Toshkova Nia, Zlatkov Boyan, Fakirova Albena, Zhelyazkova Violeta, Simov Nikolay
National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Sofia Bulgaria.
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Sofia Bulgaria.
Biodivers Data J. 2022 Jul 20;10:e89514. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.10.e89514. eCollection 2022.
Healthy wing membranes are essential for bats. They are critical for maintaining the water balance and, during hibernation, they protect the bat's body from dehydration. Assessing the state of the membrane visually is an easy and effective way to monitor a bat's health and discover abnormal structures and infections in wild bat populations. During pre- and post-hibernation surveys of bats' wings, we identified the presence of skin mites, (Fain, 1959). The parasite causes cutaneous lesions on the wing membranes of the greater moused-eared bat, (Borkhausen, 1797) and the lesser moused-eared bat, (Tomes, 1857). The lesser mouse-eared bat is a new host for this parasite. Our study is the first to describe the histopathology of the infection on the wings of the greater and lesser mouse-eared bats. To our knowledge, this is the southernmost record of this parasite and the first mention of the genus for the Balkans.
健康的翼膜对蝙蝠至关重要。它们对于维持水分平衡至关重要，并且在冬眠期间，它们保护蝙蝠的身体免于脱水。通过视觉评估翼膜的状态是监测蝙蝠健康以及发现野生蝙蝠种群中异常结构和感染的一种简单而有效的方法。在对蝙蝠翅膀进行冬眠前和冬眠后的调查期间，我们发现了皮肤螨的存在，（法恩，1959年）。这种寄生虫会在大耳鼠耳蝠（博尔豪森，1797年）和小耳鼠耳蝠（托姆斯，1857年）的翼膜上引起皮肤病变。小耳鼠耳蝠是这种寄生虫的新宿主。我们的研究首次描述了大耳和小耳鼠耳蝠翅膀上感染的组织病理学。据我们所知，这是该寄生虫在最南端的记录，也是巴尔干地区首次提及该属。
