Pthirus pubis

Reeves, Will K., Durden, Lance A., Ritzi, Christopher M., Beckham, Katy R., Super, Paul E & Oconnor, Barry M., 2007, Ectoparasites and other ectosymbiotic arthropods of vertebrates in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA, Zootaxa 1392, pp. 31-68 : 35

Pthirus pubis (L.)—crab louse

Ex Homo sapiens (human): 1F, TN, Sevier Co., Sugarlands Visitor Center, 2003, L­3098. The crab louse has a cosmopolitan distribution as an ectoparasite of humans ( Kim et al. 1986, Durden &

Musser 1994). The specimen listed above was presented by a Park visitor as something that had bitten her.