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

Occurrence Specimen
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Description

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.

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Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Jozef Oboňa
  • Originator
University of Prešov
  • Department of Ecology, Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences,
Prešov
SK
Arockianathan Samson
  • Originator
The Bombay Natural History Society
Rishi Kesavan
  • Originator
Government Arts College, Udhagamandalam
Anbazhagan Abinesh
  • Originator
Pondicherry University
Elangovan Vignesh
  • Originator
Government Arts College, Udhagamandalam
Mohammed Shahir
  • Originator
Government Arts College, Ooty
Nizamudheen Moinudheen
  • Originator
  • Independent Biologist in Nilgiri Hills
643 001
Tamil Nadu
IN
Azad Kamil
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
Ongil Nature Trust
  • 12 B, Umari Cottage, College Road,
643102 Coonoor, The Nilgiris
Tamil Nadu
IN

Geographic Coverage

Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu, India

Bounding Coordinates South West [11.41, 76.695], North East [11.41, 76.695]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Insecta
Order Diptera
Family Hippoboscidae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date 2026-02-04

Bibliographic Citations

  1. 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. https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.48.052

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