Polyplax spinulosa

Polyplax spinulosa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Psocodea
Family:	Polyplacidae
Genus:	Polyplax
Species:	P. spinulosa
Binomial name
	Polyplax spinulosa; (Burmeister, 1839)
Synonyms
	Pediculus spinulosus Burmeister, 1839; Haematopinus spinulosus: Denny, 1842; Pediculus denticulatus Nitzsch, 1864; Haematopinus (Polyplax) spinulosus: Neumann, 1909; Polyplax campylopteri Zavaleta, 1945;

Polyplax spinulosa is a sucking louse (Anoplura) from the genus Polyplax. It occurs worldwide and commonly infects its type host, the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), and related species like the black rat (Rattus rattus), Rattus pyctoris, Rattus nitidus, Rattus argentiventer, Rattus tanezumi, Rattus exulans, and Bandicota indica.^[2] It is also occasionally found in other rodents, such as the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) in North America.^[3]