Species list, Checklist of Superfamily Pediculoidea for Cameroon (Central Africa)

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Checklist for Superfamily Pediculoidea Retana-Salazar, 2006
and region Cameroon (Central Africa)

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	426 5797 18200	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Pterygota Lang, 1888 Winged insects	426 5797 18200	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Neoptera van der Wulp, 1890 Modern Wing-folding insects	408 5716 17992	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Paraneoptera Martynov, 1923	90 612 1005	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Phthiraptera Haeckel, 1896 Sucking and biting lice	8 17 22	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Anoplura Leach, 1815 Lice, Sucking lice	5 9 15	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraorder	Atentoria Von Keler, 1966	5 9 15	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Pediculoidea Retana-Salazar, 2006	2 2 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Cameroon
2 Families width 4 Species and 2 Subspecies

Haematopinidae Enderlein, 1904	Ungulate lice	3	Species	Taxom
Pediculidae (Leach, 1817)		1	Species	Taxom

Genera for Cameroon
2 Genera with 4 Species

Haematopinus Leach, 1758	Ungulate lice	3	Species	Taxom
Pediculus Linnaeus, 1758		3	Species	Taxom

Species list for Cameroon
4 Species and 2 Subspecies

Haematopinus eurysternus Nitzsch, 1818	Short Nosed Sucking Louse
Haematopinus quadripertusus Fahrenholz, 1916	Cattle tail louse
Haematopinus suis Linnaeus, 1758	Hog louse
Pediculus humanus Linnaeus, 1758	Body louse
Pediculus humanus capitis (De Geer, 1778)	⇒ Pediculus humanus Linnaeus, 1758
Pediculus humanus humanus (Linnaeus, 1758)	⇒ Pediculus humanus Linnaeus, 1758

Subnodes of Pediculoidea with occurrences in Cameroon

Family	Haematopinidae Enderlein, 1904 Ungulate lice	1 3	Genus Species	Taxom
Family	Pediculidae Leach, 1817	1 1	Genus Species	Taxom