Arthropods infesting small mammals (Insectivora and Rodentia) near Cedar Point Biological Station in southwestern Nebraska
Author
Howell, Lindsey
Author
Jelden, Katelyn
Author
Rácz, Elizabeth
Author
Gardner, Scott L.
Author
Gettinger, Donald
text
Insecta Mundi
2016
2016-04-15
2016
478
1
16
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5170591
1942-1354
5170591
B7E405E4-1ED7-477F-926E-C8A6FDB7FB1D
Foxella ignota
(Baker)
Type
host:
unknown, from Story Co.,
Iowa
.
Deposition, host records, and locality:
HWML
101694, 101695, and 101696,
G. lutescens
/Ackley 2013;
HWML
101701,
G. lutescens
/Ackley 2013;
HWML
101709 and 101710,
G. lutescens
/Ackley 2013;
HWML
92037, 101739, 101740, 101741, 101742, 101743, and 101744,
G. lutescens
/Ackley 2013;
HWML
101753, 101754, and 101755,
G. lutescens
/Ackley 2013;
HWML
101769 and 101770,
G. lutescens
/Ackley 2013;
HWML
101771, 101772, 101773, 101774, 101775, 101776, 101777, 101778, 101779, 101780, 101781, 101782, 101783, and 101784,
G. lutescens
/Ackley 2013.
Remarks:
This flea is primarily an ectoparasite of the pocket gopher genera,
Geomys
and
Thomomys
. Although
Fox (1940)
indicated that
Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes
Baker
was the most common flea from gophers in the eastern
United States
, he noted that
F. ignota
was very common on these hosts in the western states.
Holdenried & Morlan (1956)
reported heavy infections of
F. ignota
on pocket gophers in northern
New Mexico
.
McAllister et al. (2013)
reported
F. ignota
from
G. lutescens
in northwestern
Oklahoma
. At CPBS,
F. ignota
was the only flea collected from
G. lutescens
.