Felicola rohani Werneck, 1956

Kazim, Abdul-Rahman, Houssaini, Jamal, Tappe, Dennis & Heo, Chong-Chin, 2023, An annotated checklist of the chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera, Amblycera Rhynchophthirina) from domestic and wild mammals in Malaysia, Zootaxa 5263 (1), pp. 40-60 : 51

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5263.1.2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0D65E7BE-489B-49A4-A6F2-E1DA6962EF02
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7805280
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scientific name	Felicola rohani Werneck, 1956
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Werneck (1956) described the adult male and female of Felicola rohani from the Indian grey mongoose Herpestes edwardsii (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1818) introduced into the island of Mauritius by human agency. The natural distribution of H. edwardsii is in the eastern part of Saudi Arabia and the Indian subcontinent ( Mudappa & Choudhury 2016). Other host species for F. rohani include the Javan mongoose ( Herpestes javanicus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1818)) and the crab-eating mongoose ( Herpestes urva Hodgson, 1836 ) (Price et. al. 2003). These two Herpestes species are native in Malaysia ( Abdullah & Mammalian Research Group 2013; PERHILITAN 2010, 2017), therefore we hypothesize that F. rohani occurs in Malaysia.