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NOTES ON THE SIPHONAPTERA OF NEW BRUNSWICK1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

N. R. Brown*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Forestry, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Abstract

A complete list of the 29 species of fleas known from New Brunswick is presented, including several species not previously recorded and one previously undescribed species. New records are listed, with host data, for most of the species.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1968

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Footnotes

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Contribution No. 6.

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