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Issue: Vol. 4671 No. 4: 19 Sept. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-09-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4671.4.7
Page range: 564–570
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A New Species of Flea of the Genus Kohlsia Traub, 1950 (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae) from Veracruz, Mexico

Museo de Zoología “Alfonso L. Herrera”, Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 04510 Mexico, City.
Laboratorio de Entomología, Instituto de Diagnóstico y Referencia Epidemiológicos (InDRE), Secretaría de Salud, Mexico, City.
Siphonaptera Central mountains of Veracruz host Kohlsia new species rodents

Abstract

A new flea species, Kohlsia misantlensis, is described from the central mountains of Veracruz, Mexico. The hosts of this new species are the Mexican deer mouse Peromyscus mexicanus (Saussure, 1860) (Mammalia: Rodentia:Muridae) and the Mexican spiny pocket mouse Heteromys sp. (Heteromyidae). This flea species is easily recognized by the great development of sternite VIII with a tuft of seven long bristles near the apex. The new species is included in a taxonomic key for the species of genus Kohlsia occurring in Mexico.

 

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