Pulex irritans Tunga penetrans Xenopsylla

Geography Fleas
( common
human flea)
All over the
world
(sand flea)

South Africa and

America mainly
(tropical rat flea)

Feeding habits *bites man and *humans and animals Natural host = rat
domestic *both sex are blood
animals suckers
Disease No No but a nuisance Bubonic plague
transmission and flea borne
typhus
Pathogenesis *bite produce *localized skin
localized disease affecting one
inflammation foot by burrowing
on both feet female flea for egg
and lower legs laying
Life cycle 1) Adults and
larva live on
soil
2) Fertile females
penetrate soft
skin on the toe
web spaces
and become
gravid
3) Eggs laid to
exterior and
female flea
dies
Morphology 1) No 1)no combs 1)no combs
combs
2) No meral
rod
Species 1) Cheopsis(m
ain vector)
2) Braziliensis
3) Xastea

Blood sucking flies Non blood sucking

1) Phelobotomus- sandfly 1) House fly
2) Simulium-black fly 2) Meat flies
3) Tabanus horse fly 3) Blow flies
 4) Chrysops- deer fly
5) Glossina- tetse fly
6) Stomoxys- stable fly

Tetse fly Black flies Sand fly Deer fly

Scientific Glossina spp Simulium chrysops
name
Morphology 1) Rest 1)bodies 1) bite wound
one densly is painful
wing on covered in hair
the 2) pool
other feeders
2) Long 3) move in
probosc short jerky
is hops
attache 4) bite is
d by a painful
bulb to
bottom
of head
Blood suckers Both sex Only female Females Female
Vectors Biological onchocerciasis Lesishmaniaia Loa loa
vector for s
trypanosomias Sandfly fever
is
 Sarcoptes Trombiculid Demodex ( follicle mites Ho
us
e
du
st
mi
te
Species 1) Demodex
follicularum= hair
follicle mites
2) Demodex brevis =
sebbeceous gland
Geopraph Worldwide South east asia
y Found in
hambantota
Infective Fertile adults Larval stage
stage or larva
Hosts Only man Humans
(obligate
parasite )

Morpholog 1) Oval Larva

y body 1) Bright red
2) Body 2) Hairy body
has 3) Very active
fine
lines
and
several
long
hair
3) 4 pair
of legs
4) Female
s
bigger
than
males
and
dorsal
surface
has
spines
Life cycle 1) Adult
female
burrow
s into
skin
and lay
egss
2) Larva
migrate
to skin
surface
and
burrow
into
moultin