[Two new species of fleas from Chile and Argentina(Insecta-Siphonaptera: Stephanocircidae and Rhopalopsyllidae) and raising of a new sub-genus of Plocopsylla Jordan, 1931].
A new subgenus of Plocopsylla is raised, Schrammapsylla Beaucournu and Ménier from the entire group B of Schramm & Lewis, 1988 and two new fleas from Chile and Argentina are described: Plocopsylla (S.) muruai n. sp. Beaucournu and Gallardo and Ectinorus (E.) mimacydis n. sp. Beaucournu and Gallardo. These two taxa are only known by the male sex.
Beaucournu
J C
JC
Laboratoire de parasitologie, Faculté de médecine, Avenue du Professeur Léon Bernard, F-35043 Rennes cedex, France. jbeaucou@univ-rennes1.fr
Gallardo
M H
MH
Ménier
K
K
D000818:Animals; D001118:Argentina; D002677:Chile; D008297:Male; D010802:Phylogeny; D005423:Siphonaptera / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*