Trichodectes is a genus of louse belonging to the family Trichodectidae. It was described in 1818 by Christian Ludwig Nitzsch, and it has a cosmopolitan distribution. Species are frequently found living on small mammals such as badgers and skunks, and some on domesticated animals like dogs. They range from to and have broad bodies.
Species
This is a list of the currently accepted species in the genus Trichodectes:
- Trichodectes baculus <small>(Schömmer, 1913)</small>
- Trichodectes canis <small>(De Geer, 1778)</small>
- Trichodectes carnivorus <small>(Springholz-Schmidt, 1935)</small>
- Trichodectes emersoni <small>(Hopkins, 1960)</small>
- Trichodectes ermineae <small>(Hopkins, 1941)</small>
- Trichodectes euarctidos <small>(Hopkins, 1954)</small>
- Trichodectes galictidis <small>(Werneck, 1934)</small>
- Trichodectes kuntzi <small>(Emerson, 1964)</small>
- Trichodectes melis <small>(Fabricius, 1805)</small>
- Trichodectes mustelae <small>(Schrank, 1803)</small>
- Trichodectes pinguis <small>(Burmeister, 1838)</small>
- Trichodectes tigris <small>(Ponton, 1870)</small>
- Trichodectes vosseleri <small>(Stobbe, 1913)</small>
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