[Flea fauna and ecology of jerboas in the southern Balkhash region (Aphaniptera)].
22 species of fleas have been found on five species of jerboa in southern Pribalkhashje. Of them 8 species are parasites of jerboa, 13 -- of gerbils and one -- of birds. Most abundant are three species of fleas of jerboa: M. lenis, M. eucta and O. volgensis. Of gerbils' fleas representatives of the genus Xenopsylla were dominant on jerboa. The greatest indices of abundance have been reported for A. severtzovi, A. elator, A. acontion. The gerbils' fleas are more abundant on D. sagitta than on the other species.
D000818:Animals; D007623:Kazakhstan; D011156:Population Density; D012377:Rodentia / Q000469:parasitology*; D012621:Seasons; D005423:Siphonaptera / Q000145:classification*
K faune i ékologii blokh tushkanchikov Iuzhnogo Pribalkhash'ia (Aphaniptera).