siphonapteran

siphonapteran

English

A siphonapteran (cat flea)

Etymology

Siphonaptera +‎ -an

Adjective

siphonapteran (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the order Siphonaptera of fleas.

Noun

siphonapteran (plural siphonapterans)

1. Any species of the order Siphonaptera, a flea.
   • 1987, Barrie Gillean Molyneux Jamieson, The Ultrastructure and Phylogeny of Insect Spermatozoa, page 206,

     Absence of peripheral singlets, though with varying numbers of central singlets, is seen not only in mecopterans and siphonapterans but also in mycetophilid dipterans, and trichopterans.

   • 1998, Drion G. Boucias, Jacquelyn C. Pendland, Principles of Insect Pathology, page 396,

     Members of the genus Blastocrithidia are common pathogens of dipterans, hemipterans, and siphonapterans.

   • 2006, Robert Wynn Jones, Applied Palaeontology, page 174,

     The last remaining group, the siphonapterans or fleas, appeared in the Cenozoic, coincident with the radiation of the mammals that they parasitise.