Hoplopleura oryzomydis is a sucking louse that is known from the southern United States, Nicaragua, Panama, and Venezuela. It is known from several oryzomyine rodents: the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris), O. couesi, Handleyomys alfaroi, Transandinomys talamancae, Melanomys caliginosus, and Sigmodontomys alfari.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Psocodea |
| Family: | Hoplopleuridae |
| Genus: | Hoplopleura |
| Species: | H. oryzomydis
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| Hoplopleura oryzomydis Pratt and Lane, 1951
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References
edit- ^ Durden and Musser, 1994, p. 31
Literature cited
edit- Durden, Lance A.; Musser, Guy G. (January 19, 1994). "The sucking lice (Insecta, Anoplura) of the world: a taxonomic checklist with records of mammalian hosts and geographical distributions". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (218): 1–90. hdl:2246/825.