Human flea
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| phylum | Arthropoda | The human flea (Pulex irritans) is cosmopolitan with many host species of mammals and birds. Adults are about 1.5 to 4 mm long and laterally flattened. They are dark brown in color, wingless, and have piercing-sucking mouthparts for feeding on blood. Most fleas are distributed in the egg, larval, or pupal stages. The human flea can be a carrier of the plague bacterium, infamous for killing millions of people in Europe during the Middle Ages.
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| class | Insecta | |
| order | Siphonaptera | |
| family | Pulicidae | |
| genus | Pulex | |
| species | P. irritans |
