Colín-Martínez Helisama, Morales-Malacara Juan B, García-Estrada Carlos
Instituto de Ecología, Universidad del Mar, Km 1.5 de la carretera a Sola de Vega, C.P. 71980, Puerto Escondido, San Pedro Mixtepec, Juquila, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Lab. Espeleobiología y Acarología, Unidad Multidisciplinaria de Docencia e Investigación, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, campus Juriquilla, Boulevard Juriquilla 3001, C.P. 76230, Querétaro, México.
J Med Entomol. 2018 Jan 10;55(1):172-182. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjx186.
This is the first complete assessment of the ectoparasite fauna on phyllostomid bats in a shaded coffee plantation in Mexico. The study was carried out at Finca San Carlos, in the municipality of Tapachula, southeastern Chiapas, Mexico. The bats were captured over three consecutive nights every month, from December 2005 to November 2006, using four mist nets. We captured 192 phyllostomid bats, representing 18 species, upon which 1,971 ectoparasites, belonging to 11 families and 65 species, were found. We found that 160 of the 192 captured bats were hosts to ectoparasites, giving an infestation prevalence of 83.3%. Of the 65 ectoparasitic species, 14 were classified as monoxenous and 17 as stenoxenous. More ectoparasites were recorded in the dry season (n = 1,439) than the wet season (n = 532), and we recorded some families of ectoparasite on particular areas of the bat body. An ordination of bat species, based on their ectoparasitic species community structure, formed groups at the subfamily level or lower taxonomic categories. We suggest that the close ectoparasite-host relationships could be examined as an additional tool to elucidate the taxonomic relationships between the hosts.
这是对墨西哥一个遮荫咖啡种植园中叶口蝠体外寄生虫群落的首次全面评估。该研究在墨西哥恰帕斯州东南部塔帕丘拉市的圣卡洛斯庄园进行。从2005年12月至2006年11月，每月连续三个晚上使用四张雾网捕捉蝙蝠。我们捕获了192只叶口蝠，代表18个物种，在这些蝙蝠身上发现了1971只体外寄生虫，分属于11个科65个物种。我们发现192只捕获的蝙蝠中有160只是体外寄生虫的宿主，感染率为83.3%。在65种体外寄生虫物种中，14种被归类为单宿主性，17种为狭宿主性。旱季记录到的体外寄生虫（n = 1439）比雨季（n = 532）多，并且我们在蝙蝠身体的特定部位记录到了一些体外寄生虫科。基于体外寄生虫物种群落结构对蝙蝠物种进行的排序在亚科水平或更低分类类别上形成了不同的组。我们建议可以将紧密的体外寄生虫 - 宿主关系作为阐明宿主之间分类关系的一种额外工具来进行研究。
