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Flea News 96 (November 2025), R. L. Bossard

Flea News

Flea News is a twice-yearly newsletter about fleas (Siphonaptera). Before including in publications any of the citations given here, please review for accuracy and correct formatting. Many of our sources are abstracting journals and current literature sources, and editors have not necessarily checked citations.

Announcements

Obituary: Lane Douglas Foil (June 16, 1949 - June 22, 2025)

Siphonaptera Literature (2025): Taxonomy, Conservation, Hosts and Distributions, Physiology and Morphology, Evolution, Ecology, Pathology and Control, Microbial Symbionts

Flea News 60 (July 2000), Robert E. Lewis

Flea News

Announcement: Printed copies of Flea News discontinuing

Obituary: Franciscus Gerardus Albertus Maria Smit (June 7, 1920-January 28, 2000)

Book review: Sifonapteros do Brasil, Pedro Marcois Linardi and Lindolpho Rocha Guimaraes. Sao Paulo, Museu de Zoologia USP/FAPESP, 2000.

Flea species

Literature

Miscellanea: As of January 2000 the name of the Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington was changed to Comparative Parasitology.

Flea News 59 (December 1999), Robert E. Lewis

Flea News

Obituary: Li Kuei Chen (January 6, 1911-October 21, 1999)

Miscellanea

Book reviews: Eustorgio Méndez, Insectos y otros artrópodos de importancia médica y veterinaria; Mammals of the Eastern United States, 3rd edition. John O. Whitaker, Jr. and W. J. Hamilton, Jr., 1998; Walker's Mammals of the World: Volume I, 6th edition. Ronald M. Nowak, 1999

Siphonaptera literature

Flea News 58 (June 1999), Robert E. Lewis

Flea News

Obituary: Lindolpho Rocha Guimarães (January 24, 1908-November 7, 1998)

Miscellanea

Siphonaptera literature

Flea News 57 (January 1999), Robert E. Lewis

Flea News

Mailing list changes

Miscellanea: The following article concerning plague in prairie dogs in Texas is taken from the July-August issue of the Technical Information Bulletin of the Armed Forces Pest Management Board.

Siphonaptera literature

Flea News 56 (July 1998), Robert E. Lewis

Flea News

Miscellanea

Siphonaptera literature

Mailing list changes

Flea News 55 (January 1998), Robert E. Lewis

Flea News

Miscellanea

Flea species

Material request

Siphonaptera literature

Flea News 54 (June 1997), Robert E. Lewis

Flea News

Miscellanea

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) update

Nomenclatural tidbits

Siphonaptera literature

Flea News 53 (December 1996), Robert E. Lewis

Flea News

Robert E. Lewis to retitre from Iowa State University effective January 1, 1997

Book reviews

Obituaries: Robert S. Traub (October 26, 1916-December 21, 1996); Dorald Mervin Allred (July 11, 1923-June 20, 1996)

Miscellanea

Siphonaptera literature

Report: Use of an orally administered insect development inhibitor (Lufenuron) as a flea control agent in the California ground squirrel, Spermophilus beecheyi by Richard M. Davis

Flea News 52 (July 1996), Robert E. Lewis

Flea News

Editorial, Robert E. Lewis

Miscellanea

Announcement

Siphonaptera literature

New flea species

Flea News 51 (December 1995), Robert E. Lewis

Flea News

Obituaries:George MacKenzie Dunnet (April 19, 1928-September 11, 1995); William Livingston Jellison (January 28, 1906-November 7, 1995)

Miscellanea

Siphonaptera literatue

Flea News 50 (July 1995), Robert E. Lewis

Flea News

Obituary: Maria Suciu (January 9, 1932-September 24, 1994)

Miscellanea

Mailing list

Siphonaptera literature