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Ceratophyllus gallinae information


Ceratophyllus gallinae
Female hen flea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Siphonaptera
Family: Ceratophyllidae
Genus: Ceratophyllus
Species:
C. gallinae
Binomial name
Ceratophyllus gallinae
(Schrank, 1803)

Ceratophyllus gallinae, known as the hen flea in Europe or the European chicken flea elsewhere, is an ectoparasite of birds. This flea was first described by the German botanist and entomologist Franz von Paula Schrank in 1803.

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subgenus, Ceratophyllus. These fleas are estimated to occupy a range of 36,000,000 square kilometres (14,000,000 sq mi). The adult Ceratophyllus gallinae is...

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dubious distinction of having the largest number of bird fleas (Ceratophyllus gallinae) reported from a single nest, 5,754 fleas. A favourite nesting site...

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Common starling

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presumably due to its inability to remove vermin. The hen flea (Ceratophyllus gallinae) is the most common flea in their nests. The small, pale house-sparrow...

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Great tit

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described in 1981 from great tits in central Europe. The hen flea Ceratophyllus gallinae is exceedingly common in the nests of blue and great tits. It was...

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Atlantic puffin

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fleas found on the birds include Ceratophyllus borealis, Ceratophyllus gallinae, Ceratophyllus garei, Ceratophyllus vagabunda, and the common rabbit flea...

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Stoat

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Dasypsyllus gallinulae, Nosopsyllus fasciatus, Leptospylla segnis, Ceratophyllus gallinae, Parapsyllus n. nestoris, Amphipsylla kuznetzovi and Ctenopsyllus...

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Flea

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species, but can often feed but not reproduce on other species. Ceratophyllus gallinae affects poultry as well as wild birds. As well as the degree of...

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House sparrow

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Ixodes arboricola, and the most common flea on the house sparrow is Ceratophyllus gallinae. Dermanyssus blood-feeding mites are also common ectoparasites of...

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Cinereous tit

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roost in cavities such as those in cut bamboo. A species of flea Ceratophyllus gallinae has been recorded in their nests from India. Baker, ECS (1913)....

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Garden warbler

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rejected. External parasites of the garden warbler include the fleas Ceratophyllus gallinae and Dasypsyllus gallinulae and the mite Syringophilosis borini,...

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Hen flea

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Hen flea is a common name for several insects and may refer to: Ceratophyllus gallinae, also known as the European chicken flea Echidnophaga gallinacea...

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