Neotrichodectes mephitidis (Packard)

Reeves, Will K., Durden, Lance A. & Wrenn, William J., 2004, Ectoparasitic chiggers (Acari: Trombiculidae, Leeuwenhoekiidae), lice (Phthiraptera), and Hemiptera (Cimicidae and Reduviidae) from South Carolina, U. S. A., Zootaxa 647, pp. 1-20 : 13

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.158298
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6269674
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C2738789-771A-EC19-6D3C-F9EDFB2F5376
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Neotrichodectes mephitidis (Packard)
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Anderson Co., Fants Grove, 20 February 2003, ex Mephitis mephitis (Schreber), coll. W.K. Reeves.

More than 80 lice were removed from a single skunk. This level of infestation was much greater than was reported from skunks in Connecticut (Durden & Richardson 2003). The consequence of heavy chewinglouse infestations on wild mammals is poorly known, but infestations have rarely been implicated to cause pathology (Price et al. 2003).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Phthiraptera
Family	Trichodectidae
Genus	Neotrichodectes

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