| fleas of elephant shrews (mammalia, macroscelididae) and a new host and locality record for macroscelidopsylla albertyni de meillon & marcus, 1958 (siphonaptera, chimaeropsyllidae). | fleas collected from the elephant shrews elephantulus edwardii (a. smith, 1839) in the western cape province, elephantulus myurus thomas & schwann, 1906 in free state province, and an elephantulus of undetermined species in the eastern cape province, south africa are recorded in this paper. five flea species were recovered of which demeillonia granti (rothschild, 1904) was the most numerous and prevalent. it was followed by macroscelidopsylla albertyni de meillon & marcus, 1958, collected only f ... | 2003 | 14621322 |