Sucking louse
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{{Taxobox
| name = Anoplura
| image = Pediculus humanus.JPG
| image_caption = ''Pediculus humanus''
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Arthropod]]a
| classis = [[Insecta]]
| ordo = [[Phthiraptera]]
| subordo = '''Anoplura'''
| subdivision_ranks = Families
| subdivision =
[[Echinophthiriidae]] (seal lice)<br>
[[Enderleinellidae]] <br>
[[Haematopinidae]] (ungulate lice)<br>
[[Hamophthiriidae]]<br>
[[Hoplopleuridae]] (armoured lice)<br>
[[Hybothiridae]] <br>
[[Linognathidae]] (pale lice)<br>
[[Microthoraciidae]] <br>
[[Neolinognathidae]]<br>
[[Pecaroecidae]]<br>
[[Pedicinidae]]<br>
[[Pediculidae]] (body lice)<br>
[[Phthiridae]] (pubic lice)<br>
[[Polyplacidae]] (spiny rat lice)<br>
[[Ratemiidae]]
}}
'''Sucking lice''' ('''Anoplura''') have around 500 [[species]] and represent the smaller of the two traditional suborders of [[lice]]. The Anoplura are all blood-feeding [[parasite|ectoparasites]] of [[mammal]]s. They can cause localised skin irritations and are [[vector (biology)|vector]]s of several blood-borne diseases.
Children appear particularly susceptible to attracting lice, possibly due to their fine hair.
At least three species of Anoplura are parasites of humans; the human condition of being infested with sucking lice is called [[pediculosis]]. ''Pediculus humanus'' is divided into two subspecies, ''Pediculus humanus humanus'', or the [[body louse]], sometimes nicknamed "the seam squirrel" for its habit of laying of eggs in the seams of clothing, and ''Pediculus humanus capitis'', or the [[head louse]]. ''Phthirus pubis'' (the [[pubic lice|pubic louse]]) is the cause of the condition known as [[pubic lice|crabs]].
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*See also[[Use of DNA in forensic entomology]]
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