Basilia fletcheri
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| Basilia fletcheri | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Nycteribiidae |
| Subfamily: | Nycteribiinae |
| Genus: | Basilia |
| Species: | B. fletcheri |
| Binomial name | |
| Basilia fletcheri (Scott, 1914) | |
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Basilia fletcheri is parasitic bat fly in the family Hippoboscidae[1][2] or alternatively, family Nycteribiidae.[3] It is found in India.
Hugh Scott described this species in 1914. He named it after its collector, Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher. Two specimens, a male and a female, were discovered on a Dormer's bat in Tamil Nadu, India. Scott placed this species in the genus Penicillidia Kolenati, 1863.[4] In 1956, Oskar Theodor classified it as belonging to the Basilia Miranda-Ribeiro, 1903 genus, which is in the same subfamily as Penicillidia.[5]
Range
It was discovered in Chennai.[4] Scott later reported that Joseph Charles Bequaert sent him a specimen from Bengaluru, which Scott identified as this species,[6] but Theodor later wrote this specimen was in fact B. punctuata; other places specimens have been collected include Navapur and Mumbai.[5]
Hosts
Hosts which specimens have been collected from include Dormer's bats (Scotozous dormeri) and lesser bamboo bats (Tylonycteris pachypus).[5]
