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Sucking lice (Anoplura, formerly known as Siphunculata) have around 500 species and represent the smaller of the two traditional superfamilies of lice. As opposed to the paraphyletic chewing lice , which are now divided among three suborders , the sucking lice are monophyletic .
Echinophthiriidae is a family of lice in the suborder Anoplura, the sucking lice. This family of lice are parasites of seals and the river otter, and are the only insects that infest aquatic hosts. [2] Antarctophthirus trichechi. These lice have adaptations influenced by the anatomy of their hosts.
Louse (pl.: lice) is the common name for any member of the clade Phthiraptera, which contains nearly 5,000 species of wingless parasitic insects.Phthiraptera has variously been recognized as an order, infraorder, or a parvorder, as a result of developments in phylogenetic research.
Eyes are present in all species within the Pediculidae family, but are reduced or absent in most other members of the Anoplura suborder. [8] Like other members of the Anoplura, head louse mouthparts are highly adapted for piercing the skin and sucking blood. [8] These mouth parts are retracted into the insect's head except during feeding. [9] [10]
Haematopinus suis, the hog louse, is one of the largest members of the louse suborder Anoplura, which consists of sucking lice that commonly afflict a number of mammals. H. suis is found almost solely on the skin surface of swine, and takes several blood meals a day from its host. [1]
Haematopinus is a genus of insects in the superfamily Anoplura, the sucking lice. [1] It is the only genus in the family Haematopinidae, [2] known commonly as the ungulate lice. [3] All known species are of importance in veterinary medicine. [2] These lice are some of the most economically important ectoparasites of domestic animals. [4]
William Elford Leach founded the orders Phasmida, Anoplura, Thysanura and Rhaphidides; the hemipterous families Pentatomidae, Coreidae, Belostomidae; the dipterous family Tipulidae and the hymenopterous family Chrysididae and published the first bibliography of entomology in Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclopedia.
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]