Colpocephalum
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Colpocephalum is a genus of chewing louse.[8] Christian Ludwig Nitzsch named the genus in 1818. The Plenary Powers of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature selected Colpocephalum zebra Burmeister, 1838 as its type species in the 1950s. There are approximately 135 species in this genus, and they are ectoparasites of birds in at least a dozen different orders.
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Colpocephalum | |
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C. scopinum (2 ♂; 4 ♀) | |
C. fregili (♀; ♂) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Psocodea |
Family: | Menoponidae |
Genus: | Colpocephalum Nitzsch, 1818[1] |
Type species | |
Colpocephalum zebra[2] Burmeister, 1838[3] | |
Synonyms[4]: 16 | |
And 19 more:[8]
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