MALLOPHAGA
(chewing lice)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
Brueelia marginata
a feather louse
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 		Species 4 images
Mallophaga (unidentified)
Unidentified Chewing Lice
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 		Unidentified 6 images
Taxonomic hierarchy:
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)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
() Avery, R.A. 1974 Identification of Animal Parasites Hulton Group Keys, 182pp, Hulton Educational Publications Ltd.
Séguy, E. 1944 Insectes Ectoparasites (Mallophages, Anoplures, Siphonaptères) Faune de France, Faune No 43, 684pp, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Science Naturel

MALLOPHAGA (chewing lice) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 11 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for MALLOPHAGA (chewing lice)
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