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Anoplura, commonly known as sucking lice, is a taxon at the parvorder rank within the order Phthiraptera. This group belongs to the class Insecta and the phylum Arthropoda. The taxon name Anoplura was established by Leach in 1815, and its status is currently accepted. It is also referred to by the common name ekte lus.
The habitat for this organism is classified as marine. A search for "Sucking louse" in PubMed yields 1956 records. The subject is referenced by 133 other encyclopedia articles.
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Species
sucking lice
Suborder
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderPhthiraptera
Bitlər (lat. Anoplura) — buğumayaqlılar tipinin açıqçənəlilər yarımfəsiləsinə aid olan dəstə.
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Research
1,956 papers- GENOMICS AND MORPHOLOGY RESOLVE CHIPMUNK SUCKING LOUSE SYSTEMATICS (GENUS HOPLOPLEURA).The Journal of parasitology · 2025
- A new species of sucking louse (Psocodea: Phthiraptera: Anoplura: Hoplopleuridae) from the pale field rat, Rattus tunneyi (Rodentia: Muridae), in Australia.Zootaxa · 2022
- Host-ectoparasite relationships.Journal of medical entomology · 1975
- A circumpolar parasite: Evidence of a cryptic undescribed species of sucking louse, Linognathus sp., collected from Arctic foxes, Vulpes lagopus, in Nunavut (Canada) and Svalbard (Norway).Medical and veterinary entomology · 2023
- Disentangling lousy relationships: Comparative phylogenomics of two sucking louse lineages parasitizing chipmunks.Molecular phylogenetics and evolution · 2021
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Encyclopedic overview
Sucking lice (known scientifically as Anoplura) are a parvorder of around 550 species of lice. All sucking lice are blood-feeding ectoparasites of mammals. They can cause localized skin irritations and are vectors of several blood-borne diseases.
At least three species or subspecies of Anoplura are parasites of humans; the human condition of being infested with sucking lice is called pediculosis. Pediculus humanus is divided into two subspecies, Pediculus humanus humanus, or the human body louse, sometimes nicknamed "the seam squirrel" for its habit of laying of eggs in the seams of clothing, and Pediculus humanus capitis, or the human head louse. Pthirus pubis (the human pubic louse) is the cause of the condition known as crabs.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sucking louse” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.