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While phoresy among parasitic lice has been frequently recorded between avian-associated ischnoceran species riding on louse flies, reports of phoretic lice parasitic on mammals are exceedingly rare. Here, we report a case of phoresy of the chewing louse Damalinia (Cervicola) meyeri (Taschenberg) hitchhiking attached to the legs of the snipe fly Symphoromyia immaculata (Diptera: Ragionidae) (Meigen), collected while feeding on a human in central Italy. 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