Records of fleas (Siphonaptera) from Delaware
Date
2024-05-17
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Journal of Medical Entomology
Abstract
We present an annotated checklist of fleas (Siphonaptera) known to occur in the state of Delaware based on an examination of Siphonaptera collections at the University of Delaware and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, as well as new specimens of fleas we collected from wildlife, other hosts, and tick flags. We review published records and compile them herein with our new records, which include 3 species previously unreported from Delaware. With these additions, there are now 18 flea species from 19 avian and mammalian hosts documented from Delaware.
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This article was originally published in Journal of Medical Entomology. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjae069. © The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Entomological Society of America. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords
ectoparasite, Ceratophyllidae, Ctenophthalmidae, Pulicidae, vector surveillance
Citation
Ashley C Kennedy, Wil S Winter, Alfred L Gardner, Neal Woodman, Scarlet A Shifflett, Sierra Redus, Jeffrey R Newcomer, Ralph P Eckerlin, Records of fleas (Siphonaptera) from Delaware, Journal of Medical Entomology, 2024;, tjae069, https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjae069