Vol. 101, No. 4, September & October 1990 225 SUCKING LICE (ANOPLURA) FROM PAKISTAN MAMMALS, WITH NOTES ON ZOOGEOGRAPHY* L.A. Durden , R. Traub , K.C. Emerson^ ABSTRACT: Anoplura collected from wild rodents, insectivores and canids in Pakistan are documented. Twenty-two species of lice were recovered as follows: Hoplopleura (8), Linognathoides (1), Neohaematopinus (1), Polyplax (12). At least 14 of these species are re-corded from Pakistan for the first time and some significant range extensions are estab-lished. Some of the records pertain to species previously known only from the type series or from other limited collections. Zoogeographically, Pakistan's anopluran fauna has strong Palearctic affinities although elements of this fauna showclear Oriental, Ethiopian or cos-mopolitan associations. Except for records of widespread species or descriptions of new taxa, the sucking lice (Anoplura) of Pakistan are poorly known. This is sur-prising because contributions documenting the anopluran fauna of adjacent regions in Afghanistan (Smetana and Daniel, 1970), India (numerous papers), Iran (Kim and Emerson, 1971), southern USSR (numerous papers) and the People's Republic of China (numerous papers) are available. Mishra (1981) produced a monograph of the hoplopleurid sucking lice of the Indian subcontinent and included the Pakistan fauna only from the Indus valley eastwards to the Indian bor-der; however, that work principally addressed the Indian fauna and no specific records for Pakistan are given. This paper provides records of sucking lice from wild land mammals (mainly rodents) obtained in Pakistan from 1962-1979. Most specimens were collected by field teams of the Department of Microbiology, Uni-versity of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore under the direction of Robert Traub. Additional material was collected by Robert G. Tuck, then with the Division of Mammals, National Museum of Natural His-tory (NMNH), Washington, D.C. Collection data for the 22 species of sucking lice recovered during these surveys includes hosts, collection localities, altitude (if available) and dates, followed by remarks. Louse synonymies listed are not new but are important to this study. Host mammal names follow Honacki etal. (1982) and Anoplura classification follows Kim and Ludwig (1978). Louse and host mammal material documented here is deposited in the collections of the NMNH, Washing-ton, D.C. ^Received 25 November, 1989. Accepted 30 March, 1990. Department of Entomology, Museum Support Center. Smithsonian Institution, Wash-ington, D.C. 20560 3 560 Boulder Drive, Sanibel, Florida 33957 ENT. NEWS 101(4): 225-235, September & October. 1990
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