BioImages (UK) BIOTA (living things) Eukaryota (eukaryotes) ANIMALIA (animals) EUMETAZOA (metazoans) BILATERIA (bilaterally symmetrical animals) PROTOSTOMIA (protostomes) ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders) ARTHROPODA (arthropods) HEXAPODA (hexapods) INSECTA (insects) PTERYGOTA (winged insects) Neoptera (an infraclass of insects) Endopterygota (insects with wings developing internally) SIPHONAPTERA (fleas) CERATOPHYLLIDAE (a family of fleas) Nosopsyllus fasciatus (Rat Flea) Record Nosopsyllus fasciatus is also a member of: Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK) Nosopsyllus fasciatus (Bosc, 1800) (Rat Flea) Date: 12 July 2003 OS grid ref: SU56 Lat/Lon: 51° 20' N, 1° 10' W Location: Vice County: Berks, VC22, England Voucher: 12/07/2003[E] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) Stage or state: Imago Record Summary: 3 females and 1 male from debris in rat's nest in compost heap Associated organism: in nest of Rattus norvegicus Identification Notes: Pronotal comb: 17 teeth. Genal comb: absent. Female: Bursa copulatrix is spiral and posterior margin of Sternum VII is straight. Male: Images macro-photographs microscope photographs << Click on a thumbnail

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