1 San Francisco Vegetarian Society (SFVS) - in the Bay Area for over 30 years (San Francisco)  Vegetarian and Vegan Guide to Santa Barbara - Vegetarian and Vegan Restaurant, Grocery and Resource Guide to Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara)
The body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus, sometimes called Pediculus humanus corporis) is a louse that infests humans. The condition of being infested with head lice, body lice, or pubic lice is known as pediculosis. Nits are louse eggs. 2  They are generally easy to see in the seams of an infested person's clothing, particularly around the waistline, under armpits or even in body hair. 3  They are oval and usually yellow to white in color.
Pediculus humanus humanus (the body louse) is indistinguishable in appearance from Pediculus humanus capitis (the head louse) but will interbreed only under laboratory conditions. In their natural state, they occupy different habitats and do not usually meet; in particular, body lice have evolved to attach their eggs to clothes, whereas head lice attach their eggs to the base of hairs.