A new record of Chaetopsylla mikado from Higashi-Hiroshima city, Hiroshima Prefecture

広島県東広島市西条町の国道2号線沿いで轢死していたタヌキ Nyctereutes procyonoides の体表からミカドケナガノミ Chaetopsylla mikado Rothschild, 1904の雄3個体と雌6個体を採集した。これは東広島市における初記録，広島県における2記録目となる。Three male and six female specimens of Chaetopsylla mikado Rothschild, 1904 (Siphonaptera: Vermipsyllidae) were collected from a raccoon dog Nyctereutes procyonoides in Saijō-chō, Higashi-Hiroshima city, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Honshū, Japan, on 26 January 2014. This collection represents the first record of C. mikado from Higashi-Hiroshima city and the second report from Hiroshima Prefecture