View source for Xenopsylla cheopis

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[[File:Xenopsylla_cheopis_PaDIL136561a.jpg|250px|thumb|''Xenopsylla cheopis'' female (click on image to enlarge it)<br/>Author(s): Ken Walker, Museum Victoria<br/>Source: [http://www.padil.gov.au/pests-and-diseases/Pest/Main/136561 PaDIL]]]
<font color="#800000">'''''Xenopsylla cheopis'''''</font> (Rothschild, 1903) - (Oriental rat flea)

The species has different rodents as hosts and a world-wide distribution. It can transmit various diseases to humans like the bubonic plague (''Yersinia pestis'') and murine typhus (''Rickettsia typhi''), a less severe form of the epidemic typhus. Rodents are natural reservoirs of both diseases.

''Xenopsylla cheopis bantorum''  - is an East African subspecies.
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'''Synonyms:'''<br/>
''Xenopsylla bantorum''

For details see the respective page in [[wikipedia:Oriental rat flea|Wikipedia]].


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File:Xenopsylla_cheopis_PaDIL136561b.jpg|female, anterior part
File:Xenopsylla_cheopis_PaDIL136561c.jpg|female, abdomen
File:Xenopsylla_cheopis_IPM1466042.jpg|identification characters
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[[Category:Xenopsylla (genus)]]