UID:
almahu_9949161031102882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789047420750
Series Statement:
Fauna entomologica Scandinavica, v. 41
Content:
This book is the first comprehensive account on the flea fauna of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Totally 89 species/subspecies are treated of which 69 have been found in the region. The remainder are known from neighboring areas and may turn up. The introductory part gives a brief historical overview of the earliest literature on fleas and a more detailed account of the Scandinavian literature up to the present. This is followed by a discussion of flea-host associations in relation to distribution in a general and Scandinavian perspective. Other chapters deal with life history, medical importance, morphology and collecting/preservation of fleas, and are followed by a flea–host index. The systematic part, amply illustrated with Frans Smit’s outstanding line drawings, provides identification keys to adult fleas from family to subspecies. For each species/subspecies relevant available information on synonymy, identification, distribution, host relations and biology is given. The book concludes with a summary of the provincial distribution of fleas in Fennoscandia and Denmark, a bibliography and a taxonomic name index.
Note:
Map on front endpapers.
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Preliminary Material /
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Superfamily Hystrichopsylloidea /
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Superfamily Ceratophylloidea /
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Superfamily Vermipsylloidea /
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Superfamily Pulicoidea /
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Catalogue /
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Literature /
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Host-Flea Index /
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Taxonomic Index /
Additional Edition:
Print version: The fleas (Siphonaptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2007, ISBN 9789004151512
Language:
English
