Brueelia marginata (Burmeister)
(a feather louse)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesBrueelia marginata (a feather louse)
SuborderMALLOPHAGA (chewing lice)
OrderPHTHIRAPTERA (sucking lice, louse)
Division Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
Records of Brueelia marginata (a feather louse) :
1: Brueelia marginata (a feather louse)
28 Jul 2004 OSGR: SU56 51° 20’ N, 1° 10’ W Vice County: Berks (VC 22) England
Phoretic on side of abdomen of male, *Ornithomya avicularia*, on dead juvenile Blackbird under window
Image 1: On host - dorsal view - close-up - magnifiedImage 2: On host - dorsal view - magnifiedImage 3: On host - ventral view - magnifiedImage 4: Phoretic louse - close-up - magnified

Brueelia marginata (a feather louse) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 2 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Brueelia marginata (a feather louse)
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