Translingual

Pulex irritans (human flea), model made ​​by Alfred Keller, 1930

Proper noun

Pulicidae

1. A taxonomic family within the superfamily Pulicoidea – some fleas, including the human flea.

Hypernyms

• (family): Insecta - class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Metapterygota - clade; Neoptera - infraclass; Eumetabola, Endopterygota - clades; Panorpida - superorder; Antliophora - clade; Siphonaptera - order; Pulicomorpha - infraorder; Pulicoidea - superfamily

Hyponyms

• (family): Archaeopsyllini, Moeopsyllini, Pulicini, Spilopsyllini, Xenopsyllini (tribes)