Association of ectoparasites (Diptera and Acari) on bats (Mammalia) in a restinga habitat in northeastern Brazil

Bezerra, Rayanna Hellem Santos; Bocchiglieri, Adriana

doi:10.1007/s00436-018-6034-0

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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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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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“…Site 2 has a more open understory, bordered by a plantation of Hancornia speciosa Gomes (mangabeira;Fig. 2;Bezerra & Bocchiglieri, 2018).…”

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Bats in a restinga area in Sergipe, Northeastern Brazil

Bezerra

Bocchiglieri

2021

Pap. Avulsos Zool.

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There is little known about the bats of the Brazilian restinga as most studies have concentrated on the country’s south and southeast regions. In Sergipe, Northeastern Brazil, the only study previously carried out registered 17 species in different restinga habitats. Thus, this study aimed to characterize the bat community in a restinga area in Sergipe and update the list of species that occur in the area. The study was carried out in the Caju Private Natural Heritage Reserve, on the south coast of the state of Sergipe. Monthly campaigns were carried out from October 2016 to September 2017 over two consecutive nights and alternating between two sites to capture the bats. We captured Bats using 10 mist nets that remained open between 6:00 p.m. and 12:00 p.m. We determined the abundance and trophic guilds of the captured species. In addition, we obtained the occurrence frequency degree through the Constancy Index. We captured 457 individuals distributed over 13 species and two families, where three species represented a new record for the locality. The family Phyllostomidae was the richest and most abundant. Most species were frugivorous (61.5%). According to the Constancy Index, only four species were considered common. Using Jackknife 1 estimator, we estimated 14.83 species for the area, indicating that the richness obtained in this study corresponds to 87.6% of this estimate. This study resulted in an 17.6% increase in bat richness known for the area. The high representativeness of the Phyllostomidae family may be related to the capture method used. The predominance of frugivores bats in this study may be associated with the presence of many fruit trees in the area. The low occurrence of species considered common is often reported and can be explained by the species’ trophic specializations and by the sampling methods. Considering the scarcity of studies in restinga areas in Northeastern Brazil, this work becomes important for the knowledge of the bats in this environment, especially for Sergipe.

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“…Some males, however, roost with groups of females in harems year round (McCracken and Wilkinson 2000). Grooming is one of the major causes of parasite mortality (Marshall 1982), during breeding, females can reduce the intensity of this behavior and in juvenile individuals it is not very marked (Berlota et al 2005, Bezerra andBocchiglieri 2018). Such ecological variation may cause bat species to differ in their susceptibility to the prevalence and intensity of parasitism, parameters directly related to the degree of exposure of hosts to parasites (Bush et al 1997).…”

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Bat fly (Diptera: Streblidae) and common vampire bat (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) association in Honduras: prevalence, mean intensity, infracommunities and influence of the biological characteristics of the host

Gómez-Corea

España²,

Mejía-Quintanilla

et al. 2022

Zoologia (Curitiba)

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Bat species present a series of attributes that makes them prone to being parasitized. Bat flies (Streblidae) are hematophagous ectoparasites exclusive to bats. Our study aimed to investigate the association of bat flies with the Common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus (É. Geoffroy, 1810), in Honduras. We analyzed the effect of sex and age of the host on parasitism. Eight localities belonging to six departments were sampled in an altitudinal range between 50 and 995 m. Field data were obtained between May 2018 to November 2019 and 80 individuals were captured, from which 395 bat flies were extracted. Four species of bat flies were registered: Strebla wiedemanni Kolenati, 1856, Trichobius parasiticus Gervais, 1844, T.joblingi Wenzel, 1966 and T. caecus Edwards, 1948. Trichobius parasiticus presented the highest prevalence and mean intensity, followed by S. wiedemanni. Trichobius joblingi and T. caecus are new records of parasitism on D. rotundus for Honduras, although we consider as an accidental association. We recorded six types of infracommunities that parasitized 85% of the hosts. The prevalence and mean intensity was not affected by age and sex of the host for any bat fly species.

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Association of ectoparasites (Diptera and Acari) on bats (Mammalia) in a restinga habitat in northeastern Brazil

Cited by 16 publications

References 54 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

Bats in a restinga area in Sergipe, Northeastern Brazil

Bat fly (Diptera: Streblidae) and common vampire bat (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) association in Honduras: prevalence, mean intensity, infracommunities and influence of the biological characteristics of the host

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