Phthiraptera
Translingual
Pediculus humanus capitis (human head louse; suborder Anoplura)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek φθείρ (phtheír, “louse”) and ἄπτερος (ápteros, “wingless”), an alpha privative from πτερόν (pterón, “wing”).
Proper noun
Phthiraptera
- A taxonomic order within the class Insecta – the chewing and sucking lice or parasitic lice.
Hypernyms
- (order): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa - superphylum; Arthropoda - phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Metapterygota - clade; Neoptera - infraclass; Eumetabola, Paraneoptera - clades; Psocodea - superorder
Hyponyms
- (order): Amblycera, Anoplura, Ischnocera, Rhyncophthirina - suborders
See also
- Psocodea
References
Louse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Phthiraptera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Phthiraptera on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Phthiraptera at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Phthiraptera at Encyclopedia of Life