"mallophagan" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1985, Olin Sewall Pettingill, Jr., Ornithology in Laboratory and Field, page 116:",
          "text": "As a rule, mallophagans are host-specific, each species being restricted and adapted to a single bird species or groups of closely related bird species.",
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          "ref": "1993, May Berenbaum, Ninety-nine More Maggots, Mites, and Munchers, page 226:",
          "text": "Most are associated with birds (although at least one hundred species deign to dine on mammalian body tissues); the majority of mallophagans on birds (and hence the majority of mallophagans in general) have a pair of well-developed claws on the tips of their tarsi.",
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          "text": "While these mouthparts are not primarily designed to pierce skin some mallophagans do feed on blood. Menacanthus stramineus, a present-day mallophagan, feeds at the base of feathers or on the skin of the chicken.",
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        "A chewing louse, any louse of the now obsolete suborder Mallophaga, any true louse that is not a sucking louse."
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