Pediculus humanus capitis de Geer, 1778

Kitrytė, Neringa & Baltrūnaitė, Laima, 2023, Ectoparasitic mites, ticks (Acari: Trombidiformes, Mesostigmata, Ixodida) and insects (Insecta: Psocodea, Siphonaptera) of ground-dwelling small mammals in the Baltic States. An annotated checklist, Zootaxa 5353 (1), pp. 1-46 : 19

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).