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Wednesday, May 15, 2019

LICE IN HORSES

Courtesy of American Association of Equine Practitioners
Lice are members of the Phylum Arthropoda, Class Insecta, and Orders Anoplura (sucking Lice) and Mallophaga (chewing biting lice). Horses, donkeys, mules and other equids may be parasitized by an Anopluran or sucking louse, Haematopinus asini, and a mallophagan louse, Werneckiella (Damalinia, Bovicola) equi. 

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