Records of fleas (Siphonaptera) from Delaware

Ashley C. Kennedy; Wil S. Winter; Alfred L. Gardner; Neal Woodman; Scarlet A. Shifflett; Sierra Redus; Jeffrey R. Newcomer; Ralph P. Eckerlin

doi:10.1093/jme/tjae069

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Ashley C. Kennedyhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9555-8768,^1,* Wil S. Winterhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4374-2891,^1,2 Alfred L. Gardner,³ Neal Woodmanhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2689-7373,^3,4 Scarlet A. Shifflett,² Sierra Redus,¹ Jeffrey R. Newcomer,⁵ Ralph P. Eckerlin^6,7,**

¹Mosquito Control Section, Division of Fish and Wildlife, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, Newark, DE 19702, USA
²Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
³Division of Mammals, MRC 108, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013, USA
⁴Population Conservation Genetics Group, USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center at the Patuxent Research Reserve, Laurel, MD 20708, USA
⁵Wildlife Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Annapolis, MD 21409, USA
⁶Natural Sciences Division, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, VA 22003, USA
⁷Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013, USA

^*Corresponding author, mail: ashley.kennedy@delaware.gov
^**Deceased.

Abstract

We present an annotated checklist of fleas (Siphonaptera) known to occur in the state of Delaware based on an examination of Siphonaptera collections at the University of Delaware and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, as well as new specimens of fleas we collected from wildlife, other hosts, and tick flags. We review published records and compile them herein with our new records, which include 3 species previously unreported from Delaware. With these additions, there are now 18 flea species from 19 avian and mammalian hosts documented from Delaware.

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Ashley C. Kennedy, Wil S. Winter, Alfred L. Gardner, Neal Woodman, Scarlet A. Shifflett, Sierra Redus, Jeffrey R. Newcomer, and Ralph P. Eckerlin "Records of fleas (Siphonaptera) from Delaware," Journal of Medical Entomology 61(4), 959-964, (17 May 2024). https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjae069

Received: 2 February 2024; Accepted: 7 May 2024; Published: 17 May 2024