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Description of the young female and of the male of Ascodipteron africanum Jobling (Diptera, Streblidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

B. Jobling
B. Jobling
Affiliation:
Wellcome Entomological Field Laboratories, Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research, London
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There are about seven species of the genus Ascodipteron in the tropical parts of the Old World. Their endoparasitic females, which live embedded in the skin of bats, are not uncommon on certain species of the genera Emballonura, Hipposideros and especially of Rhinolophus and Miniopterus. The males, on the other hand, are extremely rare, and have never been taken on bats before. There is a description of the male of Ascodipteron speiserianum only, by Muir (1912), who bred this species in Amboina, Dutch East Indies.

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Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , November 1940 , pp. 399 - 404
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1940

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Jobling, B. (1939). On the African Streblidae (Diptera Acalypterae) including the morphology of the genus Ascodipteron Adens. and a description of a new species. Parasitology, 31, 147.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Muir, F. (1912). Two new species of Ascodipteron. Bull. Mus. camp. Zool. Harv. 54, 351.Google Scholar