Description of the external morphology of the puparia of eight species of bat flies (Diptera: Streblidae) |
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Authors: | Guilherme Douglas Piel Dornelles Marcelo Oscar Bordignon Gustavo Graciolli |
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Affiliation: | 1. Laboratório de Zoologia, Programa de Pós-Gradua??o em Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazildornelles_d@hotmail.comhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8103-2965;3. Laboratório de Zoologia, Programa de Pós-Gradua??o em Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazilhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6951-1058;4. Laboratório de Zoologia, Programa de Pós-Gradua??o em Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACTThe Dipteran family Streblidae are ectoparasites of bats. These flies are viviparous and have an intrauterine larval life phase, a free-living sessile puparium phase and the adult obligate parasite. Here we describe the external morphology of the puparium of Aspidoptera phyllostomatis (Perty, 1833), Megistopoda aranea (Coquillett, 1899), M. proxima (Séguy, 1826), Noctiliostrebla morena Alcantara et al., 2019, Paradyschiria parvula Falcoz, 1931, Strebla consocia Wenzel, 1966, Trichobius joblingi Wenzel, 1966 and T. longipes (Rudow, 1871) and provide an identification key. We also describe the method we developed for collecting the puparia, which was done between April 2015 and August 2016. The characters that most differentiated the species were spiracles and ornaments. |
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Keywords: | Hippoboscoidea immature stage taxonomy ectoparasites identification key |
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