Pseudolynchia garzettae ( Rondani, 1879 )

Nartshuk, E. P., Matyukhin, A. V., Zabashta, A. V. & Zabashta, M. V., 2019, First record of louse fly Pseudolynchia garzettae Rondani, 1879 (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) in East Europe, Russian Entomological Journal 28 (1), pp. 91-92 : 91-92

Pseudolynchia garzettae ( Rondani, 1879)

= Olfersia rufipes Macquart, 1847 (partim).

= Pseudolynchia fradeorum Tendeiro, 1951 .

MATERIAL. 1♀ — Ukraine, fly was taken not on bird, by net in garden, 16.V.1899, leg. A.O. Graftio, det. Ya. D. Kirshenblat (collection of Zoological Museum, Moscow State University). A.O. Graftio made the map of locality, where he collected insects in 1899, and it permits us to determine exact coordinates 48°13.2133´N, 32°50.2403´E (selo Veselye Bokovenki, Dolinsky rayon Kirovogradskoi oblasti); 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀ — Russia, Rostov / Don (47°13.8812´N, 39°43.39682´E), 15.V.2017, on five specimens of Caprimulgus europaeus Linnaeus, 1758 , leg. A. V. Zabashta (1 ♂ and 2 ♀♀ — in the collection of Zoological institute of Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg; 2 ♀♀ — in the collection of A. V. Zabashta.

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NOTE. Pseudolynchia garzettae ( Rondani, 1879) was described from Italy, but the main range is in Africa south of Sahara ( Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Zimbabwe) and in Asia ( Thailand, China (Taiwan), Philippines). The species is repeatedly brought by migrant birds from Africa to southern Europe and from Asia to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Rare records are known in Egypt, Cyprus, southwestern Europe, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan [ McClure et al., 1973; Doszhanov, 2003]. As host are normally known birds of families Strigidae and Caprimulgidae , especially Caprimulgus affinis Hornsfeld, 1821 and C. macrurus Hornsfeld, 1821 [ McClure et al., 1973]. Doszhanov [2003] found flies also on Passer indicus Jardine et Selby, 1831 , P. hispaniolensis (Temmnick, 1820) , Burhinus oedicnemus (Linnaeus, 1758) , Oriolus oriolus (Linnaeus, 1758) , Accipiter nisus (Linnaeus, 1758) , Streptopelia orientalis (Latham, 1790) and Caprimulgus europaeus in Kazakhstan.

The species is rare in Western Europe and was found as one-two specimens in a few localities [ Theodor, Oldroyd, 1964]: Italy, Insubria (= Varese ), bird host unknown ( Rondani, 1879) ; France, Camargue: Bouches-du-Rhonex on Otus scopus (Linnaeus, 1758) , one specimen ; Switzerland, Mt. Saléve vic. Genéva on Caprimulgus europaeus , one specimen ; Cyprus — some specimens on Athene noctua (Scopoli, 1769) . These records need special attention as birds are residents, not migrants .

In Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Pseudolynchia garzettae is also rare and found only on migrant birds [ Doszhanov, 2003].

In Eastern Europe the species was never recorded.

P. garzettae is polyxenous species, but Caprimulgus europaeus and other species of the genus Caprimulgus Linnaeus, 1758 are favorite bird–hosts. Flies can move to resident birds of different families in new localities. All known records of P. garzettae in western Palearctic are mapped (Map).

Acknowledgements. The study was performed in the frames of the state research project AAAA-A19- 119020690082 - 8 , and supported by the Presidium RAS program no.41 “Biodiversity of natural systems and biological sources of Russia ”. Authors wish to express their thanks A.L. Ozerov ( Zoological Museum of Moscow State University ) for possibility to work with Hippoboscidae collection and to V. M. Loskot ( Zoological institute of RAS, St. Petersburg) for consultations on birds .