Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Checklist of Fleas

Index

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Overview

Below is a list of the flea species known from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This lists is provided by R. Lewis. If you have corrections, additions, questions, or comments, contact Chuck Parker at <chuck_parker@usgs.gov>.

Updated: 7 July, 1999.

Index

Order SIPHONAPTERA

Family CERATOPHYLLIDAE
Flea Species
Host Species - Common name
Monopsyllus vison Baker 1904
Tamiasciurus hudsonicusred squirrel
Orchopeas howardi (Baker 1895)
Tree squirrels and their predators
O. leucopus (Baker 1904)
76 species of rodents, birds, etc.
O. sexdentatus pennsulvanicus (Jordan 1928)
Neotoma species - woodrats

Family CTENOPHTHALMIDAE
Catallagia borealis Esing 1929
Clithrionomys gapperi - red-backed mouse
Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes Baker 1904
50 mammal species, mostly rodents
Doratopsylla blarinae C.Fox 1914
Blarina brevicauda - short-tailed shrew
Epitedia cavernicola Traub 1957
Neotoma species - woodrats
E. wenmanni (Rothschild 1904)
Peromyscus and other small rodents
Stenoponia americana (Baker 1899)
25 species, including deermouse

Family HYSTRICHOPSYLLIDAE
Hystrichopsylla tahavuana Jordan 1929
Shrews and moles

Family ISCHNOPSYLLIDAE
Myodopsylla insignis (Rothschild 1903) - Bat flea
Myotis lucifugus - little brown bat

Family LEPTOPSYLLIDAE
Peromyscopsylla catatina (Jordan 1928) - Mouse flea
Microtine rodents and many other mammals
Peromyscopsylla hesperomys (Baker 1904) - Mouse flea
50+ species, especially Peromyscus

Family PULICIDAE
Cediopsylla simplex(Baker 1895) - Rabbit flea
Sylvilagus species - cottontail rabbits
Ctenocephalides felis (Bouche 1835) - Cat flea
Carnivores, including domesitic cats

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