Basilia fletcheri

Basilia fletcheri is parasitic bat fly in the genus Basilia, in the subgenus Basilia.[1][2] It is found in India.

Basilia fletcheri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Family:
Nycteribiidae
Subfamily:
Nycteribiinae
Genus:
Basilia
Subgenus:
Basilia
Species:
B. fletcheri
Binomial name
Basilia fletcheri
(Scott, 1914)
Synonyms
  • Penicillidia fletcheri Scott, 1914

Taxonomic history

Hugh Scott described this species in 1914. He named it after its collector, Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher. Two specimens, a male and a female, were discovered on a Dormer's bat in Tamil Nadu, India. Scott placed this species in the genus Penicillidia Kolenati, 1863.[3] In 1956, Oskar Theodor classified it as belonging to the Basilia Miranda-Ribeiro, 1903 genus, which is in the same subfamily as Penicillidia.[4]

Range

It was discovered in Chennai.[3] Scott later reported that Joseph Charles Bequaert sent him a specimen from Bengaluru, which Scott identified as this species,[5] but Theodor later wrote this specimen was in fact B. punctuata; other places specimens have been collected include Navapur and Mumbai.[4]

Hosts

Hosts which specimens have been collected from include: Dormer's bats Scotozous dormeri and Lesser bamboo bats Tylonycteris pachypus.[4]

Description

It is about 2.5 mm long and has a yellowish color.[3][4]

References
  1. Maa, Tsing C. (1965). "An Interim World List of Batflies: (Diptera: Nycteribiidae and Streblidae)1". Journal of Medical Entomology. 1 (4): 380. doi:10.1093/jmedent/1.4.377. PMID 14280491.
  2. Maity, Aniruddha; Naskar, Atanu; Mitra, Swati; Chakraborty, Abesh; Hazra, Surajit; Banerjee, Dhriti (May 2014). Indian Louse Flies (Insecta: Diptera: Hippoboscidae) (Report). Kolkata: Diptera Section, Zoological Survey of India.
  3. Scott, Hugh (1914). "On some Oriental Nycteribiidæ [Diptera Pupipara]". Journal of Natural History. Ser. 8. 14 (81). pp. 214–217; Pl. 10. Figs. 1–4. doi:10.1080/00222931408693567.
  4. Theodor, Oskar (1956). "On the genus Tripselia and the group of Basilia bathybothyra (Nycteribiidae, Diptera)". Parasitology. 46 (3–4): 377–380. doi:10.1017/S003118200002655X. PMID 13378884.
  5. Scott, Hugh (1917). "Notes on Nycteribiidae, with Descriptions of Two New Genera". Parasitology. 9 (4): 605. doi:10.1017/S0031182000006211.

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