A description of four new species of fleas (Insecta, Siphonaptera) from Angola, Ethiopia, Papua New Guinea, and Peru
Author
Hastriter, Michael
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, 290 MLBM, P. O. Box 20200, Provo, UT 84606, U. S. A., Provo, United States of America
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Aphropsylla wollastoni
Rothschild
(
Figs. 4
,
9
,
18
)
Ctenocephalus wollastoni
Rothschild. 1908. Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, 44:76-79
.
Aphropsylla wollastoni
Jordan
. 1932:292-293
;
Hopkins. 1947:152
;
Hopkins and Roth- schild. 1953:133
;
Cheetham. 1988: 102
;
Beaucournu. 2004:190
.
Material
Examined.
Lectotype
and
paralectotype
♁♁,
Uganda
:
Mubuku Valley
[̴
0°21’N
,
30°02’E
], E. side of
Rwenzori
[Range],
1830 m
elev., ex. “a mouse”,
10 III 1906
,
A.F.R. Wollaston
(BMNH)
.
Remarks
.
Rothschild (1908)
described
A. wollastoni
from three males from the Rwenzori,
Uganda
. Th e female is not described and additional records, other than the
type
series, have never been reported. Th e host of this flea remains to be determined. Future collections might well be directed from bird nests of finches (family
Fringillidae
) at or near the
type
locality.