@article{cc4ac55477304e7ab80fee2194364367,
title = "Fleas of the genus Neotyphloceras associated with rodents from Bolivia: new host and distributional records, description of a new species and remarks on the morphology of Neotyphloceras rosenbergi",
abstract = "The flea genus Neotyphloceras Rothschild (Siphonaptera: Ctenophthalmidae) includes five species and two subspecies distributed from Venezuela to southern Chile and Argentina. Only Neotyphloceras crassispina hemisus Jordan has been registered in Bolivia. The present study examines species of Neotyphloceras collected in Bolivian localities in the Departments of La Paz, Cochabamba and Tarija, and describes the morphology of the modified abdominal segments in males and females of Neotyphloceras rosenbergi Rothschild on the basis of type material and specimens collected from Tarija. A new species, Neotyphloceras boliviensis n. sp., is described and new host associations are reported for N. rosenbergi, Neotyphloceras crassispina crassispina and N. crassispina hemisus. Neotyphloceras c. crassispina and N. rosenbergi are reported for the first time in Bolivia. The distribution of N. rosenbergi is extended 1600 km to the south. Given the potential medical and veterinary significance of fleas as disease vectors, and considering that in the Departments of La Paz and Tarija several human cases of plague have been reported, and species of flea have been identified as main vectors of these diseases, the new records of fleas in Bolivia reported herein may be useful for epidemiological studies on flea-borne diseases.",
keywords = "Andean region, Ctenophthalmidae, Neotyphloceratini, Siphonaptera",
author = "J. Sanchez and M. Lareschi and J. Salazar-Bravo and Gardner, {S. L.}",
note = "Funding Information: The authors thank Maria Cristina Estivariz (CEPAVE) for the drawings and Luis Giambelluca (CEPAVE) for the photographs used in this paper. Theresa Howard and Erica McAlister [Natural History Museum (NHM), London, U.K.] kindly assisted ML during her visit to study specimens deposited at the Rothschild Collection at the NHM. The visit of ML to the NHM was funded by the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and Agencia Nacional de Promoci{\'o}n Cient{\'i}fica y Tecnol{\'o}gica, Argentina. This work was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (grants BSR8612329, BSR9024816, DEB9496263, DEB9631295 to SLG; BSR8408923, DEB8920617 to T. L. Yates; OISE 9417252 to T. L. Yates and JS-B; BSR8316740 to S. Anderson). Additional support was provided directly by the American Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Southwestern Biology, Texas Tech University, the Tinker Foundation, and the Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology Development Fund. The following organizations provided logistic support in the field: Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, La Paz; Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico, and Instituto Boliviano de Biolog{\'i}a de la Altura, La Paz. The authors also thank the cadres of faculty, staff and students of the natural history collections in Bolivia, who are hard at work learning about the natural heritage of the country in order to conserve it for the future. The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 The Royal Entomological Society",
year = "2018",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1111/mve.12314",
language = "English",
volume = "32",
pages = "462--472",
journal = "Medical and Veterinary Entomology",
issn = "0269-283X",
number = "4",
}