@article {2972, title = {Une nouvelle puce du genre Allopsylla Beaucournuet Fain, 1982 (Siphonaptera: Ischnopsyllidae) on R{\'e}publique Centrafricaine, sur un chiropt{\`e}re Molossidae m{\'e}connu}, journal = {Parasite}, volume = {9}, number = {3}, year = {2002}, month = {2002}, pages = {233-237}, abstract = {A pair of Allopsylla lobayensis Beaucournu\& Barri{\`e}re, new species were collected the first of November 1999 in Ngotto forest, in the south-western part of the Lobaye basin, Central African Republic (CAR). The host specimen, a little known molossid bat (Myopterus whitleyi), constitutes the first record of this species in CAR. The new flea species appears taxonomically close to A. hetera Beaucournu\& Fain, 1982, one of the two other Allopsylla species, previously know from other faunal regions (A. alloides in Nigeria and A. hetera in Democratic Republic of the Congo). The parasitism of three distinctly different hosts by the three known Allopsylla species raises questions regarding the host-parasite specificity of this group.}, keywords = {Allopsylla lobayensis sp. nov., Central Africa, Central African Republic, Chiroptera, ectoparasites, Insecta, Ischnopsyllidae, Molossidae, Myopterus whitleyi, parasitism, Siphonaptera}, author = {Barri{\`e}re, P. and Beaucournu, J.-C. and M{\'e}nier, K. and Colyn, M.} }