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Fleas as Useful Tools for Science
Diversity, 2023 Adult fleas are blood-feeding insects that exclusively infest mammals, acting as parasites and disease vectors. Although certain species exclusively inhabit nests, others are commonly found on the bodies of mammals.
Pedro Marcos Linardi
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Insects in birds’ nests from Argentina: Asthenes dorbignyi (Reichenbach, 1853) [Aves: Furnariidae] [PDF]
, 2013 Asthenes dorbignyi (Reichenbach, 1853) es un furnárido que se distribuye en los Andes de Perú, Bolivia, norte de Chile y noroeste de la Argentina entre los 2200 a los 4600 m sobre el nivel del mar.
Di Iorio, Osvaldo +1 more
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Medical and Veterinary Entomology, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 422-430, September 2025.We determined morphological and molecularly two species of bat flies: T. parasiticus (Streblidae), and B. silvae (Nycteribiidae). We generated the first sequences for both species in the country for the cytochrome oxidase subunit I. We do recover monophyletic groups for both species, and we discussed the tree topology.
Dante Lobos‐Ovalle +7 more
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A new flea of the genus Ctenidiosomus (Siphonaptera, Pygiopsyllidae) from Salta Province, Argentina
ZooKeys, 2015 A new species of flea of the genus Ctenidiosomus Jordan, 1931 (Siphonaptera: Pygiopsyllidae) is described from Phyllotis osilae J. A. Allen, 1901, from Salta Province, Argentina. This is the first time that Ctenidiosomus has been recorded in Argentina. A
M. Fernanda Lopez-Berrizbeitia +3 more
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Diversity, 2023 From a phylogenetic point of view, the Malacopsyllidae family and the Rhopalopsillidae family (comprising Parapsyllinae and Rhopalopsyllinae subfamilies) have been traditionally classified within the Malacopsylloidea superfamily, mostly restricted to ...
Antonio Zurita +2 more
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First record of Pachycrepoideus vindemmiae (Rondani, 1875) (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae) from Malta [PDF]
, 2016 Short correspondence article on Pachycrepoideus vindemmiae (Rondani, 1875). A pteromalid wasp that emerged from puparia of Drosophila spp.
Farrugia, Lucia
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Evolutionary implications of a deep‐time perspective on insect pollination
Biological Reviews, Volume 100, Issue 4, Page 1452-1466, August 2025.ABSTRACT Plant pollination by insects represents one of the most transformative and iconic ecological relationships in the natural world. Despite tens of thousands of papers, as well as numerous books, on pollination biology published over the past 200 years, most studies focused on the fossil record of pollinating insects have only been published in ...
David Peris +10 more
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Türkiye Parazitoloji Dergisi, 2021 Ectoparasite infestation was detected in a macroscopic examination of a red fox (Vulpes vulpes) that was brought dead to the Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Ondokuz Mayıs University Collected tick, lice and flea samples were ...
Gökhan Eren +4 more
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Entomopathogenic fungi, Metarhizium anisopliae and Beauveria bassiana reduce the survival of Xenopsylla brasiliensis larvae (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae). [PDF]
, 2012 Entomopathogenic fungi, particularly those belonging to the genera Metarhizium and Beauveria have shown great promise as arthropod vector control tools. These agents, however, have not been evaluated against flea vectors of plague.
Katakweba, Abdul A +4 more
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Oikos, Volume 2025, Issue 5, May 2025.Seabird health is linked to their marine and terrestrial environments, but health–environment relationships are rarely described. Parasites are common among seabird colonies, however reductions to seabird health may occur if the delicate parasite–host relationship is imbalanced.
Melanie R. Wells +3 more
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