Tungidae

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
Genera (3): Hectopsylla – Tunga – ?Neotunga
Name

Tungidae Fox, 1925

Synonyms

Sarcopsyllinae Taschenberg, 1880
Hectopsyllinae Baker, 1904

References
selected 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.
Whiting, M.F.; Whiting, A.S.; Hastriter, M.W.; Dittmar, K. 2008: A molecular phylogeny of fleas (Insecta: Siphonaptera): origins and host associations. Cladistics, 24(5): 677–707. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00211.x PDF PDF