Lagaropsylla hoogstraali Smit, 1957

Hastriter, Michael W., 2016, Description of two new species of bat fleas of the genus Araeopsylla (Siphonaptera) from Kenya and Madagascar with notes on miscellaneous bat fleas, ZooKeys 572, pp. 7-21 : 15

Taxon classification Animalia Siphonaptera Ischnopsyllidae

Lagaropsylla hoogstraali Smit, 1957

Lagaropsylla hoogstraali Smit, 1957: 171-172, 1964: 44.

Lagaropsylla traubi Klein, 1967: 127-131; Smit and Wright 1978: 41; Lewis and Lewis 1990: 156. (Synonym).

Lagaropsylla hoogstraali Ribeiro, 1974: 144; Beaucournu and Fain 1983: 455; Beaucournu and Fontenille 1993: 79-80; Beaucournu 2004: 207; Lewis 2006: 48.

Remarks.

Lagaropsylla hoogstraali has been documented in Angola, Rwanda, Sudan, Zaire and Madagascar. Although there are few collections of this flea, most have been collected from Mops midas (Sundevall, 1843), a broadly distributed bat in continental Africa and Madagascar. Ratrimomanarivo et al. (2007) concluded that the subspecific populations of Mops midas in continental Africa and Madagascar were invalid. The flea Lagaropsylla hoogstraali occurring on Mops midas in both regions would support the conclusions of Ratrimomanarivo et al. (2007).

Material examined

(BYUC). Madagascar, Mahajanga Province: Ambondromamy, Cite de la Gendarmerie (16°26'03"S, 47°09'26"E), 50 m, Mops midas miarensis = Mops midas ♀ (RHF-823), 13 III 2005, FHR, 1♂; same data except Mops midas ♂ (RHF-824), 1♂; and Mops midas ♂ (RHF-825), 1♀. Toliara Province: Sakaraha, EPP (22°54'26"S, 44°31'48"E). 480 m, Mops midas ♂ (RHF-262), 20 X 2004, FHR, 1♀.