Oral fossa: in Mallophaga, a furrow lying in front of the mandibles. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Antennal appendage: in Mallophaga, a projecting process of the 1st or. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Hind-head: Mallophaga; that part of head behind mandibles and antennae. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Forehead: in Mallophaga, the head in front of the mandibles and antennae. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Lipoptera: = Mallophaga; q.v. Literate: ornamented with characters like letters. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Ocular fleck: in Mallophaga, a small, intensely black spot of pigment in the eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Antennary furrow: in Mallophaga, grooves on the under side of the head in which the antennae lie. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Paunch: a crop-like accessory pouch in some Mallophaga: any pouch-like appendage of the alimentary canal. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Ocular emargination: in Mallophaga, a lateral emargination of the head in which the eye is received posteriorly. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Mallophaga: wool-eaters: an ordinal term applied to biting lice: wingless: mandibulate; thoracic segments similar; no metamorphosis: = Lipoptera. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Platyptera: flat and broad-winged: an ordinal term applied to insects with four net-veined wings, secondaries longitudinally folded beneath primaries; mouth mandibulate; prothorax free; transformations complete: Psocidae, Termitidae, Perlidae and Mallophaga. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
For example, V.L. Kellogg (1913) points out that an identical species of the Mallophaga (Bird-lice) infests an Australian. From Wordnik.com. [The Life-Story of Insects] Reference
On the other hand Burmeister placed the Thysanura as a separate tribe between the Mallophaga (Bird Lice) and Orthoptera, and Gerstaecker placed them among the Orthoptera. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
In the biting lice (Mallophaga) the mouth is mandibulate; in the Thrips it is mandibulate, the jaws being free, and the maxillæ bearing palpi, while the Pediculi are suctorial, and the true bugs are eminently so. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
In its form the louse closely resembles the bed-bug, and the two groups of lice, the Pediculi and Mallophaga, should be considered as families of Hemiptera, though degraded and at the base of the hemipterous series. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
The remaining parasites belong to the skin-biting lice, or Mallophaga, and I will speak of the several genera referred to in their natural order, beginning with the highest form and that which is nearest allied to Pediculus. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
Campodea resembles the earliest larval form of Chloëon, as figured by Sir John Lubbock, even to the single jointed tarsus; and why these two Thysanurous families should be removed from the Neuroptera we are unable, at present, to understand, as to our mind they scarcely diverge from the Neuropterous type more than the Mallophaga, or biting lice, from the type of Hemiptera. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
Termitidae, Psocidae and Mallophaga. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Mallophaga, 108. From Wordnik.com. [The Life-Story of Insects] Reference
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