Pediculus is a genus of sucking lice, the sole genus in the family Pediculidae. Pediculus species are ectoparasites of primates.
Species include:[1]
- Pediculus clavicornis Nitzsch, 1864
- Pediculus humanus Linnaeus, 1758
- Pediculus humanus humanus Linnaeus, 1758 – the body louse
- Pediculus humanus capitis De Geer, 1767 – the head louse
- Pediculus mjobergi Ferris, 1916
- Pediculus schaeffi Fahrenholz, 1910
Humans are the hosts of Pediculus humanus. Chimpanzees and bonobos host Pediculus shaeffi. Various New World monkeys in the families Cebidae and Atelidae host Pediculus mjobergi.[2]
The three-gene cladogram (largely reproduced in a later phylogenomic analysis, which included fewer taxa of this genus) is:[3][4]
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Labels below nodes are estimated divergence times (Mya).
References
- ^ “Pediculus”. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
- ^ “Pediculus”. Phthiraptera.info. Archived from the original on 16 August 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
- ^ Light, JE; Smith, VS; Allen, JM; Durden, LA; Reed, DL (22 September 2010). “Evolutionary history of mammalian sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura)”. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10 (1): 292. Bibcode:2010BMCEE..10..292L. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-292. PMC 2949877. PMID 20860811.
- ^ de Moya, Robert S; Yoshizawa, Kazunori; Walden, Kimberly K O; Sweet, Andrew D; Dietrich, Christopher H; Kevin P, Johnson (2021-06-16). Buckley, Thomas (ed.). “Phylogenomics of Parasitic and Nonparasitic Lice (Insecta: Psocodea): Combining Sequence Data and Exploring Compositional Bias Solutions in Next Generation Data Sets”. Systematic Biology. 70 (4): 719–738. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syaa075. ISSN 1063-5157. PMID 32979270.
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