Editing Amblycera (section)

== Classification ==
Amblycera is currently classified as a [[parvorder]], and it was named by Kellogg in 1896.<ref name="PsocodeaSpeciesFile">{{Cite web| website = Psocodea Species File |title = Amblycera Kellogg, 1896 |last1 = Hopkins |first1 = H. |last2 = Johnson |first2 = K. P. |last3 = Smith |first3 = V. S. |url = https://psocodea.speciesfile.org/otus/884594/overview}}</ref> Amblycera belongs to the [[infraorder]] [[Phthiraptera]], which contains all lice, and is part of the larger [[order (biology)|order]] [[Psocodea]], which also contains booklice, barklice and barkflies. Around 30% of all bird lice belong to Amblycera.<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |last=T. Atkinson |first=Carter |last2=J. Thomas |first2=Nancy |year=2008 |title=Parasitic Diseases of Wild Birds |url=https://darwin.biology.utah.edu/PDFs/BC7.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=May 15, 2025 |website=darwin.biology.utah.edu}}</ref> A [[cladogram]] showing the position of Amblycera within [[Phthiraptera]] and [[Psocodea]] is shown below:<ref name="deMoya2021">{{Cite journal|last1=de Moya|first1=Robert S|last2=Yoshizawa|first2=Kazunori|last3=Walden|first3=Kimberly K O|last4=Sweet|first4=Andrew D|last5=Dietrich|first5=Christopher H|last6=Kevin P|first6=Johnson|date=2021-06-16|editor-last=Buckley|editor-first=Thomas|title=Phylogenomics of Parasitic and Nonparasitic Lice (Insecta: Psocodea): Combining Sequence Data and Exploring Compositional Bias Solutions in Next Generation Data Sets|url=https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/article/70/4/719/5912026|journal=Systematic Biology|language=en|volume=70|issue=4|pages=719–738|doi=10.1093/sysbio/syaa075|pmid=32979270|issn=1063-5157|doi-access=free}}</ref>
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