Ornithomya comosa (Austen, 1930)

Nartshuk, E. P., Matyukhin, A. V., Shokhrin, V. P. & Markovets, M. Yu., 2019, New records of ornithophilous louse-flies (Diptera: Hippoboscidae: Ornithomyinae) from the Russian Far East, Far Eastern Entomologist 384, pp. 15-20 : 18

Ornithomya comosa (Austen, 1930)

Fig. 3

MATERIAL. Russia: Primorskii krai, Terney district, Dzhigitovka River, 44˚50'11"N,

136˚2'39"E, 08.IX 2014, 2♂, 1♀, on Delichon dasypus (Bonaparte, 1850) (leg. Markovets);

Lazo district , Glazkovka village, 19.VIII 2018 10♂, 4♀, 7 puparia, in the nests of Cercopis daurica (Laxmann, 1769) (leg. Shokhrin) .

2 – imago, dorsal view; 3 – Ornithomya comosa (Austen, 1830) , imago, dorsal view. (1, 2 –

photo: N.E. Vikhrev, 3 – photo: A. V. Kovalev).

NOTES. Ornithomya comosa is obligate specific parasite of birds of the family Hirundinidae . The species was described from India (Pusa, Bihar) where collected from sand martin

Riparia chinensis (Grey, 1830) (Hirundinidae) and distributed in India, Malaya, Nepal, and

Thailand (Austen, 1930; Maa, 1977). Doszhanov (1970, 2003) found this species in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia (Siberia: Novosibirsk). The species was found also in Japan

(Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukuy Islands) (Mogi, 2014). Here it is recorded from the Russian Far

East for the first time.

Figures

Figs 1–3. Ornithophylous louse flies. 1, 2 – Ornithoica exilis (Walker, 1861): 1 – wing;