Bat flies (Diptera: Streblidae) ectoparasites of bats at an Atlantic Rainforest site in northeastern Brazil

Abstract

Bat flies were surveyed between March, 2007 and February, 2008, in the Carnijó Private Natural Heritage Reserve (08° 07' S and 35° 05' W), an area of Atlantic Rainforest in the municipality of Moreno, in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. Bats were captured biweekly using mist nets set during six hours each night. The ectoparasites were collected with tweezers and/or a brush wet in ethanol and stored in 70% ethanol. The specimens are deposited in the zoological reference collection of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul. Sixteen species of streblid bat flies were collected from 10 bat species of the family Phyllostomidae. Thirteen of the these streblid species were recorded for the first time in Pernambuco.

Bat (Mammalia: Chiroptera) diversity in an area of mangrove forest in southern Pernambuco, Brazil, with a new species record and notes on ectoparasites (Diptera: Streblidae)

“…Trichobius joblingi was the most common species in the present study, as it was at other sites in Pernambuco (Soares et al, 2013) and Brazil (Bertola et al, 2005;Eriksson et al, 2011). While T. joblingi was recorded in one other bat species, its overall abundance was related to that of C. perspicillata, which was not only by far the most abundant bat in the sample -which is typical of most sites in Brazil (Peracchi et al, 2011) -but also had more than a third of the individuals infested with parasites.…”

“…The seven species recorded here represent 27% of the total ectoparasitic dipteran fauna known to occur in Pernambuco (Guimarães, 1938;Soares et al, 2013), and two of the species -Trichobius uniformis and Strebla wiedemanni -had not previously been registered in the state.…”

Streblidae (Diptera) on bats (Chiroptera) in an area of Atlantic Forest, state of Rio de Janeiro

“…Despite being a common species on the lists of bat flies in the Atlantic Forest (AZEVEDO; BERTOLA et al, 2005;SOARES et al, 2013), it was not previously reported in the study by Almeida et al (2011) in the state of Rio de Janeiro, mainly due to not catching S. lilium, which is its primary host (WENZEL, 1976).…”

Ecologia de moscas ectoparasitas (Diptera, Streblidae e Nycteribiidae) de morcegos (Mammalia, Chiroptera) em áreas de Cerrado do Brasil Central

“…No Brasil, apesar de haver uma maior concentração de estudos com ectoparasitos de morcegos nas regiões sul e sudeste (Graciolli et al 2008), há um aumento recente no número de estudos em outras regiões, como o nordeste , Soares et al 2013) e o centro-oeste (Graciolli et al 2006, Eriksson et al 2011. O Distrito Federal, embora seja a menor unidade federativa, é a que apresenta o maior número de espécies de moscas ectoparasitas de morcegos registradas no Brasil (Graciolli et al 2008 (Ratter et al 1997).…”

“…Apesar de haver uma concentração de estudos de ectoparasitos de morcegos principalmente nas regiões sul e sudeste do Brasil (Graciolli et al 2006), está ocorrendo um aumento recente de estudos em outras regiões, como nordeste , Soares et al 2013) e centro-oeste (Graciolli et al 2006, Eriksson et al 2011 (Bush et al 1997), pois é nessa escala em que a interação entre as espécis de moscas ocorre (Tello et al 2008). …”