''Oropsylla'' is a genus of
flea
Flea, the common name for the order (biology), order Siphonaptera, includes 2,500 species of small flightless insects that live as external parasites of mammals and birds. Fleas live by hematophagy, ingesting the blood of their hosts. Adult f ...
s, most of which are
ectoparasite
Parasitism is a Symbiosis, close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives (at least some of the time) on or inside another organism, the Host (biology), host, causing it some harm, and is Adaptation, adapted str ...
s of
rodent
Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the Order (biology), order Rodentia ( ), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and Mandible, lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal specie ...
s and other mammals.
Species
* ''
Oropsylla alaskensis''
* ''
Oropsylla arctomys''
* ''
Oropsylla bruneri''
* ''
Oropsylla eatoni''
* ''
Oropsylla hirsuta''
* ''
Oropsylla idahoensis''
* ''
Oropsylla ilovaiskii''
* ''
Oropsylla labis''
* ''
Oropsylla montana'', this flea is of note for its role in transmitting ''
Yersinia pestis
''Yersinia pestis'' (''Y. pestis''; formerly ''Pasteurella pestis'') is a Gram-negative bacteria, gram-negative, non-motile bacteria, non-motile, coccobacillus Bacteria, bacterium without Endospore, spores. It is related to pathogens ''Yer ...
'' to native rodents.
* ''
Oropsylla oregonensis''
* ''
Oropsylla rupestris''
* ''
Oropsylla silantiewi''
* ''
Oropsylla tapina''
* ''
Oropsylla tuberculata''
* ''
Oropsylla washingtonensis''
References
Siphonaptera genera
Ceratophyllidae
Parasitic arthropods of mammals
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