Assemblages of mammalian hair and blood-feeding midges (Insecta: Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) in Miocene amber

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 177-195

  Peñalver, Enrique ^a   Grimaldi, David ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dominican Republic; Fossil hair; Lutzomyia; Mammalian hosts; Microstructure; Parasitic association; Solenodontidae; Swarms

Indexed keywords

FLY; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HEMOPHAGY; MIOCENE;

ACARI; AVES; CHIRONOMIDAE; DIPTERA; INSECTA; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PSYCHODIDAE; REPTILIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); SOLENODONTIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33646394322     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S026359330500009X     Document Type: Article

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