Siphonaptera
Fleas
- Tungidae
- Pulicidae
- Rhopalopsyllidae
- Malacopsyllidae
- Vermipsyllidae
- Hystrichopsyllidae
- Coptopsyllidae
- Pygiopsyllidae
- Stephanocircidae
- Macropsyllidae
- Xyphiopsyllidae
- Ancistropsyllidae
- Chimaeropsyllidae
- Ischnopsyllidae
- Leptopsyllidae
- Ceratopsyllidae
Characteristics
Laterally flattened.Here is the head of Ctenocephalides:
References
Dallai, R., P. Lupetti, B.A. Afzelius, et al. 2003. Sperm structure of Mecoptera and Siphonaptera (Insecta) and the phylogenetic position of Boreus hyemalis. Zoomorphology 122(4): 211-220.
Whiting, M.F. 2002. Mecoptera is paraphyletic: multiple genes and phylogeny of Mecoptera and Siphonaptera. Zoologica Scripta 31(1): 93-104.
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