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Basilia italica Theodor 1954

Creators

  • 1. Department of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca, Calea Mănăștur 3 - 5, RO- 300472 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
  • 2. Department of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca, Calea Mănăștur 3 - 5, RO- 300472 Cluj-Napoca, Romania. & amihalca @ usamvcluj. ro; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6076 - 7914
  • 3. Department of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca, Calea Mănăștur 3 - 5, RO- 300472 Cluj-Napoca, Romania. & Department of Parasitology and Zoology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Budapest, Hungary.

Description

Basilia italica Theodor, 1954

Published records. Ic Ponor, 1 female, 1 male, host Myotis mystacinus (Kuhl) (Péter et al. 2021).

Material examined. Aghireșu, 02.09.2020, 1 female; Peștera Mare de la Merești, 02.09.2020, 1 male; host in both cases Barbastella barbastellus (Schreber).

Distribution. Southern and Central Europe. Rare in Romania, collected only at three distinct sites.

Remarks. A rare fly species, mostly recorded on forest-dwelling, small-sized bat species. Its primary hosts are Myotis brandtii (Eversmann) and My. mystacinus, with several records also from Myotis alcathoe von Helversen & Heller and six other species (Szentiványi et al. 2016).

Notes

Published as part of Péter, Áron, Mihalca, Andrei Daniel & Sándor, Attila D., 2022, Annotated checklist of the bat flies (Diptera: Nycteribiidae) of Romania, pp. 111-127 in Zootaxa 5120 (1) on page 115, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5120.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/6388954

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B09745FF8AFFF2FF30FDF401ECD4C7

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5120.1.7 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/6388954 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF89EF3DFF8EFFF6FFA7FFB3031CD745 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/0336B096-F90C-4AF3-BF32-4CA854E88F05 (URL)
Is source of
https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03B09745FF8AFFF2FF30FDF401ECD4C7 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/194286914 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/20077/taxon/03B09745FF8AFFF2FF30FDF401ECD4C7.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Hippoboscidae
Genus
Basilia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Theodor
Species
italica
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Basilia italica Theodor, 1954 sec. Péter, Mihalca & Sándor, 2022

References

  • Peter, A., Mihalca, A. & Sandor, A. D. (2021) First report of the bat fly species Basilia italica in Romania. Biodiversity Data Journal, 9, e 57680. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / BDJ. 9. e 57680
  • Szentivanyi, T., Estok, P. & Foldvari, M. (2016) Checklist of host associations of European bat flies (Diptera: Nycteribiidae, Streblidae). Zootaxa, 4205 (2), 101 - 126. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4205.2.1