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BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)
BILATERIA
(bilaterally symmetrical animals)
PROTOSTOMIA
(protostomes)
ECDYSOZOA
(skin shedders)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
PTERYGOTA
(winged insects)
Neoptera
(an infraclass of insects)
Exopterygota
(insects with wings developing externally)
PHTHIRAPTERA
(sucking lice)
Phthiraptera
is also a member of:
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

PHTHIRAPTERA (sucking lice)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #photos #refs
Suborder ANOPLURA (lice) 3 2
Suborder MALLOPHAGA (chewing lice) 6 3

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Avery, R.A., 1974 (parasites of selected hosts) Identification of Animal Parasites
Séguy, E., 1944 Insectes Ectoparasites (Mallophages, Anoplures, Siphonaptères)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 2 general literature references to PHTHIRAPTERA (sucking lice)

PHTHIRAPTERA may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 ANIMALIA
(animals)		 ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)		 INSECTA
(insects)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 28 feeding and other relationships of PHTHIRAPTERA (sucking lice)

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