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A Note on some External Characters of Larvae of Xenopsylla cheopis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

J. R. Henderson
J. R. Henderson
Affiliation:
From the Department of Zoology, University of Edinburgh.
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Extract

Larvae of Xenopsylla cheopis, which had been preserved at various dates from the first to seventeenth day after hatching, were placed at my disposal by Professor J. H. Ashworth. They were mounted for examination in excavated slides in carbol alcohol.

Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , April 1928 , pp. 115 - 118
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1928

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References

1 The larvae were sent to Prof. Ashworth in 1909 from the Parel Laboratory, Bombay, by the late Surgeon-General W. B. Bannerman, I.M.S.

2 Bacot, A. W. and Ridewood, W. G. (1914). Observations on the Larvae of Fleas. Parasitoloyy, 7, 157–175.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

1 There are no spiracles on the second and third thoracic segments of the larva.