Ornithoctona australasiae (Fabricius, 1805)

Nartshuk, E. P., Matyukhin, A. V. & Redkin, Ya. A., 2018, Association of the louse-flies of the genus Ornothoctona Speiser, 1902 (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) with birds and first record of O. australasiae (Fabricius, 1805) from the Russian Far East, Far Eastern Entomologist 355, pp. 23-28 : 24-25

Ornithoctona australasiae (Fabricius, 1805)

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DISTRIBUTION. South-East Asia (from Malaya to Solomon Islands), Japan (Honshu),

Kazakhstan, Russia (new record).

FAMILIES OF THE HOST BIRDS. Alcedinidae , Artamidae , Campephagidae , Columbidae , Dicruridae , Falconidae , Hirundinidae , Laniidae , Meliphagidae , Motacillidae , Muscicapidae (chiefly), Paradisaeidae , Paridae , Picidae , Pittidae , Ptilonorhynchidae , Pycnonotidae ,

Sturnidae , Timaliidae , Zosteropidae .

NOTES. In the Palaearctic region O. australasiae was recorded from Kazakhstan and

Japan. One male and two females were taken from Accipiter nisus 29.IV 1974 in Makhambet

(Ural River) and one female from Riparia riparia , 22.V 1972 in Shakpak Pass (Karatau

Ridge ) in Kazakhstan (Doszhanov, 2003). Here this species is recorded from Russia for the first time. A female was taken from Passer rutilans 4.VII 1962 on Kunashir Island ( V. Ne-

chaev) (coll. Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg); another female was taken from Ficedula mugimaki , 2.VI 2010 in the low stream of Bauri River, Noglinsky rayon, Sakhalin ( Red’kin )

(coll. of A. Matyukhin). Record from Sakhalin is the most northern locality (51°58′49″ N,

143°07′04″ E) for this species. The nearest southern locality is Japan, one female, Mt. Fuji ,

ex Parus minor minor , apparently straggler (Maa, 1967, 1969). Bird species of 38 genera are known as host of this louse-fly. Birds Passer rutilans and Ficedula mugimaki are migrants on

Kunashir and Sakhalin Islands, and spend winter period in the South-East Asia, where situated the main range of O. australasiae . Both birds make its nests on Kuril Islands and Sakhalin.

Probably some southern populations of Passer rutilans are resident of the Russian Far East.

Figures

Fig. 1. Ornithoctona australasiae (Fabricius, 1805), specimen from Kunashir (photo by V. Neimorovits).

Fig. 2. Records of Ornithoctona australasiae (Fabricius, 1805) in the Palearctic region.