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Xenopsylla cheopis
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Xenopsylla cheopis (Rothschild, 1903)
Pulex cheopis Rothschild, 1903: 85.
Records in Baltic States: Estonia (Daiter 1961a).
Hosts: R. rattus (EE).
European distribution: Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom (Rosický 1944; Séguy 1944; Smit 1957; Capela & Calvet 1992; Vashchonok 1996; Iori et al. 2003; Mifsud et al. 2008; Christou et al. 2010; Abreu-Yanes et al. 2020)
Notes
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 page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8426731
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- Scientific name authorship
- Rothschild
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Siphonaptera
- Family
- Pulicidae
- Genus
- Xenopsylla
- Species
- cheopis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Xenopsylla cheopis (Rothschild, 1903) sec. Kitrytė & Baltrūnaitė, 2023
References
- Rothschild, N. C. (1903) New species of Siphonaptera from Egypt and the Sudan (with two plates). The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 39, 83 - 87.
- Daiter, A. B. (1961 a) On Aphaniptera of small mammals in Estonia. Faunistilisi Markmeid, 1 (2), 128 - 137. [in Russian]
- Rosicky, B. (1944) Prodomus nasich blech. Prodomus Aphanipterorum patiae nostrae. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 21 - 22, 10 - 56.
- Seguy E. (1944) Faune de France. 43. Insectes Ectoparasites (Mallophages, Anoplures, Siphonapteres). Paul Lechevalier et Fils 12, Rue de Touron, Paris. 684 pp.
- Smit, F. G. A. M. (1957) Handbook for the identification of British insects 1 / 16. Siphonaptera. Royal Entomological Society of London, London, 94 pp.
- Capela, R. A. & Calvet, J. (1992) Contribucao para o conhecimento dos sifonapteros (Insecta, Siphonaptera) da Madeira e das Selvagens. Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Entomologia, 3 (2), 197 - 201.
- Vashchonok, V. S. (1996) Check-list of fleas (Siphonaptera) of the North-West of Russia. P arazitologiya, 30 (5), 410 - 424. [in Russian]
- Iori, A., Kathirithamby, J., Letardi, A., Pantaleoni, R. A. & Principi, M. M. (2003). Checklist delle specie della fauna Italiana. Fascicolo 62. Neuropteroidea (Megaloptera, Raphidioptera, Planipennia) Mecoptera, Siphonaptera, Strepsiptera. Comitato Scientifico per la Fauna d'Italia, Bologna. 20 pp.
- Mifsud, D., Borg, J. J. & Sultana, J. (2008) First record of Xenopsylla gratiosa Jordan & Rothschild, 1923 from the Maltese Islands (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae). Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Malta, 1, 43 - 45.
- Christou, Ch., Psaroulaki, A., Antoniou, M., Toumazos, P., Ioannou, I., Mazeris, A., Chochlakis, D. & Tselentis, Y. (2010) Rickettsia typhi and Rickettsia felis in Xenopsylla cheopis and Leptopsylla segnis parasitising rats in Cyprus. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 83 (6), 1301 - 1304. https: // doi. org / 10.4269 / ajtmh. 2010.10 - 0118
- Abreu-Yanes, E., Abreu-Acosta, N., Izquierdo-Rodriguez, E., Martin-Carrillo, N. & Foronda, P. (2020) Bartonella species and haplotypes in rodents and their fleas in Lanzarote and El Hierro in the Canary Islands, Spain. Journal of Vector Ecology, 45 (2), 254 - 261. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jvec. 12396