anopluran

anopluran

English

Anoplurans (Pediculus humanus)

Etymology

Anoplura +‎ -n

Noun

anopluran (plural anoplurans)

1. Any louse of the suborder Anoplura, a sucking louse.
   • 1993, May Berenbaum, Ninety-nine More Maggots, Mites, and Munchers‎, page 226:

     Unlike the masticating mallophagans, anoplurans have mouthparts modified for piercing epidermal tissues and sucking up blood.

   • 2005, David Grimaldi, Evolution of the Insects, unnumbered page,

     Ungulates and squirrels (the latter in the family Sciuridae) are particularly heavily parasitized by anoplurans, and several small or even monotypic families of anoplurans parasitize phylogenetically isolated mammalian groups.

   • 2009, Dwight D. Bowman, Jay R. Georgi, Georgis' Parasitology for Veterinarians, page 34,

     The next simplest case involves one anopluran and one mallophagan species per host species (e.g., Haematopinus asini plus Domalinia equi on Equus caballus and Linognathus setosus plus Trichodectes canis on Canis familiaris). Cattle (Bos taurus) present a more complex case; they are infested by three anoplurans and one mallophagan, and attention to generic morphologic characteristics is required for their differentiation.

Synonyms

• (any species of Anoplura): sucking louse

Translations

any louse of the suborder Anoplura

Portuguese: anopluro m

See also

• mallophagan