Pthirus pubis

Reeves, Will K., Durden, Lance A., Ritzi, Christopher M., Beckham, Katy R., Super, Paul E & Oconnor, Barry M., 2007, Ectoparasites and other ectosymbiotic arthropods of vertebrates in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA, Zootaxa 1392, pp. 31-68 : 35

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.273680
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6243887
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scientific name	Pthirus pubis
status

Treatment

Pthirus pubis (L.)—crab louse

Ex Homo sapiens (human): 1F, TN, Sevier Co., Sugarlands Visitor Center, 2003, L3098. The crab louse has a cosmopolitan distribution as an ectoparasite of humans ( Kim et al. 1986, Durden &

Musser 1994). The specimen listed above was presented by a Park visitor as something that had bitten her.

References

Kim, K. C., Pratt, H. D. & Stojanovich, C. J. (1986) The sucking lice of North America: an illustrated manual for identification. The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park. 241 pp.

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, 1 - 90.