Misplaced Pages

Ricinus (insect)

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Genus of lice For the plant genus Ricinus (Euphorbiaceae) including Ricinus communis, the castorbean, see Ricinus.

Ricinus
Ricinus ivanovi, Ricinus tugarinovi and Ricinus vaderi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Psocodea
Family: Ricinidae
Genus: Ricinus
De Geer, 1778

Ricinus is a genus of chewing lice which parasitise birds. It is the largest-bodied genus of chewing lice found parasitizing Passeriformes.

References

  1. Charles de Geer, 1752-1778 Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes, digital facsimile at the Gallica website.
  2. Valan, Miroslav; Sychra, Oldrich; Literak, Ivan (2016). "Chewing lice of genus Ricinus (Phthiraptera, Ricinidae) deposited at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia, with description of a new species". Parasite. 23: 7. doi:10.1051/parasite/2016007. ISSN 1776-1042. PMC 4763114. PMID 26902646. Open access icon
  3. Bernard C. Nelson (1972): A Revision of the New World Species of Ricinus (Mallophaga). Occurring on Passeriformes (Aves), University of California Publications in Entomology Volume 68, University of California Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles, ISBN 0-520-09412-3 PDF Archived 2016-02-08 at the Wayback Machine Open access icon
Taxon identifiers
Ricinus


Stub icon

This parasitic animal-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Stub icon

This louse-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: