First Record of Bat Flies (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea) on Batan Island, Southern Luzon, Philippines

Abstract: This preliminary report presents the bat fly fauna on Batan Island, one of the islands constituting the municipality of Rapu-Rapu, Albay province, the Philippines. During a rapid biodiversity assessment conducted in December 2015, six species of bat flies belonging to the genera Brachytarsina Macquart, Eucampsipoda Kolenati, Leptocyclopodia Theodor, Megastrebla Maa, and Nycteribia Latreille were documented. Before this paper, there were no published records of bat flies on the island, making this paper the first documentation of streblid and nycteribiid bat flies on Batan Island, Philippines.