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chewing louse
noun
Any true louse that is not a sucking louse; a mallophagan.
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In 2005, a new species of chewing louse, Psittacobrosus bechsteini, was described based on a dead specimen discovered on a museum skin of the Cuban macaw.
Mites known to parasitize the Camas pocket gopher include Androlaelaps fahrenholzi and Echinonyssus, and the chewing louse Geomydoecus oregonus has also been reported.
Two species of chewing louse have been isolated and described from grey currawongs: (Menacanthus dennisi) from subspecies halmaturina on Kangaroo Island in South Australia, and Australophilopterus strepericus from subspecies arguta near Launceston in Tasmania.
Seven outgroup taxa, representing the chewing louse suborders Rhynchophthirina and Ischnocera, also were included in the analysis.
Four phthirapteran suborders are recognized: the chewing louse suborders Amblycera, Ischnocera, and Rhynchophthirina, and the sucking louse suborder Anoplura [ 1].
Recent phylogenetic analyses of lice suggest that the sucking lice (Suborder Anoplura), of which Pediculus is a representative, may be derived from within the largest of the three chewing louse suborders, the Ischnocera [ 28- 31].
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Probably all species of birds have chewing lice, and most mammals have either chewing or sucking lice (Anoplura) or both.
The chewing lice of birds feed on feathers, or on feathers, blood, and tissue fluids, or on fluids only.
It is probable that the chewing lice of mammals do not feed on wool or hairs but on skin debris, secretions, and perhaps sometimes blood and tissue fluids.
This ELISA was evaluated using sera from sheep infested with P. ovis (n = 58) and sheep (n = 433) with no P. ovis infestation as well as sheep infected with other parasites including gastrointestinal nematodes (GIN), or chewing lice.
Chewing lice include two species first identified on this swift.
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