Pediculus is a genus of sucking lice, the sole genus in the family Pediculidae. Pediculus species are ectoparasites of primates. Species include: Pediculus...
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Head louse (redirect from Pediculus humanus capitis)
The head louse (Pediculus humanus capitis) is an obligate ectoparasite of humans. Head lice are wingless insects that spend their entire lives on the...
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Pediculus humanus is a species of louse that infects humans. It comprises two subspecies: Pediculus humanus humanus Linnaeus, 1758 – body louse Pediculus...
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Body louse (redirect from Pediculus humanus humanus)
The body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus, also known as Pediculus humanus corporis) or the cootie is a hematophagic ectoparasite louse that infests humans...
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Lipoptena cervi (redirect from Pediculus capreoli)
Olfers, 1816 Ornithobia pallida Meigen, 1830 Ornithomyia nigrirostris Roser, 1840 Pediculus capreoli von Olfers, 1816 Pediculus cervi Linnaeus, 1758...
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human beings belong to two genera, Pediculus and Pthirus: head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis), body lice (Pediculus humanus humanus), and pubic lice (Pthirus...
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infested with sucking lice is called pediculosis. Pediculus humanus is divided into two subspecies, Pediculus humanus humanus, or the human body louse, sometimes...
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freshwater systems. "Polyphemus pediculus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24. "Polyphemus pediculus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24...
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0 m; maximum recorded depth is 129 m. Pusula pediculus (Linnaeus, 1758). WoRMS (2010). Pusula pediculus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register...
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[citation needed] Head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis) are not known to be vectors of diseases, unlike body lice (Pediculus humanus humanus), which are...
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approximately 3.3 million years ago. It is more distantly related to the genus Pediculus, which contains the human head and body lice and lice that affect chimpanzees...
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Pseudonebularia pediculus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails. This marine species...
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pedicularia Pediculus humanus – head louse Pediculus pubis – crab louse Pediculus ricinoides Pediculus vespertilionis – [suppressed] Pediculus suis – Haematopinus...
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abrasion or louse-bite wound with the faeces of an infected body louse (Pediculus humanus corporis). There have also been reports of an infected louse bite...
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(Cochliomyia): causes myiasis Head louse (Pediculus humanus capitis) causes pediculosis Body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus): causes pediculosis Crab...
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corporis or Vagabond's disease is a cutaneous condition caused by body lice (Pediculus humanus humanus) that lay their eggs on clothing and to a lesser extent...
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Vertebra (redirect from Pediculus arcus vertebrae)
Each vertebra (pl.: vertebrae) is an irregular bone with a complex structure composed of bone and some hyaline cartilage, that make up the vertebral column...
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capitis, is the infection of the head hair and scalp by the head louse (Pediculus humanus capitis). Itching from lice bites is common. During a person's...
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contracts epidemic typhus from the fecal matter of an infected louse (Pediculus humanus), the rickettsia can remain latent and reactivate months or years...
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Bacot A (1917). "Contributions to the bionomics of Pediculus humanus (vestimenti) and Pediculus capitis". Parasitology. 9 (2): 228–258. doi:10.1017/S0031182000006065...
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an alternative diminutive of 'pes', 'foot'. The regular diminutive 'pediculus' is also used for 'foot stalk'. Hyponastic response Pedicel Beentje, H...
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"Repellency of essential oils and their components to the human body louse, Pediculus humanus humanus". Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. 78 (3): 309–14...
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stem of the infructescence. The word "pedicel" is derived from the Latin pediculus, meaning "little foot". The stem or branch from the main stem of the inflorescence...
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crustaceous tribe of animals". He proposed to call the Dudley specimens Pediculus marinus major trilobos (large trilobed marine louse), a name which lasted...
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Genetic history of Africa (section Pediculus)
et al. (14 October 2016). "High Ancient Genetic Diversity of Human Lice, Pediculus humanus, from Israel Reveals New Insights into the Origin of Clade B Lice"...
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species, P. exiguus and P. pediculus, although allopatric speciation has resulted in a number of cryptic species of P. pediculus. Polyphemus exiguus inhabits...
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Genetic history of West Africa (section Pediculus)
et al. (October 14, 2016). "High Ancient Genetic Diversity of Human Lice, Pediculus humanus, from Israel Reveals New Insights into the Origin of Clade B Lice"...
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organism is Rickettsia prowazekii, transmitted by the human body louse (Pediculus humanus corporis). Untreated typhus cases have a fatality rate of approximately...
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location. Curiously, this pattern is not found in the human body louse (Pediculus humanus). Instead, this mitochondrial genome is arranged in 18 minicircular...
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date of the body louse's speciation from its parent, the human louse (Pediculus humanus), can have taken place no earlier than the earliest human adoption...
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