Stephanocircidae is a family of
flea
Flea, the common name for the order (biology), order Siphonaptera, includes 2,500 species of small flightless insects that live as external parasites of mammals and birds. Fleas live by hematophagy, ingesting the blood of their hosts. Adult f ...
s native to
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...
and Australia, where they are found on
rodents
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 n ...
.
Genera
* Subfamily Craneopsyllinae
Wagner, 1939
** Tribe Barreropsyllini
Jordan, 1953
*** Genus ''
Barreropsylla''
Jordan, 1953
** Tribe Craneopsyllini
Wagner, 1939
*** Genus ''
Cleopsylla''
Rothschild, 1914
*** Genus ''
Craneopsylla''
Rothschild, 1911
*** Genus ''
Nonnapsylla''
Wagner, 1938
*** Genus ''
Plocopsylla''
Jordan, 1931
*** Genus ''
Sphinctopsylla''
Jordan, 1931
*** Genus ''
Tiarapsylla''
Wagner, 1937
* Subfamily Stephanocircinae
Wagner, 1928
** Genus ''
Coronapsylla''
Traub et Dunnet, 1973
** Genus ''
Stephanocircus''
Skuse, 1893
References
Family STEPHANOCIRCIDOIDEA – FLEAS classification''zin.ru''
Fleas
Insects of South America
Insect families
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