Strigiphilus

Strigiphilus is a genus of chewing louse in the suborder Ischnocera. It was circumscribed in 1910 by Eric Mjöberg.

Taxonomic history
Mjöberg initially circumscribed Strigiphilus as a subgenus of the genus he referred to as Docophorus (now known as Philopterus).

In a 1966 paper, Theresa Clay recognized 29 species and grouped them into the following nine species groups:
 * Strigiphilus rostratus (Burmeister, 1838) group
 * Strigiphilus heterocerus (Grube, 1851) group
 * Strigiphilus cursor (Burmeister, 1838) group
 * Strigiphilus crenulatus (Giebel, 1874) group
 * Strigiphilus macrogenitalis Emerson & Elbel, 1957 group
 * Strigiphilus strigis (Pontoppidan, 1763) group
 * Strigiphilus siamensis Emerson & Elbel, 1957 group
 * Strigiphilus ketupae Emerson & Elbel, 1957 group
 * Strigiphilus cursitans (Nitzsch, 1861) group

The largest group is the S. curstans group.

Hosts
Strigiphilus is the only genus of Ischnocera to exclusively parasitize owls.

Species
, there are approximately fifty species of Strigiphilus. Species include:


 * Strigiphilus garylarsoni Clayton, 1990 (cursitans group)