Mallophaga

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• However, as mentioned by Clay ( lQ57), the evidence of relationship provided by one genus of Mallophaga is less convincing than if more genera were involved.
• 98(2) March 2003 DISCUSSION Currently, the Order Mallophaga is composed of approximately 3,000 species grouped in 10 families.
• However, because other phylogenetic analyses did not reach the same conclusion (Kim & Ludwig 1978, Kim 1988), Mallophaga is here considered as an insect order.
• The entire life of the Mallophaga is spent on the body of the host.
• The old taxon Mallophaga is paraphyletic and now recognized as three suborders: Ischnocera, Amblycera and Rhyncophtherina.

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