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Pediculus humanus Linnaeus, 1758

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema naturae. I, lice:610–614.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Psocodea
family
Pediculidae
genus
Pediculus
species
Pediculus humanus

Name

Homonyms
Pediculus humanus Linnaeus, 1758
Pediculus humanus D
Pediculus humanus B
Pediculus humanus A
Common names
Body Louse in English
Body Louse in English
Body louse in English
Cootie in English
Gray Back in English
Head Louse in English
Hoofdluis in Dutch
Human Louse in English
Kleiderlaus in German
Kleiderlaus in German
Menneskelus in Danish
Menneskelus in Danish
Menschenlaus in German
Pidocchio dell'uomo in Italian
Piojo humano in Spanish
Pioyu humanu in language.
Pou de l'homme in French
Pou, Pou de tête, Pou de corps in French
Poux in French
Poux piqueurs in French
Wesz ludzka in Polish
body louse in English
body louse in English
head louse in English
head louse in English
human louse in English
huvudlus in Swedish
klädeslus in Swedish
klädlus in Swedish
louse in English
människolus in Swedish
piojo in Spanish
piojo humano in Spanish
piolho in Portuguese
piolho in Portuguese
piolho humano in Portuguese
vaatetäi in Finnish
vaatetäi in Finnish
veš šatní in Czech
človeška uš in Slovenian
İnsan Biti in Turkish
Человеческая вошь in Russian
قمل الإنسان in Arabic
เหามนุษย์ in Thai
ヒトジラミ in Japanese
人蝨 in Chinese
이 in Korean
människolus in Swedish
huvudlus in Swedish
klädeslus in Swedish

Bibliographic References

  1. Bacot, A. (08/1917) A simple means of ascertaining if a sterilizing hut is hot enough to destroy lice and nits in clothing or blankets http://phthiraptera.info/node/60966
  2. Boutellis, Bitam, Fekir, Mana & Raoult. 2015. Evidence that clade A and clade B head lice live in sympatry and recombine in Algeria. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 29(1):94-98
  3. Didier Raoult,BOUTELLIS, A.,Abi-Rached, Laurent (Jan-04-2014) The origin and distribution of human lice in the world
  4. Durden & Musser (1994) The sucking lice (Insecta, Anoplura) of the world: A taxonomic checklist with records of mammalian hosts and geographical distributions
  5. Durden, Lance A., and Guy G. Musser, 1994: The sucking lice (Insecta, Anoplura) of the world: a taxonomic checklist with records of mammalian hosts and geographical distributions. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 218. 90.
  6. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Direction 64 Addition to the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology (a) of the specific names of nineteen species belonging to the class Insecta, each of which is the type species of a genus, the name of which was placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology in the period up to the end of 1936 and (B) of the specific names of three species belonging to the same class which are currently treated as senior Subjective synonyms of the names of such species.Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1E, 61-74 (1957)
  7. Landin (1967) Insekter 1
  8. Leo, Campbell, Yang, Mumcuoglu & Barker (2002) Evidence from mitochondrial DNA that the head lice and the body lice of humans (Phthiraptera: Pediculidae) are conspecific
  9. Leo, N. P., N. J. H. Campbell, X. Yang, K. Mumcuoglu, and S. C. Barker, 2002: Evidence from Mitochondrial DNA That Head Lice and Body Lice of Humans (Phthiraptera: Pediculidae) are Conspecific. Journal of Medical Entomology, vol. 49, no. 4. 662-666.
  10. Light, Smith, Allen, Durden & Reed (2010) Evolutionary history of mammalian sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura)
  11. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema naturae. Editio Decima, Reformata. Impensis Direct, L. Salvii, Holmiae. I:610
  12. Nishida (2002), http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pdf/tr22.pdf
  13. Stephen C. Barker,Renfu Shao (Jan-02-2011) Chimeric mitochondrial minichromosomes of the human body louse, <i>Pediculus humanus</i>: Evidence for homologous and non-homologous recombination http://phthiraptera.info/node/68760
  14. de Jong (2013) Fauna Europaea - all European animal species on the web: version 2.6.2
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