The  flea collection of the Museum of Zoology, Sapienza University of Rome (Insecta: Siphonaptera)

Noemi Di Lorenzo; Maurizio Mei; Aleida Ascenzi; Pierfilippo Cerretti; Claudio Chimenti; Davide Badano

doi:10.13133/2284-4880/1623

The flea collection of the Museum of Zoology, Sapienza University of Rome (Insecta: Siphonaptera)

Authors

Noemi Di Lorenzo
Maurizio Mei
Aleida Ascenzi
Pierfilippo Cerretti
Claudio Chimenti
Davide Badano Department of Life Sciences, University of Siena

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13133/2284-4880/1623

Keywords:

digitalization, entomological collection, ectoparasites, faunal records, blood-sucking insects

Abstract

The Museum of Zoology of Sapienza University of Rome (MZUR) houses a collection of fleas encompassing about 1300 specimens, representing 132 species and 10 families. Most of these specimens were collected in Italy and neighboring countries. The flea collection has been digitalized and is now accessible through a freely available dataset, which includes information from the labels of each preserved specimen. Additionally, an overview of the collection, a checklist of the preserved taxa and photos of selected specimens are provided.

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Habitus of a female of Nosopsyllus fasciatus from Italy, Rome.

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Published

2024-12-10

How to Cite

Di Lorenzo, N., Mei, M., Ascenzi, A., Cerretti, P., Chimenti, C. and Badano, D. (2024) “The flea collection of the Museum of Zoology, Sapienza University of Rome (Insecta: Siphonaptera)”, Fragmenta entomologica, 56(2), pp. 139–160. doi: 10.13133/2284-4880/1623.