30x Dermatoscopy of Neanide (or nymph) in situ.

A third instar stage is showed while it's grasping on child's hair.
They can clearly see abdominal respiratory spiracles and a faecal tail coming out from cloaca.
Young lice's feces have the particularity to be reunited in reddish spheres clusters.
Such a characteristic makes them pathognomonic in comparison to any other exogenous deposit when found stuck to the hair or laying on the scalp surface.


