Ectoparasitic insects (Diptera: Streblidae and Siphonaptera: Ischnopsyllidae) of bats from Iquitos and surrounding areas (Loreto, Peru)

ANALÍA G. AUTINO; CLAPS, G. L.; BARQUEZ RUBÉN M.; DÍAZ M. MÓNICA

MEMóRIAS DO INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ.

FUNDACO OSWALDO CRUZ

Lugar: Rio de Janeiro RJ Brazil; Año: 2011 vol. 106 p. 917 - 925

0074-0276

Here we add new species and extend the distributional limits of insect ectoparasite of bat to the fauna of Peru, based in specimens collected from bats of different families. New information is provided for the distribution of 26 species of parasites (25 Diptera and one Siphonaptera: Ischnopsyllidae). Four species (Neotrichobius ectophyllae, Strebla galindoi, Strebla paramirabilis and Myodopsylla w. wolffsohni) are new for Peru, and 20 represent new records for the Loreto Department. Also, we found 17 new host-ectoparasite relationships; the new associations between Neotrichobius delicatus and species of bats of the families Molossidae and Noctilionidae are remarkable, as well as that of Paradyschiria parvula on species of Vespertilionidae. Host-ectoparasite specificity was recorded considering 14 species as monoxenous, three oligoxenous, seven pleioxenous and two polixenous.