Haematomyzus is a monotypic genus of lice with 3 species. The genus is placed in its own family Haematomyzidae, itself monotypic within the parvorder Rhynchophthirina (previously ranked as a superfamily). These unusual lice are ectoparasites of elephants and warthogs. Their mouthparts are elongated to form a drill-like structure that allows them to penetrate the thick skin of their host.
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象蝨屬（學名：Haematomyzus）原是蝨毛目（Phthiraptera）之下的一個屬，只有三個物種。由於本屬跟蝨毛目其他物種的差異太大，所以獨自放在象蝨亞目之內，而整個象蝨亞目之下亦只有象蝨科一個科。這些異於尋常的（ectoparasites）生活於亞洲象、非洲象和疣豬的表皮，其口器拉長，就好像鑽探工具那樣，能深入其宿主的厚皮。 自從啮虫总目（Psocodea）旗下分類重組，啮虫总目降格而成的新啮虫目，象蝨亞目開始整個系列也改為直接直屬新的啮虫目，成為象蝨總科。
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).