Tella J L, Gajón A, Gortázar C, Osácar J J
Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Pabellón del Perú, Sevilla, Spain.
J Parasitol. 1998 Feb;84(1):198-200.
We looked for louse flies (Diptera, Hippoboscidae) in a mixed colony of 9 species of birds from 1991 to 1997. Alpine swifts (Apus melba) exhibited an unusually high prevalence (85.9%) by Crataerina melbae (Rondani, 1879). No birds from the other 8 breeding bird species were parasitized by this louse fly. We suggest that the number of potential swiftlike hosts as well as the size of hosts may account for the differential prevalence of the louse flies within the colony.
1991年至1997年期间，我们在一个由9种鸟类组成的混合鸟群中寻找虱蝇（双翅目，虱蝇科）。阿尔卑斯雨燕（Apus melba）被梅尔巴虱蝇（Crataerina melbae，龙达尼，1879）寄生的患病率异常高（85.9%）。其他8种繁殖鸟类均未被这种虱蝇寄生。我们认为，潜在的类似雨燕的宿主数量以及宿主的大小可能是导致该鸟群中虱蝇患病率存在差异的原因。
