Dick Carl W, Verrett Taylor B, Webala Paul W, Patterson Bruce D
Department of Biology, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 42101, USA Western Kentucky University Bowling Green United States of America.
Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL 60605, USA Field Museum of Natural History Chicago United States of America.
Zookeys. 2023 Jul 13;1169:65-85. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1169.102800. eCollection 2023.
Bat flies (Diptera: Nycteribiidae and Streblidae) are hematophagous ectoparasites of bats characterized by viviparous pupiparity and generally high host specificity. Nycteribiid bat flies are wingless, morphologically constrained, and are most diverse in the Eastern Hemisphere. Africa hosts approximately 22% of global bat biodiversity and nearly one-third of all African bat species occur in Kenya, one of Africa's most bat-rich countries. However, records of nycteribiid bat fly diversity in Kenya remain sparse and unconsolidated. This paper combines all past species records of nycteribiid bat flies with records from a survey of 4,255 Kenyan bats across 157 localities between 2006 and 2015. A total of seven nycteribiid genera and 17 species are recorded, with seven species from the recent 'Bats of Kenya' surveys representing previously undocumented country records. Host associations and geographic distributions based on all available records are also described. This comprehensive species catalog addresses and further emphasizes the need for similar investigations of nycteribiid biodiversity across Africa.
蝙蝠蝇（双翅目：蝠蝇科和蛛蝇科）是蝙蝠的吸血外寄生虫，其特征为卵胎生，且通常具有较高的宿主特异性。蝠蝇科蝙蝠蝇无翅，形态受限，在东半球最为多样。非洲拥有全球约22%的蝙蝠生物多样性，近三分之一的非洲蝙蝠物种分布在肯尼亚，肯尼亚是非洲蝙蝠种类最为丰富的国家之一。然而，肯尼亚蝠蝇科蝙蝠蝇多样性的记录仍然稀少且未整合。本文将过去所有蝠蝇科蝙蝠蝇的物种记录与2006年至2015年间对肯尼亚157个地点的4255只蝙蝠进行调查的记录相结合。共记录了7个蝠蝇科属和17个物种，其中最近“肯尼亚蝙蝠”调查中的7个物种代表了该国此前未记录的记录。还描述了基于所有现有记录的宿主关联和地理分布。这份全面的物种目录阐述并进一步强调了对非洲各地蝠蝇科生物多样性进行类似调查的必要性。
