Robert E. Lewis World Species Flea (Siphonaptera) List
Citation
The Catalogue of Life Partnership: Robert E. Lewis World Species Flea (Siphonaptera) ListDescription
The Robert E. Lewis World Species Flea (Siphonaptera) List was originally a list of valid species compiled and maintained by the late Robert E. Lewis (16 th edition, 2009 was his last listing). During his tenure, he distributed these extremely valuable informal, unpublished texts to a limited number of flea specialists around the world. Following his death, the list was converted to an Excel file with sorting capabilities. After the initial conversion of the LWS, Michael Hastriter and Robert Bossard continued to maintain and record many changes in nomenclature, synonyms, and newly described taxa. Currently there are 19 recognized Siphonapteran families, 259 flea genera (252 extant and 7 fossils), 2,695 valid extant species (including subspecies), and 17 fossil species. This is the most comprehensive listing of valid Siphonapteran taxa. There are also 965 synonyms included. The database provides classification designations for Infraorders, Superfamilies, Families, Subfamilies, Tribes, Genera, Subgenera and Species. The LWS list will be also published in Flea News on an annual basis.Taxonomic Coverages
Fleas
Geographic Coverages
Global
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
Michael W. Hastritereditor
Brigham Young University
Provo
Utah
US
email: michaelhastriter@comcast.net
Robert L. Bossard
editor
Bossard Consulting
Salt Lake City
Utah
US
email: bossardtech@gmail.com
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8382-9508
Michael W. Hastriter
administrative point of contact
Brigham Young University
Provo
Utah
US
email: michaelhastriter@comcast.net