host: “ Galeopithecus sp. ” = Cynocephalus variegatus (Audebert, 1799) —Sunda flying lemur.

Malaysian host: Cynocephalus variegatus .

Malaysian localities: “Jesselton” = Kota Kinabalu (Sabah) Malaysian Borneo ( Johnson 1969); Ranau (Sabah) Malaysian Borneo ( Johnson 1969)

Geographical distribution: Southeast Asia ( Durden & Musser 1994).

Remarks: Considering the unique morphology of Hamophthirius galeopitheci, Mjöberg (1925) was not able to place it in any known family of sucking lice. Johnson (1969) studied new material and was able to redescribe and illustrate the male, the female and two nymphal instars of H. galeopitheci , concluding that a new family— Hamophthiriidae —was needed to accomodate this species.