New records of ornithophilous louse-flies (Diptera: Hippoboscidae: Ornithomyinae) from the Russian Far East
Author
Nartshuk, E. P.
Author
Matyukhin, A. V.
Author
Shokhrin, V. P.
Author
Markovets, M. Yu.
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Far Eastern Entomologist
2019
2019-06-10
384
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http://dx.doi.org/10.25221/fee.384.4
journal article
10.25221/fee.384.4
2713-2196
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Ornithoica exilis
(Walker, 1861)
Figs 1, 2
MATERIAL.
Russia
: Primorskii krai, Ussuriysky (=Suputinsky) Natural Reserve, 2.X
1948,
2 specimens
, collected by
A.I. Kurentzov
without name of host bird (
ZIN
);
Ussuriysky district
,
Rakovka village
(=
Ussuri oblast
,
Voroshilov
rayon,
Rakovka
),
27.VII 1936
,
1♂
,
2♀
,
were taken from
Accipiter nisus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
and
1♀
from
Circus aeruginosus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
by
V
.E. (unfornunately failed to established exact name of collector) (
ZMMU
).
NOTES
.
Ornithoica exilis
was described from New
Guinea
and widely distributed in the
Oriental and Australian Regions and found in
Japan
(Honshu, Ryukyu Islands) (Mogi, 2014).
The species has awide host range: normally or less frequently breeding on members of the
Coraciiformes,
Passeriformes, Psittaciformes, Cuculiformes, Columbiformes and
Falconiformes, with stray records from Ciconiiformes, Galliformes,
Gruiformes, Strigiformes
,
Caprimulgiformes, Apodiformes, Trogoniformes and Piciformes (Maa, 1966). The species was found on the
Okinawa
Rail
Gallirallus okinawae
(
Gruiformes
:
Rallidae
) in
Okinawa
Island,
Japan
(Mogi, 2014). In
Russia
flies were collected at the end of July and in October.
It is likely that flies breed in Primorskii krai. Specimens brought by migrant birds may be taken in May or early June.