Pulex irritans Linnaeus, 1758
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Linnæus, Carolus. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae. Vol. Tomus I, Editio decima, reformata: i-ii, 1-824.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Siphonaptera
- family
- Pulicidae
- genus
- Pulex
- species
- Pulex irritans
Name
- Synonyms
- Pulex conepati Cunha, 1914
- Pulex fulvus Ioff, 1929
- Pulex hominis Dugès, 1832
- Pulex irritans bahiensis Cunha, 1914
- Pulex irritans fulvus Ioff, 1929
- Pulex orientalis Kishida, 1939
- Pulex vulgaris DeGeer, 1778
- Homonyms
- Pulex irritans Linnaeus, 1758
- Common names
- Human Flea in English
- Human flea in English
- Human flea in English
- Menneskeloppe in Danish
- Menschenfloh in German
- Menschenfloh in German
- Puce de l'homme in French
- human flea in English
- ihmiskirppu in Finnish
- mensenvlo in Dutch
- puce de l'homme in French
- Human Flea in English
- Mensenvlo in Dutch
- menneskeloppe in Norwegian Bokmål
- menneskjeloppe in Nynorsk, Norwegian
- människoloppa in Swedish
- flea in English
Bibliographic References
- Brinck-Lindroth & Smit (2007) The fleas (Siphonaptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark.
- International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Direction 64 Addition to the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology (a) of the specific names of nineteen species belonging to the class Insecta, each of which is the type species of a genus, the name of which was placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology in the period up to the end of 1936 and (B) of the specific names of three species belonging to the same class which are currently treated as senior Subjective synonyms of the names of such species.Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1E, 61-74 (1957)
- Nishida (2002), http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pdf/tr22.pdf