10 Fleas of Eastern United States 



Echidnophaga gallinacea (Westwood) 



(Plate II) 



1875 Sarcopsyllus gallinaceus Westwood, Ent. Mo. Mag., 11:246. 

 1890 Pulex pallulorum Johnson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, 1: 59. 



1895 Sarcopsylla gallinacea Baker, Can. Ent., 27:21. 



1896 Sarcopsylla gallinacea Osborn, United States Dept. Agric. Div. Ent., 

 Bull. 5 (n.s.), p. 144, figs. 76, 77. 



1904 Xestopsylla gallinacea Baker, Proc. United States Nat. Mus., 27:375. 



1905 Argopsylla gallinacea Baker, Proc. United States Nat. Mus., 29:138. 



1906 Echidnophaga gallinacea Jordan and Rothschild, Liverpool Univ., 

 Thompson Yates and Johnson Lab. Rep. 7 (n.s.), p. 52. 



1907 Xestopsylla gallinacea Herrick, Jour. Econ. Ent., 1:355. 



1910 Echidnophaga gallinacea Banks, United States Public Health Mar. 

 Hosp. Ser., Bull. 30: 77. 



1914 Echidnophaga gallinacea C. Fox, United States Public Health Hyg. 

 Lab., Bull. 97, PI. XVI, fig. 29; PI. XXII, fig. 72. 



1915 Echidnophaga gallinacea Illingworth, Jour. Econ. Ent., 8:492. 



1925 Echidnophaga gallinacea C. Fox, Insects and Disease of Man, p. 131, 

 fig. 59. 



1926 Echidnophaga gallinacea Parman, Jour. Econ. Ent., 19: 644. 



1928 Echidnophaga gallinacea Stewart, Cornell Univ. Agric. Exp. Sta., 

 Mem. 101, p. 868. 



1929 Echidnophaga gallinacea Ewing, Manual External Parasites, p. 179, 

 fig. 94. 



1929 Echidnophaga gallinacea Hasseltine, United States Public Health 



Ser., Rep. 44: 583. 

 1929 Echidnophaga gallinacea Jordan, Nov. Zool., 35: 176. 



1931 Echidnophaga gallinacea C. Fox, United States Public Health Ser., 

 Rep. 46:574. 



1932 Echidnophaga gallinacea Stewart, Jour. Econ. Ent., 25: 164. 



1933 Echidnophaga gallinacea Stewart, Jour. New York Ent. Soc, 41:253. 



1934 Echidnophaga gallinacea Shaftesbury, Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., 

 49:248. 



1935 Echidnophaga gallinacea Vogel and Cadwallader, United States Pub- 

 lic Health Ser., Rep. 50:1953. 



1937 Echidnophaga gallinacea Jordan, Nov. Zool., 40:283. 



Male. Preantennal region of the head with but two bristles 

 which comprise the frontal row. Eye heavily pigmented, oval in 

 shape. Maxilla short and broad, triangular in shape. Mandibles 

 wide and prominent, deeply serrated (Plate II, fig. 4) . Second 

 segment of the antenna with three or four long bristles, some 

 of which are about as long as the third antennal segment. Pro- 

 notum and mesonotum each with a single row of long bristles. 

 Each abdominal tergite armed with at least one long bristle in 

 the dorsal region. Modified segments: Clasper with two 

 processes, one long with a number of bristles along the 

 anterior margin, the other much smaller and narrower. Mov- 



