Key-catalogue of insects of importance in public health / by C.W. Stiles and Albert Hassall.

  • Charles Wardell Stiles
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[1928]
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Credit: Key-catalogue of insects of importance in public health / by C.W. Stiles and Albert Hassall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cervicalis0 Latr., 1804d, v. 8, 94, humanusr 1758 renamed: Pediculus. chmensis Fahrenholz, 1916, Zool. Anz., 87: Pediculus humanus.—China*.— So.8 angustus. *corporis de Geer, 1778a, 67: Pediculus; P. humanus.—Body or clothes louse; tailor’s louse.—Europe; America; etc.—Syn. vestimenti.—Bacillus pestis taken into intestine and passed in excreta to skin, Sw. & Otten, 1914; Pneumococcus, in intest, up to 48 hours, not to 60 hours, Widman. Staph¬ ylococcus, in intest, up to 48 hours, not to 60 hours, Widman. Transmits : Typhus, experimentally demonstrated; trench fever (Wohlhynica fever, febris quintana); [fl42d Borrelia duttoni, negative, Nicolle, 1913]; fl42d B. recurrentis, recurrent fever, Sergent & Foley, etc. [f453 Acanthocheilonema perstans, negative.] humanus1 Linn., 1758a, 610, originally included both capitis and vestimenti: Pediculus.—See next entry. humanus1 Linn., 1758a, 610; restricted later to capitis: Pediculus.—Head louse, reported as occasionally in ear.—Bacillus leprae, in lice from patients, fide McCoy & Clegg, 1912; B. typhi abdominalis, in lice from patients, fide Abe & Nakao, 1907; B. pestis. in lice from patients, fide Herzog, Raadt, 1915; Staphylococcus, of impetigoj, from sick child to healthy child, germs on legs and hair like pollen, Dewere, 1892; t212 Microbion typhi-exanthemica, of typhus, Wolbach, 1923, J. Med. Res., 232; [f212 Rickettsia prowazeki of] typhus, Goldb. & Anderson, 1912; [f212 R. pediculi of] quintana, Toepfer, 1916; fl42d Borrelia recurrentis, recurrent fever, Werner & Wiese, 1917; f453 Acantho¬ cheilonema perstans negative, Low, 1903.—Europe*; America; etc. maculatus Fahrenholz, 1916, Zool. Anz., 87: Pediculus capitis.—Negroes, Hottentots.—Kamerun*. marginatus Fahrenholz, 1915, Zeits. Morph, u. Anthr., v. 17, 599; 1916, Zool. Anz., 87; Pediculus humanus1.—Japan*.—So8, angustus. *nigritarum Fabr., 1805a, 340: Pediculus (Pediculus) humanus.—On negro. Africa; U. S. A.—Syn. nigrescens8 Olfers, 1816, 81. vestimenti Nitzsch, 1818a, 305: Pediculus.—So. corporis. 1107 (1106). Phthirus Leach, 1815, Edinb. Enc}rcl., v. 9 (1), 77, mt. inguinalis0 so. pubis.—The crab louse. [C. 25a, 348, 349; B. & M. 15a, 19.] Syn. Phthiriuse Denny, 1842, 9. inguinalis0 Leach, 1815, Edinb. Encycl., v. 9 (1), 77, pubis renamed: Phthirus. *pubis Linn., 1758a, 611 [Pediculus1]: Phthirus; Phthiriuse.—Pubis, eye¬ lashes, eyebrows, ear, hand. Eye troubles, dermatitis.—Europe*; America; etc.—Suspected as carrying: Bacillus tuberculosis' (cf. Imhoff); fl42d Borrelia recurrentis, relapsing fever, cf. Wiese. tabescentium8 Alt, 1818 or 1824, de phthiriasi, 8 [nv]: Pediculus l.—So. pubis fide Ferris, 1916, 138; or so. f 1106 vestimenti, fide Piaget, 1880a, 626. 1108 (1104). Haematopinidae Enderlein, 1904, Zool. Anz., 136.—[C. 25a, 349.] See fll09. 1109A (1109B; 1109C). Haematopinus Leach, 1815, Edinb. Encycl., v. 9 (1), [nv]; 1817, Zool. Misc., 64 [nv]. [spinulosus Burm., 1837, Gen. Ins., unpaged: Haematopinus; Pediculus1.—- Can transmit fl42d Borrelia duttoni and fl42d B. recurrentis from rat to rat, see Manteufel, 1908, and Neum., 1909. *suis Linn., 1758a, 611: Haematopinus; Pediculus1.—Hog louse.—From swine, temporary on Homo.—Cosmopolitan. 1109B (1109A). Haemodipsus Enderlein, 1904, Zool. Anz., v. 28 (4), Oct. 7, 139, 143, tsd. (1916) lyriocephalus. *ventricosus Denny, 1842a, 30-31, pi. 25, fig. 6 [Haematopinus1]: Haemo¬ dipsus.—Rabbit louse.—Can transmit tularaemia.