''Oropsylla'' is a genus of
flea
Flea, the common name for the order Siphonaptera, includes 2,500 species of small flightless insects that live as external parasites of mammals and birds. Fleas live by ingesting the blood of their hosts. Adult fleas grow to about long, a ...
s, most of which are
ectoparasite
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has ...
s of
rodent
Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia (), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal species are rodents. They are na ...
s and other mammals.
Species
* ''
Oropsylla alaskensis''
* ''
Oropsylla arctomys''
* ''
Oropsylla bruneri''
* ''
Oropsylla eatoni''
* ''
Oropsylla hirsuta''
* ''
Oropsylla idahoensis''
* ''
Oropsylla ilovaiskii''
* ''
Oropsylla labis''
* ''
Oropsylla montana''
* ''
Oropsylla oregonensis''
* ''
Oropsylla rupestris''
* ''
Oropsylla silantiewi''
* ''
Oropsylla tapina''
* ''
Oropsylla tuberculata''
* ''
Oropsylla washingtonensis''
References
Siphonaptera genera
Ceratophyllidae
Parasitic arthropods of mammals
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