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New bat-fleas (Siphonaptera: Ischnopsyllidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

F. G. A. M. Smit
F. G. A. M. Smit
Affiliation:
British Museum (Natural History), The Zoological Museum, Tring
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The genus Ischnopsyllus Westwood, comprising at the moment sixteen species and subspecies, is rather a heterogenous group. Although I am reluctant to split this relatively small genus, a certain degree of division is unavoidable. First, I. grahami Waterston certainly does not belong to the genus Ischnopsyllus, and since this species does not fit any other genus of bat-fleas, a new genus has had to be erected for it (see below, where a new subspecies of grahami is also described). Secondly, the hexactenus-group of Ischnopsyllus is sufficiently distinct from the rest of the genus to make it desirable to restore, as a subgenus, the genus Hexactenopsylla Oudemans, which was synonymized with Ischnopsyllus by Dalla Torre in 1924.

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Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 44 , Issue 1-2 , May 1954 , pp. 144 - 156
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1954

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