Nycteribia vexata Westwood 1835
Creators: name: Péter, Áron
name: Mihalca, Andrei Daniel
name: Sándor, Attila D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Hippoboscidae
Nycteribia
Nycteribia vexata

description: Nycteribia vexata Westwood, 1835
Published records. Peștera Gaura cu Muscă (Kolenati 1857b), Peștera Liliecilor de la Gura Dobrogei (Burghele-Bălăcescu 1966); Canaraua Fetii, Avenul Betfia (Haelewaters et al. 2017; Sándor et al. 2018; McKee et al. 2019), host Mi. schreibersii. Peștera Liliecilor de la Gura Dobrogei (Burghele-Bălăcescu 1966), Peștera de la Despicătură (Gheorghiu 2006); Peştera cu Apă din Valea Leşului (Postawa & Nagy 2016); Canaraua Fetii, Peștera Gaura cu Muscă, Peștera Liliecilor de la Gura Dobrogei, Leghia, Sasca Montană (Haelewaters et al. 2017; Sándor et al. 2018; McKee et al. 2019), host My. blythii. Peștera Fușteica (Burghele-Bălăcescu 1966), host My. capaccinii. Peștera Fuşteica, Peştera de la Izverna, Peștera Dracului de la Paroșeni, Peștera Liliecilor de la Gura Dobrogei (Decu-Burghele 1962); Peștera de la Izvorul Tăușoarelor, Peștera Topolnita, Peștera lui Duțu, Peștera de la Izverna, Peștera Fușteica, Peștera Gaura lui Cocolbea (Burghele-Bălăcescu 1966); Peștera Mare din Satul Peștera, Tunelul de la Carieră (Peștera) (Gheorghiu 2006); Peștera cu Apă din Valea Leşului (Postawa & Nagy 2016); Avenul Betfia, Canaraua Fetii, Peștera Gaura cu Muscă, Peștera Mare de la Merești (Haelewaters et al. 2017; Sándor et al. 2018; McKee et al. 2019), host My. myotis. Geoagiu (Roman baths), Peştera Gaura cu Muscă (Haelewaters et al. 2017; Sándor et al. 2018; McKee et al. 2019), host R. euryale. Peștera Mare de la Merești, Gilău (Haelewaters et al. 2017; Sándor et al. 2018; McKee et al. 2019), host R. ferrumequinum. Băile Herculane/Herculesbad (Theodor 1967); Peştera Meziad/Mézesdi barlang (Thalhammer 1899, Bokor 1921, Dudich 1925); Peștera Liliecilor de la Mănăstirea Bistrita (Burghele-Bălăcescu 1966), no host recorded.
Material examined. Avenul Betfia, 20.04.2019, 3 females, 1 male, host Mi. schreibersii. Peștera Mare de la Merești, 23.08.2019, 2 females, host My. bechsteinii. Avenul Betfia, 07.05.2019, 1 male; Canaraua Fetii, 22.05.2017, 1 male; 02.08.2018, 7 females, 11 males; 27.04.2019, 1 female, 2 males; 20.09.2019, 1 male; 21.04.2020, 11 females, female 12 males; Peștera Liliecilor de la Gura Dobrogei, 19.04.2017, 1 female, 1 male; Leghia, 04.05.2018, 5 females; Peștera de la Întorsuri, 21.09.2020, 1 female, Peștera Lócsűr (Cheile Vârghișului), 02.09.2020, 2 females; Peștera Măgurici, 02.05.2017, 3 females, 2 males, host My. blythii. Canaraua Fetii, 02.08.2018, 1 female, 2 males, host My. daubentonii. Avenul Betfia, 07.05.2019, 39 females, 29 males; Canaraua Fetii, 02.08.2018, 4 females, 6 males; 21.04.2020, 6 females, 1 male; Gilău, 04.05.2017, 1 female, 1 male; 14.08.2017, 1 female; Peștera de la Gălășeni, 23.09.2020, 10 females, 3 males; Peștera de la Întorsuri, 21.09.2020, 4 females, 3 males; Peștera Măgurici, 02.05.2017, 1 male; Peștera Mare de la Merești, 23.08.2019, 1 male; 02.09.2020, 3 females, 2 males; Peștera Osoi, 22.09.2020, 1 female, 1 male; Țifra, 28.04.2020, 2 females, 2 males, host My. myotis. Canaraua Fetii, 20.09.2019, 3 females, 3 males; Peștera Mare de la Merești, 02.09.2020, 2 females, 2 males, host My. nattereri.
Distribution. One of the most widespread nycteribiid species in Europe, western Asia and North Africa (Szentiványi et al. 2016). Common in Romania, collected from all historical regions with 27 distinct geographical records altogether.
Remarks. One of the typical ectoparasites of the two largest Myotis in Europe (My. blythii and My. myotis), also frequently collected from other cave-dwelling species present in the same roosts as its primary hosts. Here, we report two new host-parasite relationships for this species, which to our knowledge had never been recorded from My. capaccinii and My. nattereri (Szentiványi et al. 2016).
description: Published as part of Péter, Áron, Mihalca, Andrei Daniel & Sándor, Attila D., 2022, Annotated checklist of the bat flies (Diptera: Nycteribiidae) of Romania, pp. 111-127 in Zootaxa 5120 (1) on pages 118-119, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5120.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/6388954