mallophagan
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Etymology
[edit]From Mallophaga + -an.
Noun
[edit]mallophagan (plural mallophagans)
- A chewing louse, any louse of the now obsolete suborder Mallophaga, any true louse that is not a sucking louse.
- 1985, Olin Sewall Pettingill, Jr., Ornithology in Laboratory and Field, page 116:
- As a rule, mallophagans are host-specific, each species being restricted and adapted to a single bird species or groups of closely related bird species.
- 1993, May Berenbaum, Ninety-nine More Maggots, Mites, and Munchers, page 226:
- Most are associated with birds (although at least one hundred species deign to dine on mammalian body tissues); the majority of mallophagans on birds (and hence the majority of mallophagans in general) have a pair of well-developed claws on the tips of their tarsi.
- 2005, M. J. Lehane, The Biology of Blood-Sucking in Insects, page 8:
- While these mouthparts are not primarily designed to pierce skin some mallophagans do feed on blood. Menacanthus stramineus, a present-day mallophagan, feeds at the base of feathers or on the skin of the chicken.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]chewing louse — see chewing louse