Basilia fletcheri
| Basilia fletcheri | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Nycteribiidae |
| Subfamily: | Nycteribiinae |
| Genus: | Basilia |
| Species: | B. fletcheri
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| Binomial name | |
| Basilia fletcheri (Scott, 1914)
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Basilia fletcheri is parasitic bat fly in the family Hippoboscidae[1][2] or alternatively, family Nycteribiidae.[3] It is found in India.
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.[4] In 1956, Oskar Theodor classified it as belonging to the Basilia Miranda-Ribeiro, 1903 genus, which is in the same subfamily as Penicillidia.[5]
Range
It was discovered in Chennai.[4] Scott later reported that Joseph Charles Bequaert sent him a specimen from Bengaluru, which Scott identified as this species,[6] but Theodor later wrote this specimen was in fact B. punctuata; other places specimens have been collected include Navapur and Mumbai.[5]
Hosts
Hosts which specimens have been collected from include Dormer's bats (Scotozous dormeri) and lesser bamboo bats (Tylonycteris pachypus).[5]
Description
It is about 2.5 mm long and has a yellowish color.[4][5]
References
- ^ Evenhuis, Neal L. & Pape, Thomas, eds. (10 December 2024). "Basilia (Basilia) fletcheri (Scott, 1914)". Systema Dipterorum (5.6). Retrieved 8 September 2025.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ a b c d 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.
- ^ Scott, Hugh (1917). "Notes on Nycteribiidae, with Descriptions of Two New Genera". Parasitology. 9 (4): 605. doi:10.1017/S0031182000006211.
Further reading
- Scott, Hugh (1925). "Zoo-Geographical and Systematic Notes on The Nycteribiidae (Diptera Pupipara) of India, Ceylon and Burma" (PDF). Records of the Indian Museum. 27 (5): 353, 358, 365. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 September 2017.