This is an Oriental Rat Flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, with a digestive tract blocked by a bacterial mass.
A blocked flea, i.e. dark spots in stomach, is unable to ingest its blood meal because of a mass of bacteria within the proventriculus, preventing passage of food from the esophagus to the stomach.
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