LICE

Question 1

lice

Answer 1

Order Phthiraptera
Suborder Anoplura
Mallophaga (Ischnocera, Amblycera, Rhyncopthirina)

Question 2

Sucking Lice; piercing mouthparts with 3 stylets concealed within a narrow head.

Answer 2

Suborder Anopluran

Question 3

Biting/Chewing Lice; Mouthparts consist of stout mandibles on the ventral side of their broad heads

Answer 3

Suborder Ischnocera
Suborder Amblycera
Suborder Rhynchopthirina

Question 4

Exclusively ectoparasites of placental mammals; All claws are same size (w/ “thumb-like” projection)

Answer 4

Suborder Anoplura
“sucking lice”

Question 5

PS: folds of neck and jowl, ears, flanks, back
Host: pig

Answer 5

Haematopinus suis

Question 6

PS: head, neck, back, inner surface of upper legs
Host: horse

Answer 6

Haematopinus asini

Question 7

short-nosed cattle louse
Host: Cattle (Bos taurus)
PS: around ears, tail, horns, top of neck.

Answer 7

Haematopinus eurysternus

Question 8

long-nosed cattle louse

Answer 8

Linognathus vituli

Question 9

smallest sucking louse in cattle

Answer 9

Solenopotes capillatus
“little blue cattle louse”

Question 10

Characterized by having a broad head containing chewing mouthparts and weak legs: ectoparasites of birds and few mammals

Answer 10

Mallophaga group of biting/chewing lice

Question 11

Head is large and broad and abdomen is barrel-shaped: Mandibles bite vertically

Answer 11

Suborder Ischnocera

Question 12

Most common and destructive louse in poultry. (eats barbs and barbules)
PS: breast, thighs, and around vent.

Answer 12

Menacanthus stramineus
(chicken body louse / yellow body louse)
Anapluran lice
Suborder Amblycera

Question 13

One of the largest louse on poultry

Answer 13

Suborder Ischnocera
Gonoides gigas
“large body louse”

Question 14

warthog louse

Answer 14

Haematomyzus hopinski

Question 15

elephant louse

Answer 15

Haematomyzus elephantis

Question 16

how many tarsal claw per leg in Mammalian lice?

Answer 16

1 claw per leg

Question 17

How many tarsal claw per leg in avian lice?

Answer 17

2 tarsal claws per leg

Question 18

The only lice with tibial spur/pad

Answer 18

Anaplurans/ Sucking lice

Question 19

Rodent louse
Prominent antenna

Answer 19

Family Linognathidae
Polyplax spp.

Question 20

Very broad body (crab-like)
1st leg - small; 2nd & 3rd legs - large

Answer 20

Pthirus pubis

Question 21

Smallest anapluran lice
Black to blueish-grey in color

Answer 21

Solenopotes

Question 22

“Tail louse”
Host: Cattle (Bos taurus)
The long hair around the tail, but may also be found around eyes and ears

Answer 22

Haematopinus quadripertusus

Question 23

buffalo louse
Host: buffalo, yak, cattle
PS: around ears, tail, horns, top of neck

Answer 23

Haematopinus tuberculatus

Question 24

rat louse
Host: rat

Answer 24

Polyplax spinulosa