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Nycteribia kolenatii Theodor & Moscona 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

Nycteribia kolenatii Theodor & Moscona, 1954

Published records. Peștera Liliecilor de la Gura Dobrogei (Burghele-Bălăcescu 1966), host unknown;Avenul Betfia, Somova (Haelewaters et al. 2017; Sándor et al. 2018; McKee et al. 2019; Sándor et al. 2021), host Miniopterus schreibersii (Kuhl). Canaraua Fetii, Peștera Tunel de la Hagieni, Somova (Haelewaters et al. 2017; Sándor et al. 2018; McKee et al. 2019) host My. bechsteinii. Avenul Betfia, Peștera Liliecilor de la Gura Dobrogei (Haelewaters et al. 2017; Sándor et al. 2018), host My. blythii. Canaraua Fetii, Peștera Tunel de la Hagieni, Peștera Liliecilor de la Gura Dobrogei, Canaraua Fetii, Roșia, Somova (Haelewaters et al. 2017; Sándor et al. 2018; McKee et al. 2019), host My. daubentonii. Avenul Betfia, Cepari, Prundu Bârgăului, Șanț, Peștera Gaura cu Muscă (Haelewaters et al. 2017; Sándor et al. 2018; McKee et al. 2019) host My. myotis. ‘Banat’ [likely Peștera Gaura cu Muscă] (Kolenati 1857b), host R. ferrumequinum.

Material examined. Muntele Puciosu, 21.09.2017, 2 males, host My. bechsteinii. Peştera Limanu, 01.05.2017, 1 female; Peștera Tunel de la Hagieni, 20.05.2017, 1 female, 1 male; Canaraua Fetii, 22.05.2017, 1 male; 02.08.2018, 2 males; 20.09.2019, 1 male; Peștera Mare de la Merești, 26.08.2017, 1 female, 1 male; 03.09.2020, 3 females, 7 males; Peștera Lócsűr (Cheile Vârghișului), 23.08.2018, 1 female; Somova, 19.09.2019, 42 females, 44 males; Cheile Corcoaia, 24.08.2020, 1 female, 1 male; Peștera de la Întorsuri 21.09.2020, 2 females, 6 males; Peștera Osoi, 22.09.2020, 2 males; 2020.09.24, Peștera cu Apă, de la Leșu, 4 males, host My. daubentonii. Peștera Osoi, 22.09.2020, 1 male, host My. nattereri.

Distribution. One of the most widespread nycteribiid species in Europe (Szentiványi et al. 2016). Common in Romania, collected from all historical regions with 16 distinct geographical records altogether.

Remarks. The typical ectoparasite of My. daubentonii, present in most screened host populations, with a few odd records on other forest-dwelling species.

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 116, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5120.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/6388954

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