Hoplopleura Enderlein, 1904

Durden, Lance A., Robinson, Chase, Cook, Joseph A., Bell, Kayce C., Nyamsuren, Batsaikhan & Greiman, Stephen E., 2022, Sucking Lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura) Parasitizing Mongolian Rodents With The Description Of A New Species Of Hoplopleura From Mountain Voles (Alticola Spp.), Journal of Parasitology 108 (4), pp. 353-365 : 354

Genus Hoplopleura Enderlein, 1904

With characters of the family. Abdominal segments 2 and 3 each with a narrow, transverse, continuous sternal plate that extends completely across the ventral surface to articulate with the corresponding paratergal plates. Sternal plate on abdominal segment 3 with 2 groups of 2 or 3 enlarged, stout setae (note, this is amended here to ‘‘2 groups of 1–3 enlarged, stout setae’’ to accommodate the new species). Antennae 5-segmented.

Hoplopleura is the most speciose genus of sucking lice and it is distributed globally mainly as species that parasitize rodents, although a few Asian species parasitize lagomorphs (pikas) ( Sosnina et al., 1988; Durden and Musser, 1994; Sosnina and Dubinina, 1996). Durden and Musser (1994) listed 136 valid species of Hoplopleura worldwide but, with additional new species described since 1994, the current number of valid species in this genus has increased to 164 ( Durden et al., 2020).