Nycteribia pedicularia Latreille, 1805

Péter, Áron, Mihalca, Andrei Daniel & Sándor, Attila D., 2022, Annotated checklist of the bat flies (Diptera: Nycteribiidae) of Romania, Zootaxa 5120 (1), pp. 111-127 : 117

Nycteribia pedicularia Latreille, 1805

Published records. Peștera Fușteica ( Burghele-Bălăcescu 1966); Peștera Liliecilor ( Negrea et al. 1967); Peştera Gaura cu Muscă, Peștera Lazului ( Haelewaters et al. 2017; Sándor et al. 2018; McKee et al. 2019), host Mi. schreibersii . Peștera Topolnița ( Decu-Burghele 1962), Peștera Liliecilor-Carașova, Peștera Fușteica (Burghele-Bălăcescu 1966); Peștera Gaura cu Muscă, Peștera Hoților, Peștera Lazului ( Haelewaters et al. 2017; Sándor et al. 2018; McKee et al. 2019), host My. capaccinii . Peștera de la Izverna, Peștera Fușteica ( Burghele-Bălăcescu 1966); Peștera Mare din Satul Peștera ( Gheorghiu 2006), host My. myotis . Peștera Fuşteica ( Decu-Burghele 1962), host Rhinolophus blasii Peters. Peștera Topolnita ( Decu-Burghele 1962) , host P. auritus .

Material examined. Peștera Gaura cu Muscă, 08.05.2017, 1 male, host Mi.schreibersii . Peștera Gaura Ungurului de la Pecinișca, 26.09.2017, 1 female, 2 males, host My. capaccinii . Peștera Mare de la Merești, 05.05.2017, 2 females, 1 male, host My. daubentonii .

Distribution. A relatively common nycteribiid species with a southerly distribution, mainly in the Balkans, Apennines and Iberian Peninsula, with scattered records in Central Europe ( Szentiványi et al. 2016). It has been primarily recorded in the southwestern part of Romania, with 10 distinct geographical records altogether.

Remarks. The typical ectoparasite of My. capaccinii in Europe and North Africa, also collected from other cavedwelling species present in the same roosts as its primary host. Here, we report two new host-parasite relationships for this species, which to our knowledge had never been recorded from R. blasii and P. auritus ( Szentiványi et al. 2016) .