Lagaropsylla consularis 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 : 14

Taxon classification Animalia Siphonaptera Ischnopsyllidae

Lagaropsylla consularis Smit, 1957

Lagaropsylla consularis Smit, 1957: 167, 1958: 242; Marcus 1961: 201; Smit 1968: 13; Hubbard 1969: 55; Ribeiro 1974: 143; Beaucournu and Fain 1983: 454-455; Beaucournu and Guiguen 1991: 129; Beaucournu and Fontenille 1993: 80; Beaucournu and Kock 1994b: 199, 1996: 164; Beaucournu 2004: 206; Lewis 2006: 48.

Remarks.

Lagaropsylla consularis has been reported previously in Madagascar and is among the more common species in the genus, primarily parasitizing Chaerephon pumilus . Chaerephon pumilus has a broad range from Yemen to Senegal, south to South Africa and Madagascar. Neoromicia somalicus (Thomas, 1901) from which Lagaropsylla consularis was collected in Kenya, is also found in Madagascar. Reported primarily on molossid bats, Lagaropsylla consularis has also been documented on hipposiderid and vespertilionid bats ( Beaucournu 2004 and Smit 1957).

Material examined

(BYUC). Kenya: Rift Valley, Maji Moto, Neoromicia somalicus (USNM-436733), 23 XIII 1968, BJH-5592, 2♂, 2♀. Madagascar, Toamasina Province: Beforona, Bureau de Poste (18°53'21"S, 48°34'39"E), 560 m, Chaerephon pumilus ♂ (RHF-84), 21 IX 2004, FHR, 1♂, 1♀; same data except Anjiro village (18°53'40.31"S, 47°58'24.06"E), Chaerephon pumilis ♂ (RHF-502), 5 II 2005, 1♂, 1♀.