Colpocephalum: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Psocodea
- Family
- Menoponidae
- Genus
- Colpocephalum
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Colpocephalum
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Colpocephalum
Colpocephalum is a genus of chewing louse. Christian Ludwig Nitzsch named the genus in 1818. The Plenary Powers of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature selected Colpocephalum zebra Burmeister, 1838 as its type species in the 1950s. There are approximately 135 species in this genus, and they are ectoparasites of birds in at least a dozen different orders.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Actornithophilus
- Amyrsidea
- Ancistrona
- Apterygon
- Ardeiphilus
- Austromenopon
- Bonomiella
- Ciconiphilus
- Colimenopon
- Colpocephalum
- Comatomenopon
- Dennyus
- Eidmanniella
- Eomenacanthus
- Eucolpocephalum
- Eureum
- Franciscoloa
- Fregatiella
- Gruimenopon
- Helenomus
- Heleonomus
- Heteromenopon
- Hohorstiella
- Holomenopon
- Kurodaia
- Longimenopon
- Machaerilaemus
- Menacanthus
- Menopon
- Meromenopon
- Myrsidea
- Neocolpocephalum
- Nosopon
- Osborniella
- Pelecanigogus
- Piagetiella
- Picusphilus
- Plegadiphilus
- Procellariphaga
- Pseudomenopon
- Tendeiroella
- Trinoton
- Upupacanthus
Child Taxa
- Colpocephalum angulaticeps
- Colpocephalum brachysomum
- Colpocephalum californici
- Colpocephalum eucarenum
- Colpocephalum flavescens
- Colpocephalum foetens
- Colpocephalum fregili
- Colpocephalum germanum
- Colpocephalum gypsi
- Colpocephalum heterosoma
- Colpocephalum ibicter
- Colpocephalum impressum
- Colpocephalum leptopygos
- Colpocephalum mycteriae
- Colpocephalum nanum
- Colpocephalum occidentalis
- Colpocephalum pectinatum
- Colpocephalum pilgrimi
- Colpocephalum polonum
- Colpocephalum polybori
- Colpocephalum scalariforme
- Colpocephalum spineum
- Colpocephalum subzerafae
- Colpocephalum tausi
- Colpocephalum tirkhan
- Colpocephalum turbinatum