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Ecology of Insects Ectoparasitic on Bats

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Ecology of Bats

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About 6000 species of insects belonging to seven orders are known to be external parasites as adults of warm-blooded vertebrates. Of these, 687 described species of four orders are known to parasitize bats, with members of all the bat families except for three small ones (Craseonycteridae, Mystacinidae, and My-zopodidae) acting as hosts (Tables I and II). The six insect families involved (Fig. 1) are all exclusively associated with bats except for the Cimicidae: of the 89 species of cimicids known, 61 (68%) are parasitic upon bats (including the two species of bedbugs, Cimex hemipterus (F.) and C. lectularius L., commonly associated with man), and the remainder upon birds. Members of five of the six families have piercing-sucking mouthparts and feed on blood, and there is no doubt that they are truly parasitic; however, arixeniids have chewing mouthparts and feed on solid material such as skin detritus and host feces and may in fact be commensals rather than parasites. Three unusual families of Diptera, each containing a single species, have been reported from bat roosts: the Chiropteromyzidae in Finland, Mormotomyiidae in Kenya, and Mystacinobiidae in New Zealand (Holloway, 1976; Maa, personal communication). But in this review I assume these to be commensals and do not consider them further. For a more complete discussion of ectoparasite taxonomy see Marshall (1981a).

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