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 irritans bahiensis Cunha, 1914

Pulex irritans fulvus Ioff, 1929

Pulex orientalis Kishida, 1939

Pulex vulgaris De Geer, 1778

Homonyms

Pulex irritans Linnaeus, 1758

Common names

Menneskeloppe in Danish

Menschenfloh in German

Menschenfloh in German

blokha in Russian

human flea in English

mensenvlo in Dutch

puce de l'homme in French

人蚤 in language.

Mensenvlo in Dutch

människoloppa in Swedish

Bibliographic References

1. Brinck-Lindroth, F.G.A.M. (2007) The fleas (Siphonaptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 41, 185 pp.
2. Hopkins G.H.E., Rothschild M. (1953) An illustrated catalogue of the Rothschild collection of fleas (Siphonaptera) in the British Museum
3. 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)