Bovicola (Bovicola) caprae (Gurlt 1843)
- Dataset
- Chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) associated with vertebrates in Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Phthiraptera
- family
- Trichodectidae
- genus
- Bovicola
- species
- Bovicola caprae
description
Notes: Records from Ovis orientalis aries, Canis lupus familiaris, Gallus gallus and Meleagris sp. are most likely the result of accidental contaminations, or phoretic transferrals by Melophagus ovinus (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) (Lozoya-Saldaña et al. 1986). Bovicola (Bovicola) caprae is exclusively parasitic on goats (Price et al. 2003).