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== Body Design == | == Body Design == | ||
[[File:Body design of louse.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Ventral view of male louse]] | [[File:Body design of louse.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Ventral view of male louse]] | ||
There are many different types of lice but they all have common body design. | There are many different types of lice but they all have common body design. Usually it's the size of a pinhead and it's oval shaped with 3 legs and claws each side of it's body.<ref>Brannon, Heather. [http://dermatology.about.com/cs/headlice/a/headlice.htm Head lice] ''About.com.Dermatology''. Web. Last Updated April 09 2008 .</ref> | ||
All the adult lice have head, thorax, and abdomen. | All the adult lice have a head, thorax, and abdomen. It's head has anterior piercing mouthpart that can pierce through the scalp or skin of it's prey.<ref>[http://teacherweb.com/CAD/EcoleStMaloSchool/EcoleStMaloSchool/HeadLice---Life-Cycle.pdf Head Lice] ''Head Lice Life Cycle and Characteristics''. Web. Date of publication January 2008 . Unkown Author</ref> | ||
Lice has a flat body which can help lice to stick to it's prey's feather or hair. The color of lice is depends on it's prey's body color. which means animals with white hair | Lice has a flat body which can help lice to stick to it's prey's feather or hair. The color of lice is depends on it's prey's body color. which means that all animals with white hair havs white lice, and those with black hair almost always has black lice. | ||
The blood sucking lice has three stylets within it's head. It has small proboscis with the toothlike processes which is for holding the prey when it's sucking the blood out of it's prey but the other lice has little different mouthpart, for example, the elephant lice has different mandibles at the end of a long proboscis than the other lice. | The blood sucking lice has three stylets within it's head. It has small proboscis with the toothlike processes which is for holding the prey when it's sucking the blood out of it's prey but the other lice has little different mouthpart, for example, the elephant lice has different mandibles at the end of a long proboscis than the other lice. | ||
Lice uses antennae as clasping organ to hold female when they are mating. | Lice uses antennae as clasping organ to hold female when they are mating. | ||
Since female lice does not have defined ovipositor it has lobes at the end of it's abdomen with can be used when they are laying eggs in the specific area.<ref>Clay, Theresa. [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/349361/louse/39608/Ecology#toc39609 Louse] ''Encyclopaedia Britannica''. Web. Last Updated April 01 2010 .</ref> | Since the female lice does not have a defined ovipositor it has lobes at the end of it's abdomen with can be used when they are laying eggs in the specific area.<ref>Clay, Theresa. [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/349361/louse/39608/Ecology#toc39609 Louse] ''Encyclopaedia Britannica''. Web. Last Updated April 01 2010 .</ref> | ||
== Life Cycle == | == Life Cycle == | ||
