Dr. Kassai Tibor szerk.: Parasitologia Hungarica 2. (Budapest, 1969)
Plea common occurrences on shrew species The most frequent flea occurring on shrew species in Hungary is Palaeopsylla soricis rosiczkyi Smit, followed hy Doratopsylla das.dasyenema (Rothschild). Either one of those species,or both appear in most populations, frequently associated with Ctenoph- thalmus agyrtes bosnicus Wagner, or more rarely with Ct.assimi lis assimilis (Taschenberg), Ct. congener congener Rothschild, Hystrichopsylla talpae orientális Smit , Megabothris walkeri (Rothschild), and Palaeopsylla similis similis Dampf. Plea common occurrences on the fox and the badger A specifical fox flea is Chaetopsylla globiceps (Taschenberg), fleas specific for the badger are Chaetopsylla trichosa trichos a Ko haut and Paraceras melis melis (Walker). Besides those three species, Pulex irritans Linné is also frequent on both host species. Since the fox and the badger frequently alternate their lairs their fleas can intermingle easily, although the specific fleas mentioned above usually predominate on their own host species. In the eight cases of common occurrence found on the badger, only the four flea species listed above occurred in various combinations whereas in the fourteen populations of fleas found on the fox, the species Monopsyllus sciurorua (Schrank) and Archaeopsylla erinacei erinacei (Bouché) also appeared in one case each. I should like to remark that the flea species of the fox and the badger are also frequently found on breeds of dog used in hunting badger-dog, fox-terrier, and their mongrels . Plea common occurrences on the mole-rat and the gopher Owing to the much decreased numbers of Spalax leucodon Kordmann in Hungary, the above two host species occur together in only a few localities. However, I think that the common occurrences of
