Trichodectidae

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

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

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