A new genus and new species of sucking louse (Phthiraptera: Anoplura: Enderleinellidae) from the particoloured flying squirrel (Hylopetes alboniger) in Laos, and an updated identification key to enderleinellid genera Author Durden, Lance A. 0000-0002-7382-6319 Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia 30458, U. S. A. Author Beati, Lorenza 0000-0002-4848-9701 Institute for Coastal Plain Science, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia 30458, U. S. A. Author Greiman, Stephen E. 0000-0003-0654-8977 Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia 30458, U. S. A. Author Abramov, Alexei V. 0000-0001-9709-4469 Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia 30458, U. S. A. & Laboratory of Mammalogy, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1, Saint Petersburg 199034, Russia. & Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia 30458, U. S. A. & Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia 30458, U. S. A. text Zootaxa 2024 2024-02-01 5405 4 545 561 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5405.4.4 journal article 287325 10.11646/zootaxa.5405.4.4 7fada46b-fb10-4fe7-bd4b-131e5010f568 1175-5326 10603809 6D9EABA1-5F46-4A77-AA70-7E7897120FFD

TABLE 1. Families and genera of sucking lice that include species parasitic on members of the Sciuridae (squirrels, chipmunks, susliks and marmots).

Louse Families &Genera	Number of species	Host Tribe/s	Geographical Distributions
Enderleinellidae
a Except for Hoplopleura, Neohaematopinus and Polyplax, all known species in the remaining genera exclusively parasitise sciurid rodents. b Three species of squirrel-associated lice, Enderleinellus longiceps, Hoplopleura sciuricola and Neohaematopinus sciuri, have accompanied their host, the eastern grey squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis Gmelin, from North America to some other parts of the world as intentional or accidental squirrel introductions [Thompson 1935; Davis 1951 (louse misidentified as Neohaematopinus sciurinus), Durden & Musser 1994]. c Neohaematopinus callosciuri has accompanied its intentionally introduced host, Callosciurus erythraeus (Pallas squirrel), from Taiwan to Japan (Shinozaki et al. 2003, 2004).
Atopophthirus	2	Pteromyini	Southeast Asia
Enderleinellus b	47	Nannosciurini, Funambulini, Protoxerini, Pteromyini, Sciurini	North America, South America, Eurasia, Africa
Hylophthirus new genus	1	Pteromyini	Southeast Asia
Microphthirus	1	Pteromyini	North America
Phthirunculus	1	Pteromyini	Southeast Asia
Werneckia	5	Protoxerini	Sub-Saharan Africa
Hoplopleuridae
Hoplopleura Enderlein, 1904b a,b	19	Nannosciurini, Marmotini, Sciurini, Pteromyini	North America, Southern Asia
Paradoxophthirus Chin, 1989	1	Marmotini	Southeast Asia
Polyplacidae
Johnsonpthirus Benoit, 1961	5	Protoxerini	Africa
Linognathoides Cummings, 1914	11	Marmotini, Xerini	North America, Central America, Eurasia, Africa
Neohaematopinus Mjöberg, 1910 a,b	30	Nannosciurini, Pteromyini, Sciurini	North America, South America, Eurasiac
Polyplax Enderlein, 1904 aa	1	Marmotini	Europe