2. Louse phylogeny four years on…
Book lice Lice
(Psocoptera) (Phthiraptera)
Chewing Lice Sucking Lice
• 40+ phylogenies! “Mallophaga” (Anoplura)
• Now cover 80% of louse genera
• Mix of molecules morphology
[ Liposcelis
• Beginning to reconcile differences sp.] Amblycera Ischnocera RhynchophthirinaAnoplura
RhynchophthirinaAnoplura
• Still a long way to go!
• Some of the biggest studies
unpublished