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Issue: Vol. 2224 No. 1: 8 Sep. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-09-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2224.1.4
Page range: 60–68
Abstract views: 38
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new species of fleas of the genus Kohlsia Traub, 1950 (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae) from Mexico

Museo de Zoología “Alfonso L. Herrera”, Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Apdo. Postal 70-399, C.P. 04510 Mexico, D.F
Laboratorio de Entomología, Instituto de Diagnóstico y Referencia Epidemiológicos (InDRE), CENAVECE, Secretaría de Salud, Mexico, D. F
Bayer de México, S.A. de C.V. Bayer Environmental Science. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 259, Mexico, D. F. C.P. 11520
Siphonaptera Kohlsia new species rodents bat

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Kohlsia Traub, 1950 from Mexico are described and illustrated, K. zyanya and K. ahuacatlan. A key to the species of Kohlsia known to occur in Mexico is provided.

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