Loose
| Phthiraptera | |
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| Licht micrograph o Fahrenholzia pinnata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Cless: | Insecta |
| Superorder: | Psocodea |
| Order: | Phthiraptera Haeckel, 1896 |
| Suborders | |
Loose (plural: lice) is the common name for members o the order Phthiraptera, which conteens nearly 5,000 species o weengless insect. Lice are obligate parasites, livin freemitly on wairm-bluidit hosts which include every species o bird an mammal, except for monotremes, pangolins, baukies an cetaceans. Lice are vectors o diseases such as typhus.