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).