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Categories: Fauna of North America, Fauna of South America, Articles with short description, Insects described in 1758, Parasitic arthropods of mammals

chigoe chigger chigoe flea Tunga penetrans Jigger

Small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans WordNet 3.0

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Small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Tunga penetrans is a species of flea also known as the jigger, jigger flea, chigoe, chigo, chigoe flea, chigo flea, nigua, niknik, sand flea, or burrowing flea. Wikipedia

An aquatic-related parasite Wikipedia Disambiguation

Species of insect Wikidata

A flea, Tunga penetrans, of tropical America and Africa, the impregnated female of which embeds itself in the skin, especially of the feet, of humans and animals and becomes greatly distended with eggs. OmegaWiki

A chigoe (Tunga penetrans), a kind of flea found in tropical climates. Wiktionary

Chigoe flea. Wiktionary (translation)

A small tropical flea, Tunga penetrans, whose females burrow under the skin of animals, including humans, and lay their eggs, causing strong irritation and sores. Wiktionary

Tunga penetrans. Wiktionary (translation)

A parasitic flea, Tunga penetrans. Wiktionary

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flea

taxonomic group

PART OF

Tunga

DESCRIBED BY SOURCE

Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

The Nuttall Encyclopædia

PARENT TAXON

Tunga