An order of small, wingless parasitic insects, commonly known as lice. The suborders include ANOPLURA (sucking lice); AMBLYCERA; ISCHNOCERA; and Rhynchophthirina (elephant and warthog lice).
    

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A Spanish family picking lice or fleas from each other's heads. Coloured etching, 1812.

Pubic louse, ventral view, SEM, colour- blue

Ox louse clinging to a hair - coloured SEM

Pubic louse, ventral view, SEM.

Public louse, 1st claw of 2nd leg, SEM.

Typhus prevention equipment: the Lelean sack disinfestor, used to disinfest clothing and kill lice carrying typhus. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).

Salmon sea louse mouth, fish parasite

Head louse clinging to strand of human hair, SEM

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M0011709: Woman picking lice or fleas out of a man's hair

A poetical epistle from a louse to Peter Pindar, Esq; or, the louse banished from court

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A poetical epistle from a louse to Peter Pindar, Esq; or, the louse banished from court