PHTHIRAPTERA
(sucking lice, louse)

PHTHIRAPTERA (sucking lice, louse) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

PHTHIRAPTERA (sucking lice, louse) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
interactions		 No of
references
ANOPLURA
lice
Suborder 7 subtaxa 17 trophisms 4 references
MALLOPHAGA
chewing lice
Suborder 6 subtaxa 11 trophisms 3 references
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)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for PHTHIRAPTERA (sucking lice, louse)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
() 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:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Thompson, G.B. 1939 A check-list and host-list of the ectoparasites recorded from British birds and mammals Transactions of the Society for British Entomology Vol 6(1): 1-22.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to PHTHIRAPTERA (sucking lice, louse):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 17 images of PHTHIRAPTERA (sucking lice, louse)
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