Megabothris asio (Baker)
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5170591 |
publication LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B7E405E4-1ED7-477F-926E-C8A6FDB7FB1D |
DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6489872 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EE4F8799-893B-EF22-FF41-D4DFADD0FBE7 |
treatment provided by |
Felipe |
scientific name |
Megabothris asio (Baker) |
status |
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Megabothris asio (Baker) View in CoL
Type host: Megascops asio (Linnaeus, 1758) from Norfolk Co., Massachusetts.
Deposition, host records, and locality: HWML 101658, M. ochrogaster /Station Grounds 2012; HWML 101811, 101812, 101813, and 101817, M. ochrogaster /Station Grounds 2013.
Remarks: This is a common flea of the meadow vole, M. pennsylvanicus , in eastern North America. Although this flea has been reported from M. ochrogaster in Illinois ( Verts 1961), this is not a common association, so these are important new records. Wilson (1961), collecting from M. pennsylvanicus , makes it clear that M. asio is a nest flea, rarely found in high numbers on the body of the host. Megabothris asio was the only flea collected from voles.
HWML |
Howard W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology |
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