Iberian lynx louse | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Psocodea |
Family: | Trichodectidae |
Genus: | Felicola |
Species: | †F. isidoroi
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Binomial name | |
†Felicola isidoroi Perez & Palma, 2001
[1]
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Felicola isidoroi, the Iberian lynx louse, is an extinct species of trichodectid chewing louse.
It is known only from a single specimen, a male. [2] In an example of conservation-induced extinction, it likely died out when the last survivors of its host species, the Iberian lynx, were taken into captivity and de-loused. [3] The specimen is slightly larger than males of most of the remaining species within the subgenus Lorisicola. [1] The female has never been seen. The type specimen is in the collection of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid. [2]
Iberian lynx louse | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Psocodea |
Family: | Trichodectidae |
Genus: | Felicola |
Species: | †F. isidoroi
|
Binomial name | |
†Felicola isidoroi Perez & Palma, 2001
[1]
|
Felicola isidoroi, the Iberian lynx louse, is an extinct species of trichodectid chewing louse.
It is known only from a single specimen, a male. [2] In an example of conservation-induced extinction, it likely died out when the last survivors of its host species, the Iberian lynx, were taken into captivity and de-loused. [3] The specimen is slightly larger than males of most of the remaining species within the subgenus Lorisicola. [1] The female has never been seen. The type specimen is in the collection of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid. [2]