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(Anoplura) have around 500 species and represent the smaller of
the two traditional suborders of lice. The Anoplura are all
blood-feeding ectoparasites of mammals. They can cause localised
skin irritations and are vectors of several blood-borne
diseases. Children appear particularly susceptible to attracting
lice, possibly due to their fine hair. At least three species of
Anoplura are parasites of humans; the human condition of being
infested with sucking lice is called pediculosis. Pediculus
humanus is divided into two subspecies, Pediculus humanus
humanus, or the body louse, sometimes nicknamed "the seam
squirrel" for its habit of laying of eggs in the seams of
clothing, and Pediculus humanus capitis, or the h