Note on two new Flagellate Parasites in Fleas—Herpetomonas ctenophthalmi, n. sp., andCrithidia hystrighopsyllae, n. sp

1 September 1909

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Parasitology

Vol. 2 (3) , 288-296
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031182000001736

Abstract

There seems little reason to doubt that most blood-sucking invertebrates harbour in their digestive tract natural flagellate parasites, which have erroneously been described by various authors as part of the life-cycles of blood-parasites from vertebrates. Among arthropods such natural flagellates have now been observed in ticks, lice, bugs, mosquitoes, biting and non-biting flies, and fleas; and the list of such hosts steadily grows.

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A Critical Review of the Relation of Blood-sucking Invertebrates to the Life Cycles of the Trypanosomes of Vertebrates, with a Note on the Occurrence of a Species of Crithidia, C. ctenopthalmi, in the Alimentary Tract of Ctenopthalmus agyrtes, Heller
Parasitology, 1908