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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
Series 4, Volume 64, Supplement 1 
Family Tabanidae (horseflies) 
Undetermined 
Records: Inyo Co.: Old Spanish Trail Cave. Shasta Co.: Rusty Cave. 
Family Tephritidae (fruit flies) 
Euarestoides acutangula (Thomson) 
Records: San Bernardino Co.: Mitchell Caverns. 
Bibliography: Graening (2010). 
Neaspilota viridescens Quisenberry 
Records: San Bernardino Co.: Mitchell Caverns. 
Bibliography: Graening (2010). 
Trupanea bisetosa (Coquillett) 
Records: San Bernardino Co.: Mitchell Caverns. 
Bibliography: Graening (2010). 
Trupanea jonesi Curran 
Records: San Bernardino Co.: Mitchell Caverns. 
Bibliography: Graening (2010). 
Trupanea pseudovicina Hering 
Records: San Bernardino Co.: Mitchell Caverns. 
Bibliography: Graening (2010). 
ORDER SIPHONAPTERA (fleas) 
Undetermined 
Records: Amador Co.: Hummingbird Cave. Calaveras Co.: Wool Hollow Cave. Inyo Co.: unnamed lava tubes near 
Crater Mountain; Poleta Cave. Plumas Co.: Juniper Cave. San Bernardino Co.: Egg Cave; Mitchell Caverns. Siskiyou 
Co.: Arch Cave No. 2; Catacombs Cave; Coda Cave; Cox Ice Cave; Fern Cave; Merrill Ice Cave; Planetary Dairy Cave; 
Spider Cave; Valentine Cave. Tulare Co.: Lost Soldier’s Cave. 
Comment: At least 16 species of flea have been collected from packrats and mice inhabiting caves and crevices in Lava 
Beds National Monument. They are vectors of the plague bacillus, Pasturella pestis (Lehman and Neumann). Stark and Kin¬ 
ney (1969) and Nelson and Smith (1976) studied the ecological effects of a plague epizootic on these rodents. 
Bibhography: Aalbu (1990); Broeckel, B. (1990, 1991b); Graening (2010); Suggett (1982); Taylor and Krejca (2006). 
Family Ceratophyllidae (bird and rodent fleas) 
Diamanus montanus (Baker) (parasite) 
Records: Siskiyou Co.: caves in Lava Beds National Monument; Planetary Dairy Cave. 
Comment: This species was taken from a Neotoma cinerea nest in Planetary Dairy Cave and from the nests and body of 
Neotoma cinerea in Lava Beds National Monument. 
Bibhography: Nelson and Smith (1976); Stark and Kinney (1969); Suggett (1982). 
Malaraeus sp. (parasite) 
Record: Siskiyou Co.: caves in Lava Beds National Monument. 
Comment: This flea was taken from nest of Neotoma cinerea in 1969 and from N. cinerea and Peromyscus crinitus in 1976. 
Bibhography: Nelson and Smith (1976); Stark and Kinney (1969). 
Malaraeus bitterrootensis (Dunn) (parasite) 
Record: Siskiyou Co.: caves in Lava Beds National Monument. 
Comment: This species was taken from Neotoma cinerea. 
Bibhography: Nelson and Smith (1976). 
Malaraeus sinomus (Jordan) (parasite) 
Record: Siskiyou Co.: caves in Lava Beds National Monument. 
Comment: This species was taken from Peromyscus crinitus. 
Bibhography: Nelson and Smith (1976). 
