Hoplopleura captiosa Johnson, 1960

Durden & Musser (1994) noted that Hoplopleura captiosa was probably a cosmopolitan species, possibly on the basis that this louse species had been recorded from the Nearctic, Palearctic and Oriental Regions (Johnson 1960; Arzamasov & Trukhan 1966; Kim 1966; Smetana & Daniel 1970; Beaucournu 1972; Rao et al. 1973; Sosnina & Davydov 1973; Kim & Emerson 1974; Gaaboub et al. 1981, 1982; Wegner 1991; Krištofík & Dudich 2000; Khosravani 2018; Hamidi & Nassirkhani 2019; Kozina et al. 2022). However, in Southeast Asia, H. captiosa was only reported in Thailand by Johnson (1960) and Kim (1966). Currently, there are no records of this louse species in Malaysia, although the type host of H. captiosa, Mus musculus, and several other species of Mus are known to be indigenous in this country (Abdullah & Mammalian Research Group 2013).