''Pediculus'' is a
genus
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of
sucking lice, the
sole genus in the
family
Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ...
Pediculidae. ''Pediculus'' species are
ectoparasite
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has ...
s of primates.
Species include:
[
*'']Pediculus clavicornis
''Pediculus'' is a genus of sucking lice, the sole genus in the family Pediculidae. ''Pediculus'' species are ectoparasites of primates.
Species include:
*'' Pediculus clavicornis'' Nitzsch, 1864
*'' Pediculus humanus'' Linnaeus, 1758
**''Pedi ...
'' Nitzsch, 1864
*''Pediculus humanus
''Pediculus humanus'' is a species of louse that infects humans. It comprises two subspecies:
*''Pediculus humanus humanus'' Linnaeus, 1758 – body louse
*''Pediculus humanus capitis'' De Geer, 1767 – head louse
The head louse (''Pediculu ...
'' Linnaeus, 1758
**''Pediculus humanus humanus
The body louse (''Pediculus humanus humanus'', also known as ''Pediculus humanus corporis'') is a hematophagic ectoparasite louse that infests humans. It is one of three lice which infest humans, the other two being the head louse, and the ...
'' Linnaeus, 1758 – the body louse
**''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 human scalp and feeding exclusively on human blood. Humans are the only known hosts of t ...
'' De Geer, 1767 – the head louse
*''Pediculus mjobergi
''Pediculus'' is a genus of sucking lice, the sole genus in the family Pediculidae. ''Pediculus'' species are ectoparasites of primates.
Species include:
*'' Pediculus clavicornis'' Nitzsch, 1864
*'' Pediculus humanus'' Linnaeus, 1758
**'' Ped ...
'' Ferris, 1916
*''Pediculus schaeffi
''Pediculus'' is a genus of sucking lice, the sole genus in the family Pediculidae. ''Pediculus'' species are ectoparasites of primates.
Species include:
*'' Pediculus clavicornis'' Nitzsch, 1864
*'' Pediculus humanus'' Linnaeus, 1758
**'' Ped ...
'' Fahrenholz, 1910
Humans are the hosts of ''Pediculus humanus''. Chimpanzee
The chimpanzee (''Pan troglodytes''), also known as simply the chimp, is a species of great ape native to the forest and savannah of tropical Africa. It has four confirmed subspecies and a fifth proposed subspecies. When its close relative th ...
s and bonobo
The bonobo (; ''Pan paniscus''), also historically called the pygmy chimpanzee and less often the dwarf chimpanzee or gracile chimpanzee, is an endangered great ape and one of the two species making up the genus '' Pan,'' the other being the comm ...
s host ''Pediculus shaeffi''. Various New World monkeys in the families Cebidae and Atelidae
The Atelidae are one of the five family (biology), families of New World monkeys now recognised. It was formerly included in the family Cebidae. Atelids are generally larger monkeys; the family includes the howler monkey, howler, spider monkey, ...
host ''Pediculus mjobergi''.[
]
References
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