''Trichodectes'' is a genus of
louse
Louse (: lice) is the common name for any member of the infraorder Phthiraptera, which contains nearly 5,000 species of wingless parasitic insects. Phthiraptera was previously recognized as an order (biology), order, until a 2021 genetic stud ...
belonging to the family
Trichodectidae
Trichodectidae is a family of louse in the parvorder Trichodectera. Its species are parasites of mammals.
Classification
Trichodectidae was previously classified as belonging to Ischnocera, but phylogenetic studies had found that group to be pa ...
.
The genus was described in 1818 by Nitzsch.
The genus has
cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across most or all of the surface of the Earth, in appropriate habitats; most cosmopolitan species are known to be highly adaptable to a range of climatic and en ...
.
Species
* ''
Trichodectes baculus'' (Schömmer, 1913)
* ''
Trichodectes canis'' (De Geer, 1778)
* ''
Trichodectes carnivorus'' (Springholz-Schmidt, 1935)
* ''
Trichodectes emersoni'' (Hopkins, 1960)
* ''
Trichodectes ermineae'' (Hopkins, 1941)
* ''
Trichodectes euarctidos'' (Hopkins, 1954)
* ''
Trichodectes galictidis'' (Werneck, 1934)
* ''
Trichodectes kuntzi'' (Emerson, 1964)
* ''
Trichodectes melis'' (Fabricius, 1805)
* ''
Trichodectes mustelae'' (Schrank, 1803)
* ''
Trichodectes pinguis'' (Burmeister, 1838)
* ''
Trichodectes tigris'' (Ponton, 1870)
* ''
Trichodectes vosseleri'' (Stobbe, 1913)
References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q13654303
Lice