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Streblidae
The Streblidae are a family of flies in the superfamily Hippoboscoidea, and together with their relatives the Nycteribiidae, are known as bat flies. They are winged or wingless ectoparasites of bats, and often have long legs. They appear to be host-specific, with different species of bat flies occurring only on particular species of bat hosts, sometimes with multiple species of flies sharing a host bat. Systematics The 237 or so species are divided among roughly 33 genera and five subfamilies. The monophyly of this family has not been supported. The streblid subfamily Trichobiinae may be more closely related to the Nycteriboscinae and other lineages in the Nycteribiidae. Several authors favor splitting the family into an Old World lineage consisting of the Ascodipterinae and Nycteriboscinae and a New World lineage containing all other subfamilies. The former would be named Ascodipterinae and the latter would retain the name Streblidae. Alternatively, the Streblidae and Nycter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nycteribiidae
Nycteribiidae is a family of the true fly superfamily Hippoboscoidea are known as "bat flies", together with their close relatives the Streblidae. As the latter do not seem to be a monophyletic group, it is conceivable that bat flies cannot be united into a single family. They are flattened, spiderlike flies without eyes or wings, and as such bear very little resemblance to other Dipterans. These flies are seldom encountered by general collectors, as they almost never leave the bodies of their hosts. Both males and females take blood meals, thus they qualify as real parasites. Most species are highly host-specific. The family is primarily found in the Old World tropics; a few of the 274 known species occur in the Neotropics and in Europe. Genera * Subfamily Archinycteribiinae Maa, 1975 :* '' Archinycteribia'' Speiser, 1901 *Subfamily Cyclopodiinae Maa, 1965 :* '' Cyclopodia'' Kolenati, 1863 :* '' Dipseliopoda'' Theodor, 1955 :* '' Eucampsipoda'' Kolenati, 1857 :* '' Leptocy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hippoboscoidea
Hippoboscoidea is a superfamily of the Calyptratae. The flies in this superfamily are blood-feeding obligate parasites of their hosts. Four families are often placed here: * Glossinidae - Tsetse flies *Hippoboscidae - Ked flies *Nycteribiidae - Bat flies *Streblidae - Bat flies (Note that the Mystacinobiidae, while also a bat fly, belongs to the superfamily Oestroidea). The Hippoboscidae are commonly called louse flies or ked flies. The bat flies are Nycteribiidae and Streblidae (along with Mystacinobiidae); the Streblidae are probably not monophyletic. The family Glossinidae, monotypic as to genus, contains the tsetse flies, economically important as the vectors of trypanosomiasis. The enigmatic Mormotomyiidae are believed to belong to the Ephydroidea and not to Hippoboscoidea as previously construed. In older literature, this group is often referred to as the Pupipara ("pupa A pupa ( la, pupa, "doll"; plural: ''pupae'') is the life stage of some insects undergoing transfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enischnomyia With Vetufebrus 1
''Enischnomyia'' is an extinct genus of bat fly in the family Streblidae. At the time of its description the new genus comprised a single species, ''Enischnomyia stegosoma'', known from a single Miocene fossil found on Hispaniola. ''E. stegosoma'' was the first fossil streblid bat fly described from a fossil, and the only member of the subfamily Nycterophiliinae described from Hispaniola. The species is host for the plasmodiid '' Vetufebrus ovatus'' preserved in its salivary glands and midgut. History and classification ''Enischnomyia stegosoma'' was described based on a single fossilised specimen which is preserved as an inclusion in a transparent chunk of Dominican amber. The amber is fossil resin that was produced by the extinct '' Hymenaea protera'', which formerly grew on Hispaniola, across northern South America and up to southern Mexico. The amber dates from the Burdigalian stage (20.43 ± 0.05 to 15.97 ± 0.05 million years ago) of the Miocene, and is recovered f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brachytarsina
''Brachytarsina'' is a genus of flies belonging to the family Streblidae. The species of this genus are found in Africa, Malesia Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the Equator and the boundaries of the Indomalayan and Australasian realms, and also a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical Kingdom. It has been given different definitions. Th ... and Australia. Species Species: *'' Brachytarsina adversa'' *'' Brachytarsina africana'' *'' Brachytarsina alluaudi'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q14605012 Hippoboscoidea genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich August Rudolph Kolenati
Friedrich August Rudolph Kolenati (12 September 1812 – 17 July 1864) was a Czechoslovakia, Czech-Ethnic Germans, German botanist and zoologist active primarily in Prague and Brno. Kolenati was born in Prague where he completed elementary school and high school, then after graduation from the Medical Faculty of Charles University as a student of the natural sciences, especially botany and entomology, he continued as an assistant in botany. In 1842 he moved to Russia as an assistant in zoology at the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences. From 1842 to 1845 he participated in explorations of the Caucasus, ranging from the Azov Sea to Nagorno-Karabakh, and later conducted a survey of the lower Don River (Russia), Don River. In 1845 Kolenati returned to Prague, where he was named an Associate Professor of Natural History. In 1848 he played an active part in the revolutionary events of the time, for which he was subsequently arrested. After his release from prison, he gave lectures in min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evolved
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. These characteristics are the expressions of genes, which are passed on from parent to offspring during reproduction. Variation tends to exist within any given population as a result of genetic mutation and recombination. Evolution occurs when evolutionary processes such as natural selection (including sexual selection) and genetic drift act on this variation, resulting in certain characteristics becoming more common or more rare within a population. The evolutionary pressures that determine whether a characteristic is common or rare within a population constantly change, resulting in a change in heritable characteristics arising over successive generations. It is this process of evolution that has given rise to biodiversity at every level of biological organisation, including the levels of species, individual organisms, and molecules. The theory of evolution by na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
