Family HOPLOPLEURIDAE
Compiler and date details
S.C. Barker Department of Parasitology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Introduction
Hoplopleuridae Ewing, 1929 are a diverse family that chiefly infests rodents. In Australia eight species from a single genus, containing 136 species worldwide, parasitise native and introduced rodents. Undoubtedly many species remain to be described from native rodents.