Flea (redirect from Siphonaptera)
Flea, the common name for the order Siphonaptera, includes 2,500 species of small flightless insects that live as external parasites of mammals and birds...
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"Siphonaptera" is a name used to refer to the following rhyme by Augustus De Morgan (Siphonaptera being the biological order to which fleas belong): Great...
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Siphonaptera (fleas) are inside that clade, so that the traditional "Mecoptera" is paraphyletic. However the earlier suggestion that the Siphonaptera...
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environments in tropical locations. The Mecoptera are closely related to the Siphonaptera (fleas), and a little more distantly to the Diptera (true flies). They...
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chigger, a parasitical mite. However, the jigger is a type of flea (Order Siphonaptera). The chigger is a minute arachnid. Mites penetrate the skin and feed...
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Katharina Dittmar (2008). "A molecular phylogeny of fleas (Insecta: Siphonaptera): origins and host associations" (PDF). Cladistics. 24 (5): 1–31. doi:10...
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Antliophora Mecoptera (scorpionflies) + Siphonaptera (fleas) Diptera (gnats, mosquitoes, flies) Amphiesmenoptera Trichoptera (caddisflies) Lepidoptera...
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flea, is a parasitic nearctic insect and a flea, belonging to the order Siphonaptera, the fleas. With an adult body length of as much as 0.5 inches (13 mm)...
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Siphonaptera (fleas) are inside that clade, so that the traditional "Mecoptera" is paraphyletic. However the earlier suggestion that the Siphonaptera...
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Biting flies (Tabanidae) Nematode (Loa Loa) African eyeworm NA Fleas (Siphonaptera, Pulicidae) Bacteria (Yersinia pestis, Bartonella henselae) Plague, Cat...
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