| Basilia fletcheri | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Nycteribiidae |
| Subfamily: | Nycteribiinae |
| Genus: | Basilia |
| Species: | B. fletcheri |
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| Basilia fletcheri (Scott, 1914) | |
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Basilia fletcheri is parasitic bat fly in the genus Basilia, in the subgenus Basilia. 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. In 1956, Oskar Theodor classified it as belonging to the Basilia Miranda-Ribeiro, 1903 genus, which is in the same subfamily as Penicillidia.
Range
It was discovered in Chennai. Scott later reported that Joseph Charles Bequaert sent him a specimen from Bengaluru, which Scott identified as this species, but Theodor later wrote this specimen was in fact B. punctuata; other places specimens have been collected include Navapur and Mumbai.
Hosts
Hosts which specimens have been collected from include: Dormer's bats Scotozous dormeri and Lesser bamboo bats Tylonycteris pachypus.
Description
It is about 2.5 mm long and has a yellowish color.
References
- 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.
- 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
External links
- Pape, Thomas; Thompson, F. Christian (20 May 2012). "Basilia (Basilia) fletcheri (Scott, 1914: 214)". Systema Dipterorum: The BioSystematic Database of World Diptera. 1.5. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
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