Epitedia cavernicola Traub

Reeves, Will K., Durden, Lance A., Ritzi, Christopher M., Beckham, Katy R., Super, Paul E & Oconnor, Barry M., 2007, Ectoparasites and other ectosymbiotic arthropods of vertebrates in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA, Zootaxa 1392, pp. 31-68 : 41

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.273680
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1BA23B6E-F96B-495C-B0C5-0AC99413D0C3
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6243911
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E5278780-FFE7-FFC3-FF3B-5803FB87FB3A
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Epitedia cavernicola Traub
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Epitedia cavernicola Traub View in CoL

Ex Neotoma magister (Allegheny woodrat) nest: 5M, 7F, TN, Blount Co., the Sinks, 17 Oct. 1949, D. W. Pfitzer (Pfitzer 1950, Benton 1980, Durden & Kollars 1997).

This nidicolous (nestassociated) flea is a parasite of woodrats in the eastern U.S. and is typically collected during the cooler months (Durden & Kollars 1997, Durden et al. 1997b).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Siphonaptera
Family	Hystrichopsyllidae
Genus	Epitedia

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