MALLOPHAGA
(chewing lice)

MALLOPHAGA (chewing lice) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

MALLOPHAGA (chewing lice) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
interactions		 No of
references
Brueelia marginata
a feather louse
Species 2 trophisms
Damalinia indica
a biting louse
Species 1 trophisms
Gliricola porceli
a louse
Species 1 trophisms
Gyropus ovalis
a louse
Species 2 trophisms
Sturniidoecus sturni
a feather louse
Species 2 trophisms
Trichodectes canis
Dog Louse
Species 3 trophisms
Taxonomic hierarchy:
SuborderMALLOPHAGA (chewing lice)
OrderPHTHIRAPTERA (sucking lice, louse)
Division Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
() Avery, R.A. 1974 Identification of Animal Parasites Hulton Group Keys, 182pp, Hulton Educational Publications Ltd.
Séguy, E. 1944 Insectes Ectoparasites (Mallophages, Anoplures, Siphonaptères) Faune de France, Faune No 43, 684pp, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Science Naturel

MALLOPHAGA (chewing lice) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Corbet, G.B. 1956 The Phoresy of Mallophaga on a Population of Ornithomya fringillina Ent. Mon. Mag. Vol 92.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to MALLOPHAGA (chewing lice):

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