Pediculus humanus subsp. capitis de Geer 1778
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Pediculus humanus capitis de Geer, 1778
Pediculus (humanus capitis) cinereus de Geer, 1778: 67.
Records in Baltic States: Latvia (Grinbergs 1961b; 1980b).
Hosts: M. musculus (LV).
European distribution: Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom (Brinck 1950; Blagoveshchensky 1964; Wegner 1966; Piotrowski 1970; Büttiker & Mahnert 1978; Gratz 1997; Skirnisson 2001; Savona-Ventura 2002; Manilla 2003; O’Connor et al. 2005; Willems et al. 2005; Kurhanova 2006; Light et al. 2008; Vogels et al. 2012; Vas et al. 2012; Krčmar & Trilar 2017; Mihailov et al. 2019; Aalto-Korte et al. 2020; Fox et al. 2020).
Notes: The detection of P. humanus capitis on a small mammal was probably accidental, since this louse species is highly specific parasite of humans (Durden & Musser 1994).
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Chaetodactylidae
- Genus
- Pediculus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Sarcoptiformes
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- de Geer
- Species
- capitis
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pediculus humanus subsp. capitis Geer, 1778 sec. Kitrytė & Baltrūnaitė, 2023
References
- de Geer, C. (1778) Memoires pour Servir a l'Histoire des Insectes, t 7. De l'Imprimerie de Pierre Hesselberg, Stockholm, 950 pp.
- Grinbergs, A. (1961 b) Observations on ectoparasites of the house mouse in connection with investigations of natural nidi of diseases in Latvia. Latvijas Entomologs, 4, 30 - 38. [in Russian]
- Grinbergs, A. (1980 b) Review of the animal lice fauna of Latvia. Latvijas Entomologs, 23, 20 - 28. [in Latvian]
- Brinck, P. (1950) Svensk insektfauna 5. L ˆ ss, Anoplura. Entomologiska Foreningen, Stockholm, 71 pp.
- Blagoveshchensky, D. I. (1964) Order Anoplura (Siphunculata) - Lice. In: Bei-Bienko, G. J. (ed.) Key of Insects of the European Part of U. S. S. R. Volume I. Nauka, Moscow, pp. 324 - 334. [in Russian]
- Wegner, Z. (1966) Katalog Fauny Polski. Wszy - Anoplura. Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa. 36 pp.
- Piotrowski, F. (1970) Lice (Phthiraptera) of mammals in Hungary. Parasitologia Hungarica, 3, 97 - 118.
- Buttiker, W. & Mahnert, V. (1978) Vorlaufige Liste des Anoplura (Insecta) der Schweiz. Bulletin de la Societe Entemologique Suisse, 51, 299 - 306.
- Gratz, N. G. (1997) Human Lice. Their Prevalence, Control and Resistance to Insecticides. A Review 1985 - 1997. World Health Organization, Geneva, 61 pp.
- Skirnisson, K. (2001) On specific and non-specific ectoparasites of humans in Iceland. Bulletin of the Scandinavian Society for Parasitology, 11 (1 - 2), 13.
- Savona-Ventura, C. (2002) Parasites and pests of medical significance in the Maltese environment - a historical review of culprit species. Central Mediterranean Naturalist, 3 (4), 149 - 152.
- Manilla, G. (2003) Checklist delle specie della fauna Italiana. Fascicolo 39. Phthiraptera. Comitato Scientifico per la Fauna d'Italia, Bologna. 11 pp.
- O'Connor, J. P., Sleeman, D. P. & Butler, F. T. (2005) A review of the Irish Anoplura (Insecta: Phthiraptera). Irish Naturalists' Journal, 28 (2), 62 - 67.
- Willems, S., Lapeere, H., Haedens, N., Pasteels, I., Naeyaert, J. M. & de Maeseneer, J. (2005) The importance of socio-economic status and individual characteristics on the prevalence of head lice in schoolchildren. European Journal of Dermatology, 15 (5), 387 - 392.
- Kurhanova, L. (2006) Lice infestation and lice control remedies in the Ukraine. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1078, 357 - 360. https: // doi. org / 10.1196 / annals. 1374.070
- Light, J. E., Allen, J. M., Long, L. M., Carter, T. E., Barrow, L., Suren, G., Raoult, D. & Reed, D. L. (2008) Geographic distributions and origins of human head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis) based on mitochondrial data. Journal of Parasitology, 94 (6), 1275 - 1281. https: // doi. org / 10.1645 / GE- 1618.1
- Vogels, Ch. B. F., Dam-Deisz, W. D. C., Reusken, Ch. B. E. M., Sprong, H., Beaujean, D., Tijsse-Klasen, E. & Braks, M. A. H. (2012) Is resistance lousing things up in The Netherlands? Proceedings of the Netherlands Entomological Society Meeting, 23, 49 - 61.
- Vas, Z., Rekasi, J. & Rozsa, L. (2012) A checklist of lice of Hungary (Insecta: Phthiraptera). Annales Historico - Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 104, 1 - 105.
- Krcmar, S. & Trilar, T. (2017) The blood sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura) of Croatia: a review and new data. Turkish Journal of Zoology, 41, 329 - 334. https: // doi. org / 10.3906 / zoo- 1510 - 46
- Mihailov, I., Bacal, S., Elisovetcaia, D., Zugulea, C., Sulesco, T., Neculiseanu, Z., Mocreac, N., Busmachiu, G., Calestru, L. & Baban, E. (2019) Registrul national al celor mai periculoase specii de insecte din fauna Republicii Moldova. Buletinul Academiei de Stiinte a Moldovei. Stiintele Vietii, 3 (339), 25 - 46.
- Aalto-Korte, K., Koskela, K. & Pesonen, M. (2020) Allergic contact dermatitis and other occupational skin diseases in health care workers in the Finnish Register of Occupational Diseases in 2005 - 2016. Contact Dermatitis, 84 (4), 217 - 223. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / cod. 13753
- Fox, K., Larkin, K. & Sanchez, A. (2020) Global trends in genetic markers of Pediculus humanus capitis resistance mechanisms. Current Tropical Medicine Reports, 7, 65 - 73. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 40475 - 020 - 00204 - 3
- Durden, L. A. & Musser, G. G. (1994) The sucking lice (Insecta, Anoplura) of the world: a taxonomic checklist with records of mammalian hosts and geographical distributions. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 218, 90 pp.