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| Keywords: British Entomology Volume 7 (John Curtis) Plate 417.jpg en John Curtis British Entomology 1824-1840 Folio 417 Ceratophyllus elongatus synonym of Ischnopsyllus elongatus the Yellow Bat ™s Flea The plant is Erigeron acer Blue Fleabane CURTIS PLATE NOTE Entomological Magazine 1 1833 Art XLI ”On the Structure of the Antennae in the Order Aphaniptera of Kirby with reference to the Propriety of the Establishment of Genera upon the Variations of those Organs By J O Westwood Esq F L S c In the 417th plate of Mr Curtis's British Entomology for August 1832 another species of flea was illustrated under the name of Ceratopyllus elongatus with the observations that from repeated examinations that gentleman had found it necessary to divide the Pulices into two genera; that the P Talpae previously figured as an example of the genus Pulex belonged in fact to the new genus ; and that the discovery of the antennae of P canis by Mr Haliday rendered it necessary to erase the paragraph in the 114th folio quoted above A copy of Mr Haliday's figure of the antennae of the latter species which is considered as a true Pulex is introduced into Mr Curtis's plate of Ceratopyllus ; but it is not quite correct being described as only two-jointed the basal joint having only a single bristle near its internal apex The dissections of Ceratophyllus are taken from the Pulex hirundinis which is considered as the type and of which the antennae are described as slightly attenuated and four-jointed although one of them is represented in the plate as five-jointed Of the species figured as the example of the genus Cer elongatus the antennae are not described; but in fig 16 they are represented as eight-jointed the basal joint being pear-shaped the second subcyathiform and the remainder transverse forming a thick oval mass In the coloured figure of this insect these organs are however represented of the same attenuated form as in Cer hirundinis and apparently having only six joints And in the Pulex talpa which is expressly stated to belong to Ceratophyllus the antenna are described and figured as ten-jointed the basal joint being ovate-truncate and the nine remaining annulose and forming a rather elongate-ovate mass http //www biodiversitylibrary org creator John Curtis entomologist 1836 British Entomology Plate 417 cutted png British Entomology Volume 7 John Curtis Ischnopsyllus elongatus Fleas in art Erigeron acer PD-old-100 | ||||
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