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Lice
Hoplopleura spicula Blagoveshtchensky, 1972
Ecological relationships
Parasite of Rattus turkestanicus
Relation notes:
The type host was originally recorded as Rattus losea celsus. If the identification to celsus is correct, the host is Rattus turkestanicus of which celsus is a synonym. Rattus losea does not occur in Yunnan (Musser and Carleton, 1993: 66 1). We have not s