A community driven site for authoritative information on lice. 

Phthiraptera.org has its origins in the lice website buildt by Bob Dagleish, but this new site is positioned to encourage contributions from registered users.  

Aims

This website is open to everyone around the world interested in lice, whether professionals or amateurs. Please help us maintain a high standard of content. The focus of this site lies primarily on the support of lice taxonomy.

State of art  

We are currently in the process of building the site. Information on phthirapterists and on lice collections is already available, but we are still working on providing up to date classifications of lice and their hosts. As soon as the classification is imported the lice bibliography will follow and then we will be ready for your contributions.

Help

FAQ and training files are available at the Scratchpad website. Some problems only occur when using Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera, so if possible use Mozilla Firefox.