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Friday Night Lice-Week 40

We have a very hairy mystery on our hands-hairy as in this species has many long setae as a defining feature.

Microscopic image of two lice.
A very hairy mystery. Photo by Emily Sandall (CC BY 2.0). Click for source.

Collected on a spiny pocket mouse, Liomys salvini volcani (J. A. Allen, 1908) (Rodentia: Heteromyidae) in Santa Rosa, Boaco, Nicaragua in June 1967, these two specimens are in the same family as Week 39‘s mystery louse.

Photo of a spiny pocket mouse among some leaves.
Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse trying to camouflage itself from lice. Photo by Wildlife Wanderer (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Click for source.

Do you have any idea of the species of these mystery lice? If you do, please comment. The mystery will be solved next week!

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