Siphonaptera


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Si·pho·nap·te·ra

(sī'fō-nap'tĕ-ră),
The fleas, an order of wingless insect ectoparasites highly adapted for survival in mammalian fur; they are flattened laterally, spined, and equipped with well-developed metathoracic legs for jumping.
[G. siphōn, tube, + G. a- priv. + pteron, wing]
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Siphonaptera

(si?fo-nap'ter-a) [? + apteros, wingless]
An order of insects commonly called fleas. They are wingless, undergo complete metamorphosis, and have piercing and sucking mouth parts. The body is compressed laterally, and the legs are adapted for leaping. Fleas feed on the blood of birds and mammals. They transmit the causative organisms of several diseases (bubonic plague, endemic or murine typhus, and tularemia) and are also the intermediate hosts of certain tapeworms.
See: flea
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Siphonaptera

see APHANIPTERA.
Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005
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Some Abiotic Factors Affecting the Survival of the Cat Flea, Ctenocephalides felis (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae).
Kis Aylarinda Evcil Kedi ve Kopeklerdeki Pire (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae) Enfestasyonlari ile Ilgili Antalya, Turkiye'den Bir Arastirma/A Research about Flea (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae) Infestation on Domestic Cats and Dogs in Winter Months, from Antalya, Turkey
Patterson, "Effect of methoprene and diflubenzuron on larval development of the cat flea (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae).," Journal of Economic Entomology, vol.
Virulence of Aerial Conidia of Beauveria bassiana Produced under LED Light to Ctenocephalides felis (Cat Flea)
Gage, "Early-phase transmission of Yersinia pestis by unblocked Xenopsylla cheopis (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae) is as efficient as transmission by blocked fleas," Journal of Medical Entomology, vol.
The Effect of Seasonal Weather Variation on the Dynamics of the Plague Disease
Notes on the geographical distribution and host preferences in the order Siphonaptera. Journal of Medical Entomology 9, 511-520.
La deteccion de Bartonella spp. y Rickettsia spp. en pulgas, garrapatas y piojos recolectados en las zonas rurales de Peru
(1985) The fleas of Canada, Alaska and Greenland (Siphonaptera).
Ectoparasites of the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana), raccoon (Procyon lotor), and striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis) from Keith County, Nebraska
Repetitive sequences in the ITS1 region of the ribosomal DNA of Tunga penetrans and other flea species (Insecta: Siphonaptera).
Cost-effective bead-based method for high-throughput homogenization of individual small arthropods
cheriway was identified as sticktight flea Echidnophaga gallinacea (Siphonaptera, Pulicidae).
External parasites of raptors (Falconiformes and Strigiformes): identification in an ex situ population from Mexico
Guillen 2003 Techniques of DNA-studies on prehispanic ectoparasites (Pulex sp., Pulicidae, Siphonaptera) from animal mummies of the Chiribaya culture, Southern Peru.
Paleoepidemiologia de parasitos intestinales y piojos en Sudamerica precolombina
Hennig accepted the Holometabola as a monophyletic group, and provided evidence that supported many of the groupings recognized by earlier (Carmean et al., 1992; Pashley et al., 1993; Chalwatzis et al., 1996) and more recent (Whiting, 2002, 2004; Beutel and Pohl, 2006; Wiegmann et al., 2009) molecular phylogenies, especially the clades Neuropteroidea, Coleopteroidea (possibly including the Strepsiptera), Hymenoptera, Mecopteroidea, Antliophora (possibly including the Siphonaptera), and Amphiesmenoptera.
Evidence for an earliest late carboniferous divergence time and the early larval ecology and diversification of major Holometabola lineages
The subfamily Anomiopsyllinae (Hystrichopsyllidae: Siphonaptera).
Metazoan parasites of Peromyscus pectoralis (Rodentia: Muridae) in central Texas
The Ectoparasites (Ixodides, Anoplura and Siphonaptera) of Indiana Mammals.
The blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) in Indiana: a review
Ultrastructural comparison of the midgut epithelia of fleas with different feeding behavior pattern (Xenopsylla cheopis, Echidnophaga gallinacea, Tunga penetrans, Siphonaptera, Pulicidae).
Morphological aspect of the midgut of Anopheles aquasalis (Curry, 1932) insecta: diptera/Aspecto morfologico del intestino medio de Anopheles aquasalis (Curry, 1932) insecta: diptera

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