Definition of Family Pulicidae

1. Noun. Many common fleas attacking humans and domestic animals.

Exact synonyms: Pulicidae
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Order Siphonaptera, Siphonaptera
Member holonyms: Genus Pulex, Pulex, Ctenocephalides, Genus Ctenocephalides

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Pulicidae

family Pseudococcidae
family Pseudomonodaceae
family Psilophytaceae
family Psilotaceae
family Psittacidae
family Psocidae
family Psophiidae
family Psychodidae
family Psyllidae
family Pteridaceae
family Pteriidae
family Pteroclididae
family Pterodactylidae
family Ptilonorhynchidae
family Pucciniaceae
family Pulicidae (current term)
family Punicaceae
family Pygopodidae
family Pyralidae
family Pyralididae
family Pyrolaceae
family Pyrrhocoridae
family Pythiaceae
family Pythonidae
family Rachycentridae
family Rafflesiaceae
family Rajidae
family Rallidae
family Ramphastidae
family Ranidae

Literary usage of Family Pulicidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"FVT] Family. Pulicidae (True Fleas). ROTHSCHILD'S CLASSIFICATION is as follows :— SECTION I.—Club of antenna; distinctly segmented only on the hind side. ..."

2. On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects by John Lubbock (1902)
"... constituted for the family Pulicidae. In their transformations, as in many other respects, they closely resemble the Diptera. Strauss Durck- heim indeed ..."

3. Insecta by Alpheus Hyatt, Jennie Maria (Arms). Sheldon (1890)
"E. The family Pulicidae is regarded by some entomologists as a distinct order under the name of ..."

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