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Basilia italica Theodor 1954
- 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).
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Additional details
Identifiers
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