Records of fleas (Siphonaptera) from Delaware
| Author(s) | Kennedy, Ashley C. | |
| Author(s) | Winter, Wil S. | |
| Author(s) | Gardner, Alfred L. | |
| Author(s) | Woodman, Neal | |
| Author(s) | Shifflett, Scarlet A. | |
| Author(s) | Redus, Sierra | |
| Author(s) | Newcomer, Jeffrey R. | |
| Author(s) | Eckerlin, Ralph P. | |
| Date Accessioned | 2024-06-25T19:24:16Z | |
| Date Available | 2024-06-25T19:24:16Z | |
| Publication Date | 2024-05-17 | |
| Description | 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Sponsor | We are grateful to the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) and the US Fish and Wildlife Service for access to public lands under their respective management and for permits to obtain fleas and small mammals for our studies. We gratefully acknowledge Jacob Walls (DNREC) for assistance with flea collection, Lance A. Durden (Georgia Southern University) for providing specialized knowledge, and Andrew Levy and Erick Rodriguez (FSCA) for providing information on specimens under their care. We thank Charles Bartlett (UDCC) and James Fetzner, Jr. (CMNH) for permission to examine specimens under their care, and we are indebted to Erika Machtinger and 2 anonymous reviewers whose suggestions greatly improved this manuscript. S. A. S. was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program grant (1940700). Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the US government or the state of Delaware. | |
| 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 | |
| ISSN | 1938-2928 | |
| URL | https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/34536 | |
| Language | en_US | |
| Publisher | Journal of Medical Entomology | |
| dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| Keywords | ectoparasite | |
| Keywords | Ceratophyllidae | |
| Keywords | Ctenophthalmidae | |
| Keywords | Pulicidae | |
| Keywords | vector surveillance | |
| Title | Records of fleas (Siphonaptera) from Delaware | |
| Type | Article |
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