brown flea illustration

A magnified left lateral view of a male Oriental rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, a well-known bubonic plague vector. This specimen was harvested from the hide of a Malaysian house rat, Rattus rattus diardii, which had been located in a rural village in the Bojolali Regency District, of the Central Java Province of Indonesia, on April 4, 1968. Photographer: James Gathany