Taxonomy, in New transitional fleas from China highlighting diversity of Early Cretaceous ectoparasitic insects

T. P. Gao, C. K. Shih, A. Rasnitsyn, and D. Ren

2013

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Current Biology 23:1261-1266

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Taxa discussed in this work:

• Saurophthiridae
• Saurophthirus exquisitus

Taxonomy:

• Saurophthiridae belongs to Siphonaptera - Gao et al. (2013)
• Saurophthirus belongs to Saurophthiridae - Gao et al. (2013)
• Saurophthirus exquisitus belongs to Saurophthirus - Gao et al. (2013)