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A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF FLEA FROM TASMANIA (SIPHONAPTERA: PYGIOPSYLLIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

G. P. Holland
G. P. Holland
Affiliation:
Entomology Research Institute, Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa
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Abstract

Austropsylla brevipecten gen. et sp. nov. is described from a single female specimen collected on a potoroo or rat-kangaroo. The genus is closest, perhaps, to Choristopsylla Jord. & Roths., and brings to nine the number of genera of Pygiopsyllidae to be found in Australia.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 103 , Issue 1 , January 1971 , pp. 125 - 129
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1971

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