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15 Cards in this Set
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Anoplura |
Bloodsucking lice; pincher size related to diameter of host's hair |
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Haematopinus spp. |
Cattle, horse, SWINE bloodsucking lice All claws equal size and abdomen heavily sclerotized |
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Pthirus pubis |
Human pubic bloodsucking lice Sexual contact and fomites Laundering helps |
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Pediculus humanus capitis |
Human head bloodsucking lice Transmitted by normal hair shedding |
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Pediculus humanus humanus |
Human body bloodsucking lice Hangs on to clothing and eggs in seams Most common when ppl cant bathe and change clothes Rickettsia prowazekii-causes epidmeic typhus |
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Mallophaga |
Chewing lice Birds and mammals More mobile |
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Damalinia spp. |
Ruminant chewing lice (goat) |
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Trichodectes spp. |
K9 chewing lice Intermediate host for Dipylidium |
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Felicola subrostratus |
Feline chewing lice Only lice found in cats |
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Ctenocephalides felis |
Conehead flea Cats, dogs, cattle, man Genal and pronatal combs Flea dirt |
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Echidnophaga gallinacea |
Sticktight flea of poultry |
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Xenopsylla |
Rat flea Spreads plague |
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Pulex irritans |
Human flea |
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Reduviids |
Assassin bugs |
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Cimex |
Bed bugs |
