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Taxon: Species Pediculus humanus Linnaeus, 1758 - human louse (insect)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Arthropoda - (Class) Insecta - (Order) Phthiraptera - (Family) Pediculidae

Original position

Pediculus (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758

Current position

Pediculus (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758

Ref: K.C. Kim, 1982: 409.

Historical positions

*Pediculus* (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: K.C. Kim, 1982: 408, 409.
*Pediculus* (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979: 591, fig. 25-27D.
*Pediculus* (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. Linnaeus, 1758: 610.

Number of Subtaxa

2025	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	2ss
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	2ss
1982	K.C. Kim: 409	2ss

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