First Record of Bat Flies (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea) in Masungi Georeserve, Luzon Island, Philippines

This paper presents a preliminary account of bat flies (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea) in Masungi Georeserve, a karst ecotourism landscape in Rizal province, Luzon Island, Philippines. Before this paper, there was no account of the bat fly fauna in the area. Thus, this report represents the first documentation of nycteribiid and streblid bat flies in Masungi Georeserve. Herein, four species representing four genera of bat flies are documented from the rapid biodiversity survey in August 2013. Additional surveys are recommended to further document the bat fly fauna occurring in Masungi Georeserve.