anoplura

The following 15 families are generally recognized in the Anoplura:

Like other members of Anoplura, head lice mouth parts are highly adapted for piercing skin and sucking blood.

As is typical in Anoplura, these legs are short and terminate with a single claw and opposing "thumb".

The Anoplura are all blood-feeding ectoparasites of mammals.

The head is often broader and more rounder anteriorly than of Anoplura but this morphology difference is not reliable.

The Anoplura (sucking lice) parasitize only mammals.

Amblycera have chewing mouthparts, and Anoplura have true sucking mouthparts with stylets.

'Sucking lice' ('Anoplura') have around 500 species and represent the smaller of the two traditional suborders of lice.

At least three species or subspecies of Anoplura are parasites of humans; the human condition of being infested with sucking lice is called pediculosis.

These sucking lice are members of a larger Suborder Anoplura which also includes the species of lice most commonly infesting humans.

Earlier all chewing lice were considered to form the paraphyletic order Mallophaga while the sucking lice were thought to consider the order Anoplura.

The recent molecular finding that the traditional louse orders Mallophaga and Anoplura are derived from within Psocoptera has led to the new taxon Psocodea.

Eyes are present in all species within 'Pediculidae' (the family of which the head louse is a member), but are reduced or absent in most other members of the Anoplura suborder.

Contribucio'n al conocimiento de Eulinognathus americanus Ewing , 1923 y E. torquatus Castro, 1982 (Phthiraptera, Anoplura, Polyplacidae).

The pubic or 'crab' louse is one of three members of the family Pediculidae, a sub-group of the Anoplura or sucking lice, to be of clinical interest to men.

William Elford Leach founded the orders Phasmida, Anoplura, Thysanura and Rhaphidides; the hemipterous families Pentatomidae, Coreidae, Belostomidae; the dipterous family Tipulidae and the hymenopterous family Chrysididae and published the first bibliography of entomology in Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclopedia.