TABLE 1 in 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

TABLE 1. Families and genera of sucking lice that include species parasitic on members of the Sciuridae (squirrels, chipmunks, susliks and marmots).
Louse Families &GeneraNumber of speciesHost Tribe/sGeographical DistributionsEnderleinellidaeAtopophthirus2PteromyiniSoutheast AsiaEnderleinellus b47Nannosciurini, Funambulini, Protoxerini, Pteromyini, SciuriniNorth America, South America, Eurasia, AfricaHylophthirus new genus1PteromyiniSoutheast AsiaMicrophthirus1PteromyiniNorth AmericaPhthirunculus1PteromyiniSoutheast AsiaWerneckia5ProtoxeriniSub-Saharan AfricaHoplopleuridaeHoplopleura Enderlein, 1904b a,b19Nannosciurini, Marmotini, Sciurini, PteromyiniNorth America, Southern AsiaParadoxophthirus Chin, 19891MarmotiniSoutheast AsiaPolyplacidaeJohnsonpthirus Benoit, 19615ProtoxeriniAfricaLinognathoides Cummings, 191411Marmotini, XeriniNorth America, Central America, Eurasia, AfricaNeohaematopinus Mjöberg, 1910 a,b30Nannosciurini, Pteromyini, SciuriniNorth America, South America, EurasiacPolyplax Enderlein, 1904 aa1MarmotiniEurope
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).