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Definition of Family Pediculidae
1. Noun. True lice: human lice and related forms.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Anoplura, Order Anoplura
Member holonyms: Genus Pediculus, Pediculus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Pediculidae
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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