Biology 546
Human parasitology laboratory tutorial

The insect to the left was found attached to hair on the head of a child here in Manhattan. A mother brought the specimen into the parasitology laboratory for examination. What species, or type of arthropod, does it represent?

Bedbug
Pediculus humanus
Pthirus pubis
Reduviid

Original; photograph by S. J. Upton


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