siphonapteran

1. not comparableOf, pertaining to, or characteristic of the order Siphonaptera of fleas.

plural siphonapterans

1. Any species of the order Siphonaptera, a flea.

   Members of the genus Blastocrithidia are common pathogens of dipterans, hemipterans, and siphonapterans.

   1998, Drion G. Boucias, Jacquelyn C. Pendland, Principles of Insect Pathology, page 396

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   Absence of peripheral singlets, though with varying numbers of central singlets, is seen not only in mecopterans and siphonapterans but also in mycetophilid dipterans, and trichopterans.

   1987, Barrie Gillean Molyneux Jamieson, The Ultrastructure and Phylogeny of Insect Spermatozoa, page 206

   The last remaining group, the siphonapterans or fleas, appeared in the Cenozoic, coincident with the radiation of the mammals that they parasitise.

   2006, Robert Wynn Jones, Applied Palaeontology, page 174