Myodopsylla insignis (Rothschild)

Reeves, Will K., Durden, Lance A., Ritzi, Christopher M., Beckham, Katy R., Super, Paul E & Oconnor, Barry M., 2007, Ectoparasites and other ectosymbiotic arthropods of vertebrates in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA, Zootaxa 1392, pp. 31-68 : 42

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.273680

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6243917

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scientific name

Myodopsylla insignis (Rothschild)
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Myodopsylla insignis (Rothschild)

Ex Myotis lucifugus (little brown myotis): 2 F, TN, Blount Co., Dry Valley (in cave), 21 Nov. 1949, D. W. Pfitzer ( Pfitzer 1950, Benton 1980, Durden & Kollars 1997); 23 M, 75 F, TN, Blount Co., Abram’s Creek, 19 Jun. 2002, TN Tech. Univ. group, L­ 2922; 3 M, 7 F, TN, Blount Co., Abram’s Creek, 19 Jun. 2002, TN Tech. Univ. group, L­ 2923; 2 M, 9 F, TN, Blount Co., Abram’s Creek, 19 Jun. 2002, TN Tech. Univ. group, L­ 2924. Myodopsylla insignis parasitizes the little brown myotis in the eastern USA and other bat species in the

western USA (Durden & Kollars 1997).

Benton, A. H. (1980) An atlas of the fleas of the eastern United States. Marginal Media,

Pfitzer, D. W. (1950) A manual of the fleas of Tennessee. M. S. thesis, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, 103 pp.