Sucking lice

SUCKING LICE

Order :  Siphunculata / Anoplura  (Sucking Lice)

FAMILY

  • Haematopinidae
  • Linognathidae

HEAD

  • Eyes absent
  • Head with forward prolongation- temporal angles behind antenna
  • Eyes Absent

THORAX

  • Thorax broad
  • Marked paratergal plates
  • Thorax narrow
  • Paratergal plates absent - membraneous

ABDOMEN

  • Abdomen broad
  • One row of spines on each abdominal segment

LEGS

  • All three pairs of legs similar in size
  • Tarsi with one claw, hair held between claw and a thumb like process on ventral apical angle of tibia- spiny pad- tibial pad
  • 1st pair of legs smallest

Ex.

  • H.tuberculatus (buffalo louse)
  • Hematopinus quadripertusus (Tail switch louse)
  • Haematopinus suis (hog louse)
  • H.eurysternus (cattle louse) 

 Ex.

  • Linognathus vituli (Long nosed cattle louse)
  • L.stenopsis (goat louse)
  • Pediculus humanus (human head louse)
  • Phthirus pubis (human pubic louse)

Last modified: Friday, 23 September 2011, 6:17 AM