Fauna and host-parasite associations of fleas (Siphonaptera) in different zoogeographical regions of the World. I

摘要

Characteristics of the faunas and host-parasite associations of fleas of the Indo-Malayan, Afrotropical, Australian, Nearctic, and Neotropical Regions have been studied using PARHOST1 information analytical system on the World flea fauna. 66 types of the species ranges have been distinguished and classified in 20 groups. The following are main host groups for the species of fleas endemic of the particular zoogeographical regions: in the Nearctic, rodents (voles and New World mice and rats, pocket gophers and heteromyids), insectivores and lagomorphs; in the Netropical Region, New World mice and rats and cavimorph rodents, American possums and opossum rats; in the Afro tropical Region, rodent (true mice, bamboo rats, African mole-rats), hyraxes, and elephant-shrews; in the Indo-Malayan Region, rodents (true mice and squirrels), marsupiials (predatory marsupials, ringtails, New Guinea bandicoots and Queensland ringtails), in Australian Region, marsupials (predatory marsupials, bandicoots, phalangers, ringtailed phalangers, pigmy possums, and wombats) and rodents (true mice).