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Pediculus humanus (body louse; head louse)

Wikipedia Abstract

Pediculus humanus is a species of louse that infects humans. It comprises two subspecies: \n* Pediculus humanus humanus Linnaeus, 1758 – the body louse \n* Pediculus humanus capitis De Geer, 1767 – the head louse
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Infraspecies

Pediculus humanus capitis
Pediculus humanus corporis
Pediculus humanus humanus (body louse)

Attributes

Diet [1]  Carnivore

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Pen Llyn a`r Sarnau/ Lleyn Peninsula and the Sarnau 360832 Wales, United Kingdom

Providers

Parasite of 
Homo sapiens (man)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0