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Louse found on white-tailed deer - Tricholipeurus
Copyright © 2012 Tim Eisele

Louse found on white-tailed deer - Tricholipeurus
Atlantic Mine, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
October 14, 2012
Size: About 2 mm
Found this louse on a white-tailed deer that my wife shot in the backyard during archery season. Collected it using a "nit comb". Given the host, I think it is a chewing louse in the genus Tricholipeurus.
Contributed by Tim Eisele on 21 October, 2012 - 4:58am
Last updated 22 October, 2012 - 12:03pm

Moved tentatively based on host data; habitus consistent
Moved from Trichodectidae.
… v belov, 22 October, 2012 - 12:03pm

nice... any chance to see a plain dorsal & plain ventral shots?
… v belov, 21 October, 2012 - 12:09pm

 
Unfortunately no, this was th
Unfortunately no, this was the best picture I got. It tended to scurry and flip itself over.
… Tim Eisele, 22 October, 2012 - 7:58am

 
so you didn't collect it??
:/
… v belov, 22 October, 2012 - 12:03pm

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