Anoplura

Casandra Lloyd
Ecology Major
University of Georgia, Athens

Anopluran: Haematopinus eurysternus
Photograph Copyright 1996, Iowa State University's Entomology Image Gallery

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Overview

"The sucking lice are wingless, flat-bodied insects that look much like the chewing lice. The head, however, is narrower than the thorax, and the mouthparts are fitted for piercing the skin and sucking blood. They develop with gradual metamorphosis, the life stages being the egg, nymph, and adult. All adults are wingless. Sucking lice are parasitic on mammals but never attack birds."-- (1)

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Families
  • Echinophthiriidae
  • Haematopinidae
  • Pediculidae
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Identification guide

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Common names & synonyms

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Photographs
Headbug
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Classification & higher taxa
ClassInsectaInsects
OrderAnoplura Sucking lice

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Geographic distribution

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Natural history

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How to encounter

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Links to Other Sites

  • http://www.roberth.u-net.com/Sucklice.htm

  • http://ianrwww.unl.edu/ianr/entomol/history_bug/med_ent/anoplura.htm

  • http://insects.ucr.edu/ent205/snodgras/snod12.html

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    Acknowledgements

     1.http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/entomology/extension/4-H/Insects/ANOPLURA.html

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