Bats and Flies

Hello Reader,


I know what I said before, but this could apply to bats in Australia to, IF the case exist in there, what it dosen’t. Whatever, was something interesting that i saw in a random post by a random person and get curious, wanted proof of an article about this incredible case of a parasite:

<This is a fly in the face of a bat.

And i don’t remember seen about a fly without wing during my formation, so it caught my attention.

Going after information, like always, you have a block bay the fact you need to pay to red the entire article, so this is what i conclude with what i cold read.



Existe 275 species in the family Nycteribiidae, which is the one on the photo belongs. Whit i get veri impress because this family suggest that they haven’t wings (i don’t know if are a exception) and now i have 275 specie of flies without wings instead of one. And more than that we have another family Streblidae which also are wingless, but not all, then the number just increases. Both belong to the superfamily of Hippoboscoidea.



Apparently the first kind of this family of flies was discovered in 1796. And just more recently they are putting this family in har right place of the tree, thanks to genom.

<Since bats are in the entire glob (practly) 

I start to think:

Meaby those parasites,in the parts of the globe you can find them, they are making in all places the transmission of diseases in the colonies of bats. But i will never really know becas i need artigals from all the glob or experiments who confirm that, so will stay just with a hipotesis. The only case I see is true is with Polychromophilus in Gabon - Africa, becas is from there the article and whit that specifc species from the study.




~catch you later!




References:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790307001418?via%3Dihub
Frederik Torp Petersen, Rudolf Meier, Sujatha Narayanan Kutty, Brian M. Wiegmann, The phylogeny and evolution of host choice in the Hippoboscoidea (Diptera) as reconstructed using four molecular markers, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 111-122, ISSN 1055-7903, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2007.04.023.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4902993/
Obame-Nkoghe, Judicaël et al. “Bat Flies (Diptera: Nycteribiidae and Streblidae) Infesting Cave-Dwelling Bats in Gabon: Diversity, Dynamics and Potential Role in Polychromophilus Melanipherus Transmission.” Parasites & Vectors 9 (2016): 333. PMC. Web. 31 Jan. 2018.

https://www.fieldmuseum.org/sites/default/files/Dick%20&%20Patterson%202006%20MicromammalsMacroparasites.pdf
Carl W. Dick and Bruce D. Patterson. Micromammals and Macroparasites From Evolutionary Ecology to Management. Springer-Verlag. 2006.