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Answer for the clue "Type genus of Pediculidae true lice infecting humans ", 9 letters:
pediculus

Word definitions for pediculus in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A louse (of the family ''(taxlink Pediculidae family noshow=1)'')

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pediculus \Pe*dic"u*lus\, n.; pl. Pediculi . [L., a louse.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of wingless parasitic Hemiptera, including the common lice of man. See Louse .

Usage examples of pediculus.

Then looked up at Pediculus who thrust down the cruelest thumb of all.

I wish to settle the point once for all whether the Pediculus Mellitae is or is not the larva of Meloe.

I must get a peep through that microscope of his and see the pediculus which occupies a larger space in his mental vision than the midnight march of the solar systems.

I urge the more strongly, because there is a louse crawling up your collar - pediculus vestimenti seeking promotion to p.