- Flea, the
common name for the
order Siphonaptera,
includes 2,500
species of
small flightless insects that live as
external parasites of
mammals and birds...
- "
Siphonaptera" is a name used to
refer to the
following rhyme by
Augustus De
Morgan (
Siphonaptera being the
biological order to
which fleas belong): Great...
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environments in
tropical locations. The
Mecoptera are
closely related to the
Siphonaptera (fleas), and a
little more
distantly to the
Diptera (true flies). They...
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Siphonaptera (fleas) are
inside that clade, so that the
traditional "Mecoptera" is paraphyletic.
However the
earlier suggestion that the
Siphonaptera...
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Strepsiptera and Coleoptera),
Hymenopteroida (Hymenoptera), and
Panorpida (
Siphonaptera, Diptera, Trichoptera,
Lepidoptera and Mecoptera).
Molecular analysis...
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Katharina Dittmar (2008). "A
molecular phylogeny of
fleas (Insecta:
Siphonaptera):
origins and host ****ociations" (PDF). Cladistics. 24 (5): 1–31. doi:10...
- flea, is a
parasitic nearctic insect and a flea,
belonging to the
order Siphonaptera, the fleas. With an
adult body
length of as much as 0.5
inches (13 mm)...
- chigger, a
parasitical mite. However, the
jigger is a type of flea (Order
Siphonaptera). The
chigger is a
minute arachnid.
Mites penetrate the skin and feed...
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Antliophora Mecoptera (scorpionflies) +
Siphonaptera (fleas)
Diptera (gnats, mosquitoes, flies)
Amphiesmenoptera Trichoptera (caddisflies) Lepidoptera...
-
Siphonaptera (fleas) are
inside that clade, so that the
traditional "Mecoptera" is paraphyletic.
However the
earlier suggestion that the
Siphonaptera...
