Nycteribia schmidlii Schiner, 1853

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Nycteribia schmidlii Schiner, 1853

Published records. ‘Banat’—likely Peștera Gaura cu Muscă ( Kolenati 1857b, as Nycteribia blasii ), Munții Bihor (“Bihar”) [ Dudich 1925, as Nycteribia blasii ( Kolenati, 1863) ], Peștera Fuşteica, Peştera Liliecilor din Mănăstirea BistrițaPeștera ( Decu-Burghele 1962); Peștera Liliecilor de la Gura Dobrogei ( Rădulescu & Lustun 1964); Peștera Topolnita, Peștera de la Apa Spânzurată, Peștera Liliecilor de la Gura Dobrogei, Peștera de la Românești, Peștera Fușteica, Peștera Lazului, Peștera Șura Mare, Peștera Liliecilor-Carașova, PeșteraPeștera BulbaPeștera (Burghele-Bălăcescu 1966); Peștera Gaura cu Muscă, Peștera Românești, Peștera Liliecilor ( Negrea et al. 1967); Peştera Meziad ( Willemsen & Thomassen 2009); Avenul Betfia, Canaraua Fetii, Peștera Tunel de la Hagieni, Peștera Hoților, Peștera Gaura cu Muscă, Peștera Gaura Ungurului de la Pecinișca, Peștera Hoților, Peștera Lazului, Peștera Liliecilor de la Gura Dobrogei, Peștera Tunel de la Hagieni, Somova ( Haelewaters et al. 2017; Sándor et al. 2018; McKee et al. 2019), host Mi. schreibersii . Peștera Liliecilor de la Gura Dobrogei ( Haelewaters et al. 2017; Sándor et al. 2018; McKee et al. 2019), host My. blythii .Peștera Gaura cu Muscă ( Haelewaters et al. 2017; Sándor et al. 2018; McKee et al. 2019), host My. capaccinii . Peștera Liliecilor de la Peștera Liliecilor de la Gura Dobrogei, Peștera Gaura Haiducească ( Decu-Burghele 1962); Peștera Gaura cu Muscă ( Negrea et al. 1967); Peștera Liliecilor-Carașova ( Burghele-Bălăcescu 1966); Peștera Liliecilor ( Negrea et al. 1967); Tunelul de la Carieră, Peștera Urșilor, Peștera Mare din Satul Peștera ( Gheorghiu 2006), host My. myotis . Peștera Despicătură ( Haelewaters et al. 2017; Sándor et al. 2018; McKee et al. 2019), host Rhinolophus hipposideros (Bechstein) . Peștera Liliecilor de la PeșteraGura Dobrogei ( Decu-Burghele 1962), Malcoci ( Theodor 1967), host P. auritus . Peștera Limanu (Dumitrescu et. al. 1965); Peștera Vacilor din Șteiul Orzeștilor ( Decu-Burghele 1963); Peștera Liliecilor de la Mănăstirea Bistrița, Peștera Fușteica, Peștera Bulba ( Burghele-Bălăcescu 1966), host unknown.

Material examined. Avenul Betfia, 07.05.2019, 12 females, 4 males; 07.09.2019, 21 females, 8 males ; Bánffy Castle (Bontida), 20.10.2017, 18 females, 11 males; Canaraua Fetii, 27.04.2019, 6 females, 3 males; 21.09.2019, 26 females, 18 males ; 21.04.2020, 8 females, 9 males; Gilău, 14.08.2017, 2 females, 1 male; Peștera Liliecilor de la Gura Dobrogei, 19.05.2017, 7 females, 2 males; 24.04.2019, 2 females, 3 males ; 27.04.2019, 17 females, 17 males; Peștera Tunel de la Hagieni, 20.09.2019, 52 females, 44 males; Mocrea, 08.05.2019, 19 females, 12 males; 08.09.2019, 30 females, 15 males ; 16.10.2019, 97 females, 79 males; 18.09.2020, 112 females, 71 males; Peștera Gaura cu Muscă, 08.05.2017, 3 females, 1 male; Peștera Măgurici, 02.05.2017, 15 females, 3 males; 02.08.2018, 9 females, 1 male ; Sasca Montană, 04.09.2017, 20 females, 13 males; Somova, 18.09.2019, 5 females, 3 males; Țifra, 13.05.2019, 3 females, 1 male; 28.04.2020, 21 females , female 22 males, host Mi. schreibersii . Canaraua Fetii, 02.08.2018, 1 male, host My. blythii . Somova, 18.09.2019, 1 male, host My. daubentonii . Sasca Montana, 04.09.2017, 1 female, 1 male, host R. ferrumequinum . Sitorman, 25.05.2019, 1 male, host Plecotus austriacus (Fischer) .

Distribution. A relatively common nycteribiid with a southerly distribution, mainly in the Balkans, Apennines and Iberian Peninsula, with scattered records in Central Europe ( Szentiványi et al. 2016) and common also in Africa. In Romania it has been recorded all over the country, with 31 distinct geographical records altogether.

Remarks. One of the typical ectoparasites of Mi. schreibersii and other Miniopterus Bonaparte spp. in Europe and North Africa, also collected from other cave-dwelling species present in the same roosts as its primary hosts. Here, we report a new host-parasite relationship for this species, which to our knowledge had never been recorded from P. austriacus ( Szentiványi et al. 2016) .