Phtheiriasis Pubis

The pediculus pubis affects a preference for the pubic region of both sexes, but is not confined to this locality; but in women may also be met with in the axillary region and in the eyebrows, and in men among the chest hairs and in the beard and whiskers. It rarely gives rise to as much irritation as the other varieties of pediculus, and its presence is often discovered accidentally. The insect attaches its eggs to the hairs like the pediculus capitis, and adheres to them itself or to the skin in the most tenacious manner by the aid of its crab-like claws.