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                    CLASSIFICATION OF SIPHONAPTERA

                                                     (Contacts)

 

 

         Families in Green color                                                                  Siphonaptera Details

 

Insecta:  Holometabola

 

  SIPHONAPTERA

 

  Infraorder:  Pulicomorpha

    Superfamily:  Pulicoidea

 

      Hectopsyllidae – sticktight and chigoe fleas

      Pulicidae – common fleas

 

    Superfamily:  Malacopsylloidea

 

      Malacopsyllidae

      Rhopalopsyllidae – hosts

      Vermipsyllidae – hosts: carnivores

 

    Superfamily:  Coptopsylloidea

 

      Coptopsyllidae

 

    Superfamily:  Ancistropsylloidea

 

      Ancistropsyllidae

 

 

Infraorder:  Pygiopsyllomorpha

  Superfamily:  Pygiopsylloidea

 

    Lycopsyllidae

    Pygiopsyllidae

    Stivaliidae

 

Infraorder:  Hystrichopsyllomorpha

  Superfamily:  Hystrichopsylloidea

 

    Hystrichopsyllidae – hosts: rats and mice.

          Incl. Ctenopsyllidae, Amphipsyllidae

 

    Chimaeropsyllidae

 

  Superfamily:  Macropsylloidea

 

    Macropsyllidae

 

  Superfamily:  Stephanocircidoidea

 

    Stephanocircidae

 

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Details of Insect Taxonomic Groups

 

          Examples of beneficial species occur in almost every insect order, and considerable information on morphology and habits has been assembled.  Therefore, the principal groups of insect parasitoids and predators provide details that refer to the entire class Insecta.  These details are available at <taxnames.htm>.