| how do ectoparasitic nycteribiids locate their bat hosts? | nycteribiids (diptera: nycteribiidae) are specific haematophagous ectoparasites of bats, which spend nearly all their adult lives on hosts. however, females have to leave bats to deposit their larva on the walls of the roosts, where they later emerge as adult flies. nycteribiids had thus to evolve efficient sensorial mechanisms to locate hosts from a distance. we studied the sensory cues involved in this process, experimentally testing the role of specific host odours, and general cues such as c ... | 2008 | 18664305 |
| bat ectoparasites (nycteribiidae, streblidae, siphonaptera, heteroptera, mesostigmata, argasidae, and ixodidae) from algeria. | twenty two species of ectoparasites (family nycteribiidae: nycteribia (listropoda) schmidlii schmidlii, nycteribia (nycteribia) latreillii, nycteribia (nycteribia) pedicularia, penicillidia (penicillidia) dufourii, and phthiridium biarticulatum; family streblidae: brachytarsina (brachytarsina) flavipennis and raymondia huberi; order siphonaptera: rhinolophopsylla unipectinata arabs, nycteridopsylla longiceps, araeopsylla gestroi, ischnopsyllus intermedius, and ischnopsyllus octactenus; order het ... | 2017 | 28504443 |