Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Halipeurus noctivagus
piojo, louse
ectoparasite
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Psocodea
Suborder
Troctomorpha
Family
Philopteridae
Genus
Halipeurus
Species
noctivagus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Lipeurus diversus var. major (Kellogg & Kuwana, 1902); Lipeurus diversus (Kellogg, 1906); Lipeurus languidus (Kellogg, 1906); Lipeurus limitatus (Kellogg, 1906); Halipeurus diversus (Thompson, 1939)
- Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
- Linsley, E.G. (1977) Insects of the Galápagos (Supplement). Occassional Papers of the Califoria Academy of Sciences 125: 1-50.
- Palma, R.L. Peck, S.B. (2013) An annotated checklist of parasitic lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from the Galápagos Islands Zootaxa 3627 (1): 001–087
- Smith, V. (ed.) (2012) Phthiraptera.info. Website published by the International Society of Phthirapterists. http://phthiraptera.info/
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"Galapagos Species Database, Halipeurus noctivagus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=13792. Accessed 4 November 2026.