Trichodectidae

Trichodectidae
Felicola sp. with egg
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Psocodea
Suborder:	Troctomorpha
Infraorder:	Phthiraptera
Parvorder:	Trichodectera
Family:	Trichodectidae Kellogg, 1896[1]
Type genus
Trichodectes Nitzsch, 1818

Trichodectidae is a family of louse in the parvorder Trichodectera. Its species are parasites of mammals.^[2]

Classification

Trichodectidae was previously classified as belonging to Ischnocera, but phylogenetic studies had found that group to be paraphyletic. In 2021, de Moya et al. proposed that Trichodectidae be split off from Ischnocera and to be put into a newly created grouping called Trichodectera.^[3]

Below is a cladogram showing the position of Trichodectidae within Phthiraptera:^[3]

Phthiraptera	Ischnocera Philopteridae Anoplura Rhynchophthirina Trichodectera Trichodectidae Amblycera

List of genera

The following 19 genera are recognized:^[4][5]

• Bovicola Ewing, 1929
• Cebidicola Bedford, 1936
• Damalinia Mjöberg, 1910
• Dasyonyx Bedford, 1932
• Eurytrichodectes Stobbe, 1913
• Eutrichophilus Mjöberg, 1910
• Felicola Ewing, 1929
• Geomydoecus Ewing, 1929
• Lutridia Kéler, 1938
• Neotrichodectes Ewing, 1929
• Paratrichodectes Lyal, 1985
• Procavicola Bedford, 1932
• Procaviphilus Bedford, 1932
• Protelicola Bedford, 1932
• Stachiella Kéler, 1938
• Thomomydoecus Price & Emerson, 1972
• Trichodectes Nitzsch, 1818
• Tricholipeurus Bedford, 1929
• Werneckodectes Conci, 1946

References

1. Kellogg, Vernon L. (1896). "New Mallophaga, I,—with special reference to a collection made from maritime birds of the Bay of Monterey, California". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Second Series. 6: 63.
2. Lyal, C. H. C. (1985). "A cladistic analysis and classification of trichodectid mammal lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera)". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology Series. 51 (3): 187–346.
3. de Moya, Robert S; Yoshizawa, Kazunori; Walden, Kimberly K O; Sweet, Andrew D; Dietrich, Christopher H; Kevin P, Johnson (2021-06-16). Buckley, Thomas (ed.). "Phylogenomics of Parasitic and Nonparasitic Lice (Insecta: Psocodea): Combining Sequence Data and Exploring Compositional Bias Solutions in Next Generation Data Sets". Systematic Biology. 70 (4): 719–738. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syaa075. ISSN 1063-5157. PMID 32979270.
4. Price, Roger D.; Hellenthal, Ronald A.; Palma, Ricardo L.; Johnson, Kevin P.; Clayton, Dale H. (2003). "Trichodectidae". The Chewing Lice: World Checklist and Biological Overview. Illinois Natural History Survey Special Publication. Vol. 24. pp. 252–275.
5. "Trichodectidae". Phthiraptera.info. Archived from the original on 24 September 2018. Retrieved 7 February 2018.