Definition of Family Pediculidae

1. Noun. True lice: human lice and related forms.

Exact synonyms: Pediculidae
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Anoplura, Order Anoplura
Member holonyms: Genus Pediculus, Pediculus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Pediculidae

family Pandanaceae
family Pandionidae
family Panorpidae
family Papaveraceae
family Papilionacea
family Paradisaeidae
family Paridae
family Parkeriaceae
family Parmeliaceae
family Parulidae
family Patellidae
family Pectinidae
family Pedaliaceae
family Pediculidae (current term)
family Pelecanidae
family Pelecanoididae
family Pelobatidae
family Pempheridae
family Peneidae
family Pennatulidae
family Peramelidae
family Percidae
family Percophidae
family Peridiniidae
family Peripatidae
family Peripatopsidae
family Peronosporaceae
family Pertusariaceae

Literary usage of Family Pediculidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"Family. Pediculidae (Lice). The lower lip is transformed into a projecting rostrum provided with barbed hooklets in which the hollow extensile sucker ..."

2. A Laboratory Guide to the Study of Parasitology by William Brodbeck Herms (1913)
"family Pediculidae. Genus Pediculus, examples, P. capitis, the head louse of man, and P. vestimenti, the body louse of man. ..."

3. The Micrographic Dictionary: A Guide to the Examination and Investigation of by John William Griffith, Arthur Henfrey (1883)
"A genus of Anoplura, family Pediculidae. BIBL. Fries, Syst. Мус. iii. 492: Sum Feg. 474 ; Berk. Crypt. But. 327. Char. Legs of two kinds, anterior pair ..."

4. Diseases of the skin by Richard Lightburn Sutton (1917)
"... and the family Pediculidae. The three varieties which habitually attack human beings are known as the pediculus capitis, or head louse; the pediculus ..."

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