Flea News Volume 48 Produced by R.E. Lewis, Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 FLEA NEWS is a biannual newsletter devoted to matters involving insects belonging to the order Siphonaptera (fleas) and related subjects. It is compiled and distributed free of charge by Robert E. Lewis, with the support of the Department of Entomology at Iowa State University at Ames, IA, and a grant in aid from Sandoz Animal Health, based in Des Plaines, IL. It is mainly bibliographic in nature. Many of the sources are abstracting journals and title pages and not all citations have been checked for completeness or accuracy. Additional information will be provided upon written request. Further, recipients are urged to contribute items of interest to the profession for inclusion herein. I am particularly interested in obtaining E-mail addresses for a directory of recipients and hope, beginning with this issue, to make Flea News available on the Internet. If your World-Wide Web browser supports the "mailto:" function, you can click here to send me your name, mailing address, and e-mail address. Contents: Obituaries: o Joanne Harriett ('Mike') Lewis o Tuti R. Hadi Miscellanea Mailing List Changes Research Notes Publications Available ESA Presentations in Indianapolis New Taxa Siphonaptera Literature Status Report: Siphonapter of North America north of Mexico OBITUARIES Joanne Harriett ("Mike") Lewis 4-February-1932 - 6-February-1994 It is with a heavy heart that I report the death of my wife, colleague and best friend, Joanne, of a massive heart attack. Joanne (Hauschild) Lewis was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended the Richmond, Indiana, school system and we were wed in that city in June of 1952. She attended classes in nursing at Reid Memorial Hospital and Earlham College, both in Richmond, and German and other subjects at the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. In 1959 she accompanied me to the American University of Beirut, in Lebanon, where she served as a research assistant and as my assistant curator of the Natural History Museum. In 1967 we returned to the United States, taking up residence in Ames. There she was employed by the Ames Laboratory (DOE) from 1969 to 1974. From 1974 until her death she was a collaborator on a number of projects dealing with ectoparasitic insects and their hosts. She was co-author of eight technical papers and two books on the subject, as well as co-editor of this newsletter. She served on the Rules Committee of the National Organization of the Embroiderer's Guild of America, was active in the Heartland Region of the Guild, and was past president of the Ames Chapter. She was also a member of Netekar Temple No. 11 of the Daughters of the Nile, and Laura Chapter No. 115 of the Order of Eastern Star. The Joanne H. Lewis Library Endowment Fund has been established at Iowa State University in her memory. ***** Tuti R. Hadi 25-July-1943 * 13-March-1993 The latest issue of the Bulletin of the Society of Vector Ecology (18[2]: xii) carried the short obituary of Dr. T. R. Hadi upon which the following is based. Dr. Hadi was born in Bandung, Java, and succumbed to meningitis at the age of 49. She earned Bachelor's, Master's and Doctorate degrees from various Javanese Universities and earned a second Master's degree from the University of Hawaii (Manoa) in 1980. From 1976 to 1978 she was Senior Technician, and later Research Scientist at the United States Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2 (NAMRU-2) in Jakarta. There she collaborated with a number of American colleagues (Carney, Cross, Dennis and van Peenan) on entomological and parasitological surveys throughout the Indonesian Archipelago. From 1976 until her death she pursued similar studies as a Researd Scientist with the National Institute for Health Research and Development of the Indonesian Ministry of Heath in Jakarta. Her interests were broad and included vector- borne diseases and their reservoirs, especially scrub typus, murine typhus and plague. She was particularly focused on scrub typhus and the taxonomy of its chigger vectors and it was in this specialty that she performed her most detailed studies. Her passing deprives the region of a major source of expertise in acarology, and certainly one of its leading vector biologists. MISCELLANEA Dr. Ralph P. Eckerlin has requested that the following notice be included in this issue of Flea News. The first call for papers has been sent out for the symposium entitled Appalachian Biogeography scheduled for June 25-29, 1995 at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA. Papers are requested relating to the present or historical biogeography of the Appalachians and factors influencing Appalachian biogeography. Specifically, papers are sought from the following disciplines: Botany, Geology, Invertebrate Zoology, Palaeobiology, Palaeoclimatology, Physical Geography & Vertebrate Biology. The proceedings resulting from this symposium will be published and all presenters are urged to submit manuscripts for peer review. Titles and abstracts are requested by December 15, 1994. Titles may be submitted and information requested from: Dr. Ralph P. Eckerlin, Natural Sciences Division, Northern VA Community College, 8333 Little River Turnpike, Annandale, VA 22003-3796, Fax (703) 323 3215 ***** Wanted A copy of Holland's The fleas of Canada, Alaska and Greenland (Siphonaptera). Will pay fair price plus postage. Contact J. Kucera, 5930 S. Sultan Circle, Murray, UT 84107. Mailing List Additions Broce, Alberto B., Waters Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-4004. Grigal, Mark, 6812 McCormick Woods Dr. S. W., Port Orchard, WA 98366-7613. Hansen, Steve, Sandoz Animal Health, 1300 E. Touhy, Des Plaines, IL 60018. Main, Andrew J., AUC-Staff cv/o IIE, 809 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017. Mason, John, 6 Kendrick's Bank, Bayston Hill, Shrewsbury, Salop, SY3 0EH, ENGLAND Nezvesky, L. O., 1785 Boston Avenue, Suite 2, Bridgeport, CT, 06610-2608. Research Notes Kim Larsen & Alice Oleson (vide Bille, 1993) of the Danish Pest Infestation Laboratory report the following studies on fleas in progress in their institution: 9.1 Fleas and farmed mink. 9.2 The squirrel flea Ceratophyllus[(Monopsyllus)] sciurorum sciurorum. 9.2.1 Rearing fleas. 9.2.2 Survival and development related to temperature and humidity. 9.2.3 Flea behavior. 9.3 The cat flea. 9.3.1 Transmission experiments with Afipia felis by use of membrane-fed cat fleas. 9.3.2 Development of cat fleas during the year in Denmark. 9.3.3 Focusing on the substrates when evaluating the efficacy of insecticides. PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE The following papers are excess duplicates in the National Museum of Natural History reprint files. In an effort to make this information available to researchers they are offering copies of these papers free of charge upon request. They are offered on a first-come-first-serve basis and the number of copies available is usually indicated in parentheses [( )] after the citation. Researchers are also requested to supply the NMNH with copies of their works when possible. Requests may be directed to:, Ms. Nancy Adams, Department of Entomology, NMNH, Smithsonian Institution, MRC 105, Washington, DC 20560 Following is the inventory listed by insect order. Anoplura Durden, Traub & Emerson, 1990. Sucking lice (Anoplura) from Pakistan mammals, with notes on zoogeography. (8) Emerson & Kim, 1968. Records of Anoplura from South West Africa. (14) Johnson, 1957. The identity of Pediculus spiculifer Gervais (Anoplura). (200) Descriptions of two new species of Eulinognathus Cummings, and redescription of E. aculeatus (Neumann) (Anoplura). (17) 1958. Type specimens of lice (Order Anoplura) in the United States National Museum. (32) A new species of Anoplura from the Philippines. (29) 1959. The rodent-infesting Anoplura (Sucking lice) of Thailand, with remarks on some related species. (8) 1960. A new species of Hoplopleura from Australia (Anoplura: Hoplopleuridae). (119) The Anoplura of African rodents and insectivores. (17) 1962. Redescriptions of two cervid-infesting Anoplura from southeast Asia. (52) Notes and descriptions of African lice. (Anoplura) (4) Three new Anoplura from African rodents (Anoplura: Hoplopleuridae). (37) The species of Fahrenholzia Kellogg and Ferris from spiny pocket mice (Anoplura: Hoplopluiridae). (37) 1963. Two rare Anoplura from Kenya. (64) 1964. The hoplopleurid lice of the Indo-Malayan Subregion (Anoplura: Hoplopleuridae). (31) 1969. Haemophthirius galeopitheci Mjoeberg rediscovered; with the description of a new family of sucking lice (Haemophthiriidae). (70) 1972. Hoplopleura intermedia and its allies, with the description of a new species (67) On the rodent-infesting Anoplura of Panama. (90) Sucking lice of Venezuelan rodents, with remarks on related species. (38) Neohaematopinus appressus, a new species of sucking louse from an Asian tree squirrel. (23) Polyplax rhizomydis, a new species of sucking louse from Asian bamboo rats. (27) Two new species of Hoplopleura from Loatian murids. (29) Scanlon & Johnson, 1957. On some microtine-infesting Polyplax (Anoplura). (43) Wenzel & Johnson, 1966. Checklist of the sucking lice of Panama (Anoplura). (63) Anoplura & Mallophaga Emerson, Maser & Whitaker, 1984. Lice (Mallophaga & Anoplura) from mammals of Oregon. (3) Mallophaga Carriker, 1944. Studies in Neotropical Mallophaga (III). (4) 1949. On a collection of Mallophaga from Guam, Marianas Islands. (60) Some bird lice of the genera Acidoproctus and Quadriceps (Neotropical Mallophaga Miscellany No. 3). (35) 1954. Studies in Neotropical Mallophaga, XI: Bird lice of the Suborder Amblycera, genus Dennyus Neumann. (10) 1957. Studies in Neotropical Mallophaga, XVI: Bird lice of the Suborder Ischnocera. (7) 1960 Studies in Neotropical Mallophaga, XVII: A new family (Trochiliphagidae) & a new genus of the lice of hummingbirds. (6) 1963. New and little known Mallophaga from Venezuelan birds (Part II). (21) 1966. A revision of the genus Furnaricola (Mallophaga) with descriptions of new species. (23) Cicchino & Emerson, 1983. Contribucion al conocimiento de los malofagos Argentinos. XIV. Philopteridae nuevos poco conocidos parasitos de Rallidae.