Mise à jour taxonomique et répartition des puces du genreCtenophthalmusKolenati 1856 en région paléarctique occidentale (Insecta : Siphonaptera : Ctenophthalmidae)

Ctenophthalmus baeticus boisseauorum(Beaucournu, 1968) andCtenophthalmus apertus allani(Smit, 1955) (Siphonaptera: Ctenophthalmidae) as synonymous taxa: morphometric, phylogenetic, and molecular characterization

“…These locations agree with our results since our specimens classified as C. a. allani were isolated from Asturias (north of Spain). In addition, previous authors (Beaucournu and Launay, 1990; Beaucournu and Loverlec, 2014) have just placed C. b. boisseauorum in different geographical areas of the north of Spain. The morphological analysis carried out by Hopkins and Rothschild (1966) and Beaucournu and Launay (1978, 1990) reported that several specimens of each ‘ apertus ’ subspecies evidenced great variability in male modified abdominal segments as well as in female sternum VII; however, these authors only provided taxonomical keys for males.…”

“…This work constitutes the first study that provides a combination of morphological, biometrical, molecular, and phylogenetic comparative data of two subspecies (C. b. boisseauorum and C. a. allani) belonging to Ctenophthalmus genus in order to assess their taxonomic and phylogenetic relationships. It should be highlighted that genus Ctenophthalmus includes approximately 300 valid taxa (Beaucournu and Lorvelec, 2014) representing the most abundant flea genus in Europe (Beaucournu and Launay, 1990). Gómez et al (2003) reported some notes about the morphological variability of Ctenophthalmus sp.…”

Combination of nuclear and mitochondrial markers as a useful tool to identify Ctenophthalmus species and subspecies (Siphonaptera: Ctenophthalmidae)

“…The necessity to study, comparatively, morphological and molecular approaches within Siphonaptera Order has been reported by several authors in the last years (Whiting et al 2008;Marrugal et al 2013;Lawrence et al 2014;Zurita et al 2018b). Ctenophthalmus genus is considered the largest one within Siphonaptera Order (Beaucournu and Loverlec 2014); however, only morphological data are available in order to identify and discriminate species and subspecies of this group. Recently, Zurita et al (2020) claimed for further molecular and phylogenetic studies for this genus, especially aimed to discriminate among female specimens, which could not be morphologically identified at species and subspecies levels.…”

“…In this sense, some authors recently reported that some subfamilies included within Ctenophthalmidae such as Stenoponiinae should be considered a monophyletic family (Stenoponiidae) (Zurita et al 2015). Ctenophthalmus is considered the largest genus within the Order Siphonaptera; thus, this genus comprises fifteen different subgenera distributed throughout the world out of which the Ctenophthalmus subgenus is the largest one being distributed along the Palearctic region (Hopkins and Rothschild 1966;Beaucournu and Loverlec 2014). Only in the Western Palearctic Zone (European region) 143 taxa (57 species and 86 subspecies) have been described so far (Beaucournu and Loverlec 2014).…”

“…In this context, it is usual to find some taxonomical keys for this genus providing a deep level of classification to subspecies level exclusively based on males (Beaucournu and Launay 1990). For example, Beaucournu and Loverlec (2014) reported eight different…”