PHTHIRAPTERA
(sucking lice, louse)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
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Suborder 2 subtaxa 7 images 4 ident. refs
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Suborder 2 subtaxa 10 images 2 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
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

PHTHIRAPTERA (sucking lice, louse) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for PHTHIRAPTERA (sucking lice, louse)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 28 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for PHTHIRAPTERA (sucking lice, louse)
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