Pediculus humanus capitis de Geer, 1778
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SUBSPECIES
- Published in
- de Geer, C. (1778) Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes. In Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes.: Vol. 7 vols (1752-1778). Hesselberg, Stockholm.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Psocodea
- family
- Pediculidae
- genus
- Pediculus
- species
- Pediculus humanus
Name
- Synonyms
- Pediculus capitis DeGeer, 1778
- Homonyms
- Pediculus humanus capitis de Geer, 1778
- Common names
- Hovedlus in Danish
- Pou de tête in French
- head louse in English
- head louse in English
- piojo de la cabeza in Spanish
- piojo humano de la cabeza in Spanish
- piolho-da-cabeça in Portuguese
- piolho-do-couro-cabeludo in Portuguese
- pou de l'homme in French
- pou de tête in French
- Hoofdluis in Dutch
- hodelus in Norwegian Bokmål
- hovudlus in Nynorsk, Norwegian
Bibliographic References
- Burmeister. 1834. Rhyngota seu Hemiptera. Nova Acta K. Leop.-Carol. dt. Akad. 16:285-308
- Didier Raoult,BOUTELLIS, A.,BITAM, I.,FEKIR, K.,MANA, N. (Jan-03-2015) Evidence that clade A and clade B head lice live in sympatry and recombine in Algeria
- Durden & 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 218:50
- Kosta Y. Mumcuoglu (11/2012) Is the Head Louse, <i>Pediculus humanus capitis</i> vector of human diseases? http://phthiraptera.info/node/68816
- Kosta Y. Mumcuoglu (2008) The louse comb: past and present http://phthiraptera.info/node/61014
- Kosta Y. Mumcuoglu,Danilevich, M,Gilead, L (2008) Physician’s knowledge in Israel on the biology and control of head lice (in Hebrew). http://phthiraptera.info/node/61013
- Kosta Y. Mumcuoglu,Gunneweg,J.: A head louse egg, <i>Pediculus humanus capitis</i> found in a louse comb excavated in The Christmas Cave, which dates to the 1st c. B.C. and A.D. http://phthiraptera.info/node/61643
- Kosta Y. Mumcuoglu,Hadas, G. (2011) Head louse (Pediculus humanus capitis) remains in a louse comb from the Roman period excavated in the Dead Sea area of Israel. http://phthiraptera.info/node/61639
- Kosta Y. Mumcuoglu,Ingber,A.,Gilead, L: New Insights in pediculosis and scabies
- Kosta Y. Mumcuoglu,Ozcelik,S.,Degerli, S.,Malatyali, E.,Celiksoz, A.: The prevalence of Pediculus humanus capitis and the coexistence of intestinal parasites among young children in boarding schools in Sivas, Turkey.
- Kosta Y. Mumcuoglu,Ozkan, O.,Sikar Akturk, A.,Mert, K,Bilen, N (2012) Difficulties experienced by families following unsuccessful treatment of pediculosis capitis: The Mothers’ perspective http://phthiraptera.info/node/61641
- 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.
- Palma. 2017. Phthiraptera (Insecta) A catalogue of parasitic lice from New Zealand. Fauna of New Zealand 76:239
- Stephen C. Barker,Kosta Y. Mumcuoglu,Burgess,Ian F.,Meinking,Terri A.: International guidelines for clinical trials with pediculicides
- de Geer. 1778. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes., Hesselberg, Stockholm 7 vols (1752-1778)