16 Fleas of Eastern United States 



XENOPSYLLA GLINKIEWICZ 

 Xenopsylla Glinkiewicz, 1907, Sitzber. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 116: 385. 

 Genotype: Pulex cheopis Rothschild 



No genal or pronotal ctenidium present. Ocular bristle situ- 

 ated above the eye. Mesosternite broad, divided by a vertical, 

 rodlike sclerotization. Posterior margin of the head with sev- 

 eral bristles. 



This genus is represented in the East by a single species, the 

 oriental rat flea, which is an important transmitter of several 

 diseases. 



Xenopsylla cheopis (Rothschild) 



(Plate V, figs. 16, 18, 20) 



1903 Pulex cheopis Rothschild, Ent. Mo. Mag. (2nd ser.), 14:85, PI. I, figs. 

 3, 9; PI. II, figs. 12, 19. 



1908 Loemopsylla cheopis Rothschild, Parasitology, 1:42, PI. I; PI. II, fig. 8; 

 PI. IV, fig. 8; PI. VI, fig. 1. 



1909 Xenopsylla cheopis Rothschild, Nov. Zool., 16: 132. 



1910 Loemopsylla cheopis C. Fox, United States Public Health and Mar. 

 Hosp. Ser., Bull. 30, p. 138, PI. Ill, figs. 1-4. 



1914 Xenopsylla cheopis C. Fox, United States Public Health Hyg. Lab., 



Bull. 97, PI. XIV, fig. 22; PI. XXI, fig. 62. 

 1925 Xenopsylla cheopis Wallace, Dept. Conser. Indiana, Div. Ent. Rep., 



p. 14. 

 1925 Xenopsylla cheopis C. Fox, United States Public Health Ser., Rep. 



40: 1917. 

 1925 Xenopsylla cheopis C. Fox, Insects and Disease of Man, p. 133, figs. 



61, 62. 



1928 Xenopsylla cheopis Stewart, Cornell Univ. Agric. Exo. Sta., Mem. 

 101, p. 868. 



1929 Xenopsylla cheopis Hasseltine, United States Public Health Ser., Rep. 

 44:583. 



1929 Xenopsylla cheopis Jordan, Nov. Zool., 35: 176. 



1929 Xenopsylla cheopis Ewing, Manual External Parasites, p. 163. fig. 90. 



1933 Xenopsylla cheopis Stewart, Jour. New York Ent. Soc, 41:254. 



1934 Xenopsylla cheopis Shaftesbury, Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc, 

 49: 249. 



1934 Xenopsylla cheopis Roudabush and Becker, Science, 80:97. 



1935 Xenopsylla cheopis Vogel and Cadwallader, United States Public 

 Health Ser., Rep. 50: 1953. 



1936 Xenopsylla cheopis Riley, Journal-Lancet, 56:591. 



1938 Xenopsylla cheopis Ewing and Fox, Science, 88: 427. 



1939 Xenopsylla cheopis Roudabush, Science, 89:79. 



Male. Preantennal region of the head with but two widely 

 separated bristles, one of which is located above the eye, while 



