Unnoticed arrival of two dipteran species in Austria: the synanthropic moth fly Clogmia albipunctata (Williston, 1893) and the parasitic bird louse fly Ornithoica turdi (Olivier in Latreille, 1811)

Abstract

In the framework of a mosquito-monitoring program conducted from 2014 to 2018, non-culicid dipteran bycatch was identified to species-level with a focus on Diptera of medical and veterinary importance as part of a biodiversity initiative and barcoding project ("Austrian Barcode of Life"). Two species hitherto not known from Austria, the regularly sampled synanthropic moth fly Clogmia albipunctata (Psychodidae) and a single specimen of the louse fly Ornithoica turdi (Hippoboscidae), were collected in Vienna and Lower Austria. We confirmed identification results using a barcoding approach and provide the first reference sequence for O. turdi.

Updated taxonomic keys for European Hippoboscidae (Diptera), and expansion in Central Europe of the bird louse fly Ornithomya comosa (Austen, 1930) with the first record from Slovakia

“…Therefore, we believe that the parasite does not have to come from the spring migration but, on the contrary, from the summer/autumn migration (possibly also from the Kaliningrad area). A similar phenomenon is recorded for the non-native species Ornithoica turdi (Olivier in Latreille, 1811) (e.g., records from Vienna from August, see Zittra et al (2020) ) transported by hosts from wintering grounds in Africa. The relatively late record after migration from the wintering grounds has two possible explanations.…”

Hippobosca equina L. (Hippoboscidae: Hippobosca)—An Old Enemy as an Emerging Threat in the Palearctic Zone

“…The presence of adult hippoboscid flies in the environment exhibits strong seasonality in some areas [ 19 ]. In temperate climate regions, the species have a seasonal summer pattern during the warmer season from May to October [ 22 , 23 ], as confirmed by research showing that the maximum infestation extensiveness by H. equina occurred on July 28 in mares (80%) and on July 26 (90%) and August 16 (70%) in foals [ 15 ]. The extensiveness of invasion of the species decreased towards the end of the period, i.e., it decreased from 53.3 to 93.3% in June-July to about 27% in September in young stallions and from over 92% in July and August to 30.8% in September in young mares.…”

First record of Clogmia albipunctata and Atrichobrunettia (Mirousiella) graeca (Diptera: Psychodidae) from Romania, with the updated checklist of non-Phlebotominae species

“…Expansive, often synanthropic, circumtropical and circumsubtropical species (e.g. Ježek & Goutner, 1995;Oboňa & Ježek, 2012;Humala & Polevoi, 2015;Afzan & Belqat, 2016;Bejarano & Estrada, 2016;Cazorla-Perfetti & Moreno, 2017;Ježek et al, 2018;Cazorla-Perfetti, 2019;Oboňa et al, 2019Oboňa et al, , 2021Salmela et al, 2019;Zittra et al, 2020;Morelli & Biscaccianti, 2021;Jaume-Schinkel et al, 2022;Martynov et al, 2022). Its occurrence in Romania has not yet been published.…”