Linognathus pedalis (Osborn, 1896)

Similar to Linognathus ovillus, Linognathus pedalis typically infests sheep and was regarded as having a cosmopolitan distribution by Durden & Musser (1994). Still, there are no records of this louse species from sheep or any other host from Malaysia (Mustaffa-Babjee 1969; Vivi-Susantie et al. 2020). Currently, information of pathogens transmitted by L. pedalis is scarce (Durden 2019). Hence, it is important that more studies of sucking lice on goats and sheep be conducted in Malaysia.