Author | Whitaker, A.P. |
Year | 2007 |
Title | Fleas (Siphonaptera) |
ISBN | 978 0 90154 685 2 |
Series | Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects |
Type | Book/Report |
How Complete | All the British species known at the time |
Source | Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, 1, Part 16, 2nd edition, 178pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London |
Illustrations | Line drawings accompany the text |
Review (by Malcolm Storey) | Well illustrated keys to species, followed by species accounts. Each species acount includes line-drawings of parts important for identification, and is followed by a (sometimes long) list of host records grouped by modern county. |
Examine | Compound Microscope |
Specimen Preparation | Specimens need to be macerated in KOH and cleared to see internal structures |
Website url | www.royensoc.co.uk/publications/index.htm |
Notes & Purpose | Status | Taxon | English | Classification |
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For identification | Current | SIPHONAPTERA | fleas | Animalia |
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