Xenopsylla cheopis
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Xenopsylla cheopis female (click on image to enlarge it)
Author(s): Ken Walker, Museum Victoria
Source: PaDIL
Author(s): Ken Walker, Museum Victoria
Source: PaDIL
Xenopsylla cheopis (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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| • Deutsch: | tropischer Rattenfloh |
| • English: | oriental rat flea |
| • Español: | pulga de la rata oriental |
| • Français: | puce orientale du rat |
Synonyms:
Xenopsylla bantorum
For details see the respective page in Wikipedia.
- Other images of Xenopsylla cheopis (IPM Images and PaDIL - click to enlarge)
female, anterior part
female, abdomen
identification characters
