Ectoparasitic flies (Diptera, Streblidae) on bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) in a dry tropical forest in the northern Colombia

Durán, Adrián Alonso; García, Deivys M. Alvarez; Graciolli, Gustavo

doi:10.11606/0031-1049.2017.57.08

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“…Made with Natural Earth. 1 Zarazúa‐Carbajal et al (); 2 ter Hofstede et al (); 3 Durán de la Ossa et al (); 4 Tarquino‐Carbonell et al (); 5 Santos et al (); 6 Soares et al (); 7 Barbier et al (); 8 Barbier et al (); 9 Santos et al (); 10 Soares et al (); 11 Bezerra et al (); 12 Bezerra and Bocchiglieri (); 13 Rios et al (); 14 Komeno and Linhares (); 15 Azevedo and Linardi (); 16 Barbier and Graciolli (); 17 Eriksson et al (); 18 Moras et al (); 19 Dornelles et al (); 20 Graciolli et al (); 21 França et al (); 22 Lourenço et al (); 23 Almeida et al (); 24 Bertola et al (); 25 Anderson and Ortêncio‐Filho (); 26 da Silva and Ortêncio Filho (), 27 Dornelles and Graciolli (), 28 Graciolli and Bianconi (), 29 Rui and Graciolli (), 30 Camilotti et al () [Colour figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]…”

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“…lilium in Colombia (Durán de la Ossa, Álvarez García, & Graciolli, ; Tarquino‐Carbonell et al, ) and northern Brazil (Santos et al, ; Santos et al, ), we did not change the identity since there are more than one possible species in these locales (Velazco & Patterson, ). Platyrrhinus helleri in the Brazilian Amazon and northern Colombia (Durán de la Ossa et al, ; Santos et al, ) were changed to P . incarum (Velazco & Patterson, ).…”

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“…In the case of bats assigned as S. lilium in Colombia (Durán de la Ossa, Álvarez García, & Graciolli, 2017;Tarquino-Carbonell et al, 2015) and northern Brazil (Santos et al, 2009;Santos et al, 2012), we did not change the identity since there are more than one possible species in these locales (Velazco & Patterson, 2013). Platyrrhinus helleri in the Brazilian Amazon and northern Colombia (Durán de la Ossa et al, 2017;Santos et al, 2012) were changed to P. incarum (Velazco & Patterson, 2008). Artibeus phaeotis and A. toltecus (Zarazúa-Carbajal et al, 2016) were changed to Dermanura phaeotis and D. tolteca, respectively (Hoofer, Solari, Larsen, Bradley, & Baker, 2008).…”

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“…We followed the American Society of Mammalogists' Mammal Diversity Database (2019) and Dick and Graciolli (2018) to Sturnira parvidens and Carollia sowelli, respectively (Baker, Hoffmann, & Solari, 2002;Velazco & Patterson, 2013). In the case of bats assigned as S. lilium in Colombia (Durán de la Ossa, Álvarez García, & Graciolli, 2017;Tarquino-Carbonell et al, 2015) and northern Brazil (Santos et al, 2009;Santos et al, 2012), we did not change the identity since there are more than one possible species in these locales (Velazco & Patterson, 2013). Platyrrhinus helleri in the Brazilian Amazon and northern Colombia (Durán de la Ossa et al, 2017;Santos et al, 2012) were changed to P. incarum (Velazco & Patterson, 2008).…”

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Hosts and environment overshadow spatial distance as drivers of bat fly species composition in the Neotropics

Eriksson

Doherty

Fischer

et al. 2019

Journal of Biogeography

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Aim Determine the relative influence of geographical distance, environmental differences, and host species composition on the similarity of bat fly species composition. Location Neotropics. Taxon Bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) and bat flies (Diptera: Streblidae). Methods Abundance data on bats and ectoparasites were obtained from published studies. The relative influences of environmental variation (annual precipitation, temperature seasonality, elevation, and NDVI), host species composition, and geographic distance on parasite community composition were analysed with Generalized Dissimilarity Modelling and variance partitioning. Additionally, we evaluated the influence of these environmental variables and geographic distance on host species composition. Results Our model explains 45.3% of the variance in the dissimilarity of bat fly species. Host species composition had the most significant influence on bat fly species composition across communities, followed by environmental effects. Variance partitioning showed that host species composition explained 14.9% and environmental characteristics explained 10.3% of the variance in bat fly species dissimilarity. Geographical distance alone had a negligible effect as it accounted for only 0.007% of the variance in bat fly species composition. Host species composition was mainly influenced by geographic distance (18.0%) and secondarily by environmental variables (9.8%). The most important environmental variables influencing parasite and host species composition were annual precipitation and temperature seasonality, respectively. Main Conclusions The lack of relationship between geographical distance and bat fly species composition may reflect either the high mobility or the high dispersal capacity of bat flies, or a combination of these. Alternatively, it could reflect a taxonomic artefact. Environmental differences seem to directly affect bat flies, as opposed to affecting them indirectly through their impact on the hosts. Our results support the fundamental role that host species composition plays in determining the species composition of highly host‐specific parasites. However, we argue that host specificity is not the only trait impacting ectoparasite species composition.

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Hosts and environment overshadow spatial distance as drivers of bat fly species composition in the Neotropics

Eriksson

Doherty

Fischer

et al. 2019

Journal of Biogeography

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“…In Colombia, 73 species have been recorded by Bequaert (1940), Tamsitt & Fox (1970), Marinkelle & Grosse (1981), Guerrero (1997), Dick et al (2016), and in the Field Museum of Natural History database lists (http://emuweb.fieldmuseum.org). However, lists of species occurring in tropical dry forest are lacking in the literature (Calonge-Camargo & Pérez-Torres, 2018;Durán et al, 2017;Tarquino-Carbonell et al, 2015). The goal of this research was to update the information on several species of Streblidae, contributing to the biological inventory in this ecosystem, which is critically endangered in Colombia (Arango et al, 2003;Arcila et al, 2012), and providing insights on their ecology.…”

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Records of Streblidae (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea) in a tropical dry forest fragment in Colombia

Ascuntar-Osnas

Montoya-Bustamante

González

2020

Biota

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Streblidae es una familia de moscas altamente especializada, la cual se alimenta exclusivamente de murciélagos. Aquí se presenta información sobre las especies de Streblidae presentes en dos fragmentos de bosque seco tropical en Cauca, Colombia. Entre abril y noviembre de 2012 se realizaron 16 jornadas de captura de murciélagos, utilizando redes de niebla, las cuales estuvieron abiertas desde las 18:00 hasta las 06:00. Cada murciélago capturado se revisó y los ectoparásitos encontrados se conservaron en alcohol al 90%. Se recolectaron 85 ectoparásitos y se identificaron 10 especies de estréblidos en siete especies de murciélagos. El análisis mostró que estos parásitos son localmente especializados, lo cual contrasta fuertemente con el alto número de especies hospederas que han sido reportadas para ellos. Se hipotetiza que esta diferencia se debe a restricciones locales que filtran el nicho fundamental de estas moscas. Este trabajo enriquece los inventarios de la entomofauna en remanentes de bosque seco tropical, un ecosistema en estado crítico de conservación.

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Network and parasitological analyses reveal latitudinal gradient in bats‐ectoparasitic fly interactions across the Neotropic

Biz,

Bastazini,

Carvalho

et al. 2023

Ecology and Evolution

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Ecological interactions between parasites and their hosts play a fundamental role in evolutionary processes. Selection pressures are exerted on parasites and their hosts, usually resulting in high levels of specificity. Such is the case of ectoparasitic bat‐flies, but how large‐scale spatial gradients affect the dynamics of their interactions with their bat hosts is still unknown. In the present study, we investigated interaction patterns between bats and their ectoparasitic flies (Streblidae and Nycteribiidae), both presenting their peak of diversity in the Neotropical region, along a latitudinal gradient. Using network analyses and parasitic indices, grounded on the latitudinal diversity gradient pattern, we evaluated how spatial gradients affect species interactions and parasitic indices at the biogeopraphic scale, with increasing species richness in interaction networks closer to the tropics, leading to increases in network modularity, size, and specialization, and to a decrease in nesting and connectivity. We conducted a literature review, focusing on studies done in the Neotropical region, and own data. We obtained a bat richness of 97 species parasitized by 128 species of ectoparasitic flies, distributed into 57 interaction networks between latitudes 29° S and 19° N in the Neotropic. Network metrics and parasitic indices varied along the latitudinal gradient, with changes in the richness of bats and their ectoparasitic flies and in the structure of their interactions; network specialization, modularity, and connectance increase with latitude, while network size decreases with latitude. Regions closer to the equator had higher parasite loads. Our results show that interaction network metrics present a latitudinal gradient and that such interactions, when observed at a local scale, hide variations that only become perceptible at larger scales. In this way, ectoparasites such as bat flies are not only influenced by the ecology and biology of their hosts, but also by other environmental factors acting directly on their distribution and survival.

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Ectoparasitic flies (Diptera, Streblidae) on bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) in a dry tropical forest in the northern Colombia

Abstract: This work represents the first report of host-parasite associations between flies of the family

Cited by 11 publications

References 26 publications

Hosts and environment overshadow spatial distance as drivers of bat fly species composition in the Neotropics

Hosts and environment overshadow spatial distance as drivers of bat fly species composition in the Neotropics

Records of Streblidae (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea) in a tropical dry forest fragment in Colombia

Network and parasitological analyses reveal latitudinal gradient in bats‐ectoparasitic fly interactions across the Neotropic

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