First record of Myophthiria zeylanica Maa, 1980 (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) from India

https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=myophthiria_zeylanica First record of Myophthiria zeylanica Maa, 1980 (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) from India Jozef Oboňa University of Prešov

Department of Ecology, Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences, Prešov SK

jozef.obona@unipo.sk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1185-658X Arockianathan Samson The Bombay Natural History Society kingvulture1786@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0804-7941 Rishi Kesavan Government Arts College, Udhagamandalam rishiintothewild27@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0009-0003-9939-968X Anbazhagan Abinesh Pondicherry University wildvoyager1996@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0337-7666 Elangovan Vignesh Government Arts College, Udhagamandalam vignesh040104@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6377-9864 Mohammed Shahir Government Arts College, Ooty m.d.s.shahir20@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3243-9997 Nizamudheen Moinudheen Independent Biologist in Nilgiri Hills

Tamil Nadu 643 001 IN

moinulepido@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5887-2395 Azad Kamil Ongil Nature Trust

12 B, Umari Cottage, College Road, Coonoor, The Nilgiris Tamil Nadu 643102 IN

2026-05-05 eng Myophthiria is a highly specialised genus of brachypterous hippoboscid flies parasitising swifts and swiftlets (Apodidae). Myophthiria zeylanica Maa, 1980 has been considered endemic to Sri Lanka. Here we report the first record of M. zeylanica from India, based on a single female collected from an Indian swiftlet (Aerodramus unicolor (Jerdon, 1840)) found dead during a field visit in the Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu, at 2238 m a.s.l. The specimen was identified based on external morphology following Maa (1980). This record provides new distributional data for this rarely collected swiftlet-associated louse-fly. Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml Specimen GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction. Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0.html CC0-1.0 Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu, India 76.695 76.695 11.41 11.41 2026-02-04 2026-02-04 phylum Arthropoda class Insecta order Diptera kingdom Animalia family Hippoboscidae asNeeded Azad Kamil Ongil Nature Trust

12 B, Umari Cottage, College Road, Coonoor, The Nilgiris Tamil Nadu 643102 IN

2026-05-05T10:39:31.869+00:00 dataset Oboňa, J., Samson, A., Rishi, K., Abinesh, A., Vignesh, E., Saran, M., Shahir, M., Moinudheen, N., & Kamil, A. (2026). First record of Myophthiria zeylanica Maa, 1980 (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) from India. Historia Naturalis Bulgarica, 48(5), 115–119.