Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Parapsyllus cedei
January; hosts are Audubon's shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri) and Madeiran and Galápagos storm petrels (Oceanodroma castro and O. tethys). This flea is found in the nests of these birds.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Siphonaptera
Family
Rhopalopsyllidae
Genus
Parapsyllus
Species
cedei
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Linsley, E.G. (1977) Insects of the Galápagos (Supplement). Occassional Papers of the Califoria Academy of Sciences 125: 1-50.
- Peck, S.B. (2001) Smaller Orders of Insects of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador: Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 278 pp.
- Smit, F.G.A.M. (1970) A new species of flea from the Galápagos Islands. Entomol. Ber. 30(12): 244-247.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Parapsyllus cedei", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11110. Accessed 2 November 2026.