The mouthparts are of the piercing/sucking type, with two pairs of well-developed palps. The legs are relatively long, the hind ones with especially large coxae to enable jumping, and the ...

The scientific name for fleas is Siphonaptera, which comes from the Greek words 'siphon', meaning pipe, and 'aptera', meaning wingless, relating to the sucking mouthparts and wingless condition of ...