• Approximately 840 species of mammal are known to harbour Anoplura, and more are expected to be discovered.
  • "The sucking lice (Insecta, Anoplura) of the world: A taxonomic checklist with records of mammalian hosts and geographic distributions."
  • Sucking lice (Anoplura, formerly known as Siphunculata) have around 500 species and represent the smaller of the two traditional superfamilies of lice.
  • Phthiraptera (= Anoplura) are the sucking or true lice that are ectoparasitic on mammals (primates, ungulates, canines and rodents).
  • Sucking louse, (suborder Anoplura), any of some 500 species of small, wingless, flat lice (order Phthiraptera) that have piercing and sucking mouthparts and live on...
  • Anoplura. Anoplura is a term in entomology for an order of insects comprising the sucking lice. These insects have unarmed tails.
  • For additional information on Anoplura, please check out the following websites: http://tolweb.org/Anoplura.
  • Anoplura or siphunculata, sucking lice (nits, crabs, body louse), their natural history, taxonomy, physiology, and body pattern.