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Pulex irritans Linnaeus 1758

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Pulex irritans Linnaeus, 1758

Pulex irritans Linnaeus, 1758, 614. Records in Baltic States: Estonia (Daiter 1961a), Latvia (Eglitis 1957; Lapina 1959; Grinbergs 1976), Lithuania (Likevičienė 1957).

Hosts: A. flavicollis (LV, LT), R. norvegicus (EE), C. glareolus (LV, LT), M. arvalis (LV).

European distribution: Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom (Cooreman 1950; Rosický 1950; Niewiadomska 1953; Smit 1962; 1967; 1969; Adamovich 1971; Suciu 1973; Weidner 1973; George 1974; Beaucournu & Gosalbez 1975; Chikilevskaya 1977; Beaucournu 1978; Vashchonok 1996; Brelih & Trilar 2000; Skirnisson 2001; Iori et al. 2003; Hatz 2005; Christodoulopoulos et al. 2006; Cyprich et al. 2006; Sréter-Lancz et al. 2006; Brinck-Lindroth & Smit 2007; Mifsud et al. 2008; Xhaxhiu et al. 2009; Kanchev et al. 2012; Pavlović et al. 2016; Mihailov et al. 2019)

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Published as part of Kitrytė, Neringa & Baltrūnaitė, Laima, 2023, Ectoparasitic mites, ticks (Acari: Trombidiformes, Mesostigmata, Ixodida) and insects (Insecta: Psocodea, Siphonaptera) of ground-dwelling small mammals in the Baltic States. An annotated checklist, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 5353 (1) on pages 29-30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8426731

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Biodiversity

Family
Pulicidae
Genus
Pulex
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Siphonaptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
irritans
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pulex irritans Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Kitrytė & Baltrūnaitė, 2023

References

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  • Lapina, I. M. (1959) Study of ectoparasites of small forest mammals in the Latvian SSR. Fauna Latviskoi SSR, 2, 289 - 322. [in Russian]
  • Grinbergs, A. (1976) Latvijas blusu (Siphonaptera) katalogs. Latvijas Entomologs, 18, 5 - 26.
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  • Sreter-Lancz, Z., Tornyai, K., Szell, Z., Sreter, T. & Marialigeti, K. (2006) Bartonella infections in fleas (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae) and lack of Bartonellae in ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) from Hungary. Folia Parasitologica, 53, 313 - 316. https: // doi. org / 10.14411 / fp. 2006.039
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  • Xhaxhiu, D., Kusi, I., Rapti, D., Visser, M., Knaus, M., Linder, T. & Rehbein, S. (2009) Ectoparasites of dogs and cats in Albania. Parasitology Research, 105 (6), 1577 - 1587. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00436 - 009 - 1591 - x
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  • Pavlovic, I., Jovcevski, Sr., Rogozarski, D., Csordas, F., Mitrovic, N., Mijatovic, I., Marcic, D., Ilic, Z., Cirkovic, D., Sekler, M., Jocevski, St. & Ristic, M. (2016) Biodiversity of ticks and fleas of dogs in the Western Balkans - Preliminary examinations. Bulletin of University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj - Napoca. Veterinary Medicine, 73 (2), 220 - 223. https: // doi. org / 10.15835 / buasvmcn-vm: 11344
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