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Definition of Order Anoplura
1. Noun. Sucking lice.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Class Hexapoda, Class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta
Member holonyms: Louse, Sucking Louse, Family Pediculidae, Pediculidae, Family Phthiriidae, Phthiriidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Anoplura
Literary usage of Order Anoplura
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Order: Anoplura. Piercing jaws modified and reduced, a tubular, protrusible
sucking- trunk being developed; mouth with hooks. Wingless, parasitic form». ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Order: Anoplura. Piercing jaws modified and reduced, a tubular, protrusible
sucking- trunk being developed; mouth with hooks. Wingless, parasitic forms. ..."
3. Memoirs of Hugh Edwin Strickland by Hugh Edwin Strickland, William Jardine (1858)
"The parasitic insects of the order Anoplura, which abound on almost every species
of bird, have been till recently most unduly neglected, but that able ..."
4. The Entomologist's Text Book: An Introduction to the Natural History by John Obadiah Westwood (1838)
"We prefer, however, retaining these insects in a single order (Anoplura), on
account of their general similarity in structure, as well as in their parasitic ..."
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