pediculina

from The Century Dictionary.

• Same as Pediculidæ.
• Lice proper, as a suborder or other superfamily group of degraded parasitic hemipterous insects, apterous and ametabolous, with small indistinctly segmented thorax, enlarged abdomen, and mandibulate mouth. See Anoplura, Mallophaga, and louse.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of parasitic hemipterous insects, including the true lice. See Illust. in Appendix.