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<div>{{Short description|Species of louse}}<br />
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| image = Male human head louse.jpg<br />
| image_caption = [[Head louse]], ''P.&nbsp;humanus capitis''<br />
| genus = Pediculus<br />
| species = humanus<br />
| authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]]<br />
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'''''Pediculus humanus''''' is a species of [[louse]] that infests [[human]]s. It comprises two [[subspecies]]:<ref>{{cite book |author=William H. Robinson |year=2005 |title=Handbook of Urban Insects and Arachnids |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-0-521-81253-5 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aluUgDVYJ8wC&pg=PA360 |pages=359–364 |chapter=Phthiraptera}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor=Gary Mullen, Gary Richard Mullen & Lance Durden |year=2009 |title=Medical and Veterinary Entomology |edition=2nd |publisher=[[Academic Press]] |isbn=978-0-12-372500-4 |chapter=Lice (Phthiraptera) |pages=56–79 |author=Lance A. Durden & John E. Lloyd |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6R1v9o-uaI4C&pg=PA63}}</ref><br />
*''Pediculus humanus humanus'' <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small> – [[body louse]]<br />
*''Pediculus humanus capitis'' <small>[[Charles De Geer|De Geer]], 1767</small> – [[head louse]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
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[[Category:Insects described in 1758]]<br />
[[Category:Parasitic arthropods of humans]]<br />
[[Category:Animal taxa named by Carl Linnaeus]]<br />
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