Pediculus

Pediculus
Head louse, Pediculus humanus capitis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Psocodea
Suborder: Troctomorpha
Infraorder: Phthiraptera
Parvorder: Anoplura
Family: Pediculidae
Leach, 1817
Genus: Pediculus
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

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Pediculus is a genus of sucking lice, the sole genus in the family Pediculidae. Pediculus species are ectoparasites of primates.

Species include:

Humans are the hosts of Pediculus humanus. Chimpanzees and bonobos host Pediculus shaeffi. Various New World monkeys in the families Cebidae and Atelidae host Pediculus mjobergi.

The three-gene cladogram (largely reproduced in a later phylogenomic analysis, which included fewer taxa of this genus) is:

Polyplax serrata

Pediculus humanus capitis

Pediculus humanus humanus

0.8

Pediculus schaeffi

5.9

Pthirus pubis

Pthirus gorillae

2.9
16.2

Pedicinus hamadryas

Pedicinus badii

Pedicinus pictus

4.3
17.2
27.4
47.6

Labels below nodes are estimated divergence times (Mya).

References

  1. ↑ "Pediculus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  2. ↑ "Pediculus". Phthiraptera.info. Archived from the original on 16 August 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  3. ↑ Light, JE; Smith, VS; Allen, JM; Durden, LA; Reed, DL (22 September 2010). "Evolutionary history of mammalian sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura)". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10 (1): 292. Bibcode:2010BMCEE..10..292L. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-292. PMC 2949877. PMID 20860811.
  4. ↑ de Moya, Robert S; Yoshizawa, Kazunori; Walden, Kimberly K O; Sweet, Andrew D; Dietrich, Christopher H; Kevin P, Johnson (2021-06-16). Buckley, Thomas (ed.). "Phylogenomics of Parasitic and Nonparasitic Lice (Insecta: Psocodea): Combining Sequence Data and Exploring Compositional Bias Solutions in Next Generation Data Sets". Systematic Biology. 70 (4): 719–738. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syaa075. ISSN 1063-5157. PMID 32979270.