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) HISTRICHOPSYLLIDAE (a family of mammal fleas) Hystrichopsylla talpae talpae (Mole Flea) Record Hystrichopsylla talpae talpae is also a member of: Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK) Hystrichopsylla talpae talpae (Curtis, 1826) (Mole Flea) Date: 16 March 2004 (Date may be unnatural as specimen was cultured, reared, grown or otherwise kept in captivity) OS grid ref: SU56 Lat/Lon: 51° 20' N, 1° 10' W Location: Vice County: Berks, VC22, England Voucher: 16/03/2004[A] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) Stage or state: Male imago Record Summary: large flea from nest in plastic compost bin collected 29 Feb 04 Associated organism: in nest Capture method: nest stored and searched Identification Notes: Very large blind flea with well-developed genal and pronotal comb, and further combs on TII, TIII, TIV. Images standard photographs and close-ups macro-photographs microscope photographs << Click on a thumbnail

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