[Macrostylophora kinabaluae n. sp. (Insecta: Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae), a new flea from Sabah (Borneo, Eastern Malaysia)].
This species, known only by a single male, is described from Mount Kinabalu and thus is recorded from the same area as Macrostylophora borneensis (Jordan, 1926), teste Traub (1972). It is distinguished from its congeneric and characterized by the absence of eriged setae on the thorax and first abdominal tergits, as well as by the shape of terminal segments and the phallosom. Macrostylophora kinabaluae was found to parasitize the Sciurid rodent Callosciurus prevostii that is widespread throughout most areas in the Malaysian subregion.
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Laboratoire de Parasitologie et Zoologie appliquée, Faculté de Médecine, Rennes, France. jbeaucou@uni-rennes1.fr
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D000818:Animals; D001893:Borneo; D004175:Diptera / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D012727:Sex Characteristics