Lab Final Flashcards
Human body louse
Pediculus humanus
Human head louse
Pediculus capitus
Vector of epidemic typhus (Rickettsia prowazekii)
Body louse
Pediculus humanus
Human pubic louse
Looks like a crab
Pthirus pubis
Pig louse
Has a cone shaped head
Haematospinus suis
How do you tell chewing and sucking live apart?
Chewing lice have heads that are broader than their thorax while sucking lice have narrow pointed heads
Cat flea
Ctenocephalides felis
Dog flea
Ctenocephalides canis
Human flea
Pulex irritans
Northern rat flea/ bird flea
Nosopsyllus fasciatus
Which flea has no ctenidium (bristles)
Pulex irritans
Human flea
Which flea has only pronotal ctenidium
Nosopsyllus fasciatus
Northern rat flea
Bird flea
Which flea has the longest bristles
Ctenocephalides felis
Cat flea
Kissing bug
Triatoma infestans
Vector of Chagas’ disease
Triatoma infestans
Common bedbug
Cimex lectularis
Different characteristics for anopheles
Long palps
Male- palps clubbed at tip
Characteristics of Aedes
Short palps
Male- feathery palps
Pointed abdomen
Culex description
Short palps
Male- feathery palps
Rounded abdomen
Yellow fever
Aedes aegypti
Yellow fever started as
A disease of tree dwelling African monkeys
Dengue fever
Aedes aegypti
Malaria
Anopheles
West Nile
Culex
Encephalitis
Culex
Lone star tick
Amblyomma americanum
Dog tick
Dermecentor variabilis
Cattle tick
Boophilus annulatus
Brown dog tick
Rhipicephalus sanguineus