PHTHIRAPTERA
(sucking lice, louse)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
ANOPLURA lice					Suborder	2 subtaxa	7 images	4 ident. refs
MALLOPHAGA chewing lice					Suborder	2 subtaxa	10 images	2 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Order	PHTHIRAPTERA (sucking lice, louse)
Division	Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

PHTHIRAPTERA is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
()	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:

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for PHTHIRAPTERA (sucking lice, louse)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 28 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for PHTHIRAPTERA (sucking lice, louse)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

PHTHIRAPTERA is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)