Tunga

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Antliophora
Ordo: Siphonaptera
Infraordo: Pulicomorpha
Superfamilia: Pulicoidea

Familia: Tungidae
Genus: Tunga
Synonyms (1): Brevidigita

Species (12): T. bondari – T. bossii – T. caecata – T. caecigena – T. callida – T. hexalobulata – T. libis – T. monositus – T. penetrans – T. terasma – T. travassosi – T. trimamillata
Name

Tunga Jarocki, 1838

Primary references

Jarocki 1838: Zoologiia, 6, 50.

References

Beaucournu, J.-C.; Degeilh, B.; Mergey, T.; Muñoz-Leal, S.; González-Acuña, D. 2012. Le genre Tunga Jarocki, 1838 (Siphonaptera: Tungidae). I – Taxonomie, phylogénie, écologie, rôle pathogène. Parasite, 19(4): 297–308. doi:10.1051/parasite/2012194297. ISSN 1252-607X.
Linardi, Pedro Marcos; Beaucournu, Jean-Claude; de Avelar, Daniel Moreira; Belaz, Sorya 2014. Notes on the genus Tunga (Siphonaptera: Tungidae) II – neosomes, morphology, classification, and other taxonomic notes. Parasite, 21: 68. doi:10.1051/parasite/2014067. ISSN 1776-1042. PMID 25514594.
Hinz, E. 1996: Zur Verbreitung und Ausbreitung der Gattung Tunga (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von T. penetrans. Mitt. Österr. Ges. Tropenmed. Parasitol., 18: 173–182. PDF

Tunga is a genus of fleas belonging to the family Hectopsyllidae.[1][2]

The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution.[3]

Species:[3]

Tunga bondari Wagner, 1932
Tunga caecata (Enderlein, 1901)
Tunga penetrans Linnaeus, 1758

References

"Tunga". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. NCBI. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
"Tunga In: NCBI Taxonomy". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
"Tunga". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 7 April 2021.