bird louse

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Noun1.Bird louse - wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for bitingbird louse - wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds
biting louse, louse
insect - small air-breathing arthropod
Mallophaga, order Mallophaga - biting lice
chicken louse, Menopon gallinae, Menopon palladum, shaft louse - a louse parasitic on poultry
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Taxonomic revision of old world members of the feather louse genus Columbicola (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera), including descriptions of eight new species.
Dos nuevos registros de piojos masticadores (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Philopteridae) sobre Leptotila megalura (Aves: Columbidae) en la Argentina

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