Basilia italica Theodor 1954

• Main Authors: Péter, Áron, Mihalca, Andrei Daniel, Sándor, Attila D.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Hippoboscidae; Basilia; Basilia italica; Barbastella barbastellus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6394000; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B09745FF8AFFF2FF30FDF401ECD4C7

Basilia italica Theodor, 1954 Published records. Ic Ponor, 1 female, 1 male, host Myotis mystacinus (Kuhl) (Péter et al. 2021). Material examined. Aghireșu, 02.09.2020, 1 female; Peștera Mare de la Merești, 02.09.2020, 1 male; host in both cases Barbastella barbastellus (Schreber). Distribution. Southern and Central Europe. Rare in Romania, collected only at three distinct sites. Remarks. A rare fly species, mostly recorded on forest-dwelling, small-sized bat species. Its primary hosts are Myotis brandtii (Eversmann) and My. mystacinus , with several records also from Myotis alcathoe von Helversen & Heller and six other species (Szentiványi et al. 2016). Published as part of Péter, Áron, Mihalca, Andrei Daniel & Sándor, Attila D., 2022, Annotated checklist of the bat flies (Diptera: Nycteribiidae) of Romania, pp. 111-127 in Zootaxa 5120 (1) on page 115, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5120.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/6388954