| 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 |
| which factors regulate the reproduction of ectoparasites of temperate-zone cave-dwelling bats? | we studied the factors which regulate the reproduction of ectoparasites of temperate-zone cave-dwelling bats, using the schreiber's bat (miniopterus schreibersii) and its ectoparasites as a model. for this, we searched 969 bats during 2003 and 2004 at important stages of the bat yearly cycle and found four ectoparasite species regularly occurring on them: two nycteribiids (nycteribia schmidlii and penicillidia conspicua), one wing mite (spinturnix psi), and one hard tick (ixodes simplex simplex) ... | 2008 | 18779978 |
| parasites of parasites of bats: laboulbeniales (fungi: ascomycota) on bat flies (diptera: nycteribiidae) in central europe. | bat flies (streblidae and nycteribiidae) are among the most specialized families of the order diptera. members of these two related families have an obligate ectoparasitic lifestyle on bats, and they are known disease vectors for their hosts. however, bat flies have their own ectoparasites: fungi of the order laboulbeniales. in europe, members of the nycteribiidae are parasitized by four species belonging to the genus arthrorhynchus. we carried out a systematic survey of the distribution and fun ... | 2017 | 28222795 |