chewing lice
Mallophaga latin

Chewing lice include two species first identified on this swift.

A number of chewing lice occupy different niches on the house sparrow's body.

Evidence suggests that a close relationship has existed between pocket gophers and chewing lice for significant periods of time.

Menacanthus is a genus of chewing lice which parasitise birds.

Saemundssonia is a genus of chewing lice belonging to the family Philopteridae.

Birds with chewing lice or avian malaria are less likely than healthy males to be chosen as mates.

Some species of chewing lice house symbiotic bacteria in bacteriocytes in their bodies.

The Amblycera are a large suborder of chewing lice, parasitic on both birds and mammals.

This pattern is also found in other sucking lice, but not in chewing lice.

External parasites include chewing lice and feather mites.

It is labeled as effective against fleas, ticks, chewing lice, mosquitoes, and biting flies.

The Laemobothriidae are a family of a larger group Amblycera of the chewing lice.

The Philopteridae are a family of Ischnocera, chewing lice mostly parasitic on birds.

Trichodectes canis is a louse of the suborder Mallophaga, or chewing lice.

These comparisons at the family and order level suggest that the chewing lice originated on an ancestral artiodactyl, probably an ancestor of the bovids.

One species of chewing lice, Australophilopterus curviconus, has been recovered and described from a black currawong near Launceston.

Mallophaga literally means 'wool eating' and the Amblycera and Ischnocera are known as chewing lice.

Other recorded parasites of the russet sparrow include Protocalliphora blowflies, and Menacanthus chewing lice.

Penguins are parasitised by 15 species of chewing lice in two genera, Austrogoniodes and the monotypic Nesiotinus.

Chewing lice such as Colpocephalum zebra tend to be found on the wings, and Neophilopterus incompletus elsewhere on the body.

Most species of lice are host specific, with the sucking lice being more host specific than chewing lice.

Amendments and additions to the 1982 list of chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from birds in New Zealand.

As opposed to the paraphyletic chewing lice, which are now divided among three suborders, the sucking lice are monophyletic.

Chewing lice feed on feathers, hair and skin surface detritus, whereas sucking lice feed exclusively on blood.

The order has traditionally been divided into two suborders; the sucking lice (Anoplura) and chewing lice (Mallophaga).

There are approximately 3000 species of Mallophaga in the world.

The prevalence of Mallophaga was similar to that recorded by other workers.

Mallophaga may also use phoresis in order to spread to a new host even if the present one is still alive.

They are known as Mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals.

This makes B. bovis a member of the sub-order Mallophaga.

Mallophaga have mandibulate mouthparts which are located on the ventral side of their head.

It is a chewing louse (Mallophaga), which feeds on the feathers and skin debris of birds.

All known publications on Mallophaga, containing taxonomic information were reviewed and the species were placed in a modern classification.

Mallophaga are often adapted to live on a specific part of their host and typically spend their entire lives on a single host.

Trichodectes canis is a louse of the suborder Mallophaga, or chewing lice.

He communicated with global Mallophaga systematists and published numerous papers in both Spanish and English.

According to K. C. Emerson, this work "was a historical milestone in Mallophaga taxonomy."

His first opportunity to conduct research came from Dr. Kellogg, who set him to work on the biting lice (Mallophaga).

Records of a collection of Mallophaga and Anoplura from Nicaraguan mammals (subscription required).

Mallophaga literally means 'wool eating' and the Amblycera and Ischnocera are known as chewing lice.

He graduated in 1923 as a Bachelor of Arts in medical entomology with specialisation in the Mallophaga.

Mallophaga from birds of the Ponapé I. (Carolines) and the Palau Is.

A bird with a deformed bill was heavily infested with Mallophaga lice, presumably due to its inability to remove vermin.

Subspecies in two sympatric North American hosts are described, and transmission by lice (Mallophaga:

A list of the biting lice (Mallophaga) taken from birds and mammals of North America (Gov't print.

The order has traditionally been divided into two suborders; the sucking lice (Anoplura) and chewing lice (Mallophaga).

He attended the University of Nebraska, where he studied Mallophaga (bird lice) under Lawrence Bruner.

She became the world's expert on Mallophaga, or chewing lice; however, her work is cast into question by her probable role in Meinertzhagen's many scientific frauds.

Two species of the louse suborder Mallophaga, Plegadiphilus eudocimus and Ardeicola robusta, also parasitise the bird.

Mallophaga is a suborder of lice, known as chewing lice, biting lice or bird lice, containing more than 3000 species.