Streblidae (Diptera) on bats (Chiroptera) in an area of Atlantic Forest, state of Rio de JaneiroBecause of the few records of Streblidae on bats, despite extensive study on these mammals in the state of Rio de Janeiro, a survey was carried out in an area of Atlantic Forest, in the municipality of Nova Iguaçu, known as the Tinguá region. Thirteen species were added to the list of Streblidae in the state of Rio de Janeiro, of which two were new records for Brazil. Thirty-one species have now been reported this state.
Bat flies; ectoparasites; new reports; Phyllostomidae; Tinguá Biological Reserve
Devido aos poucos registros de Streblidae em morcegos, apesar do amplo estudo com esses mamíferos no Estado do Rio de Janeiro, foi realizado um levantamento numa área de Floresta Atlântica, no Município de Nova Iguaçu, conhecida como região do Tinguá. Foram adicionadas à lista de Streblidae do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 13 espécies, sendo dois novos registros para o Brasil, totalizando 31 espécies relatadas para o estado.
Moscas de morcegos; ectoparasitos; novos registros; Phyllostomidae; Reserva Biológica do Tinguá
Introduction
Although the bat fauna of the state of Rio de Janeiro has been widely studied, this is not true for their ectoparasites. Streblidae is one of the better studied bat ectoparasite taxa in Brazil and, until now, only sixteen species had been recorded in this state (MIRANDA-RIBEIRO, 1907; LIMA, 1921; JOBLING, 1939; WENZEL et al., 1966; WENZEL, 1970; ESBÉRARD; BERGALLO, 2004; ESBÉRARD; FARIA, 2006; LOURENÇO; ESBÉRARD, 2011; ALMEIDA et al., 2011).
One of the main remaining areas of Atlantic Forest in the state of Rio de Janeiro is the Tinguá Biological Reserve. Although this reserve harbors several species of bats (DIAS; PERACCHI, 2008), there is no information about bat flies. This paper provides an update on the number of Streblidae in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with reports on bat flies in the Tinguá region.
Methodology
One area in the Tinguá Biological Reserve (22° 34′ 57.4″ S; 043° 26′ 15.9″ W) and two areas surrounding it (22° 35′ 16.53″ S; 043° 24′ 13.86″ W and 22° 36′ 50.69″ S; 043° 24′ 47.17″ W) were sampled for bats. All of these areas are located in the far northeast of the municipality of Nova Iguaçu, state of Rio de Janeiro. The bats were captured using mist nets (12 × 3 m and mesh of 20 mm) between May 2011 and April 2012, over a total of 36 sampling nights. Flies on the bats were removed with the aid of forceps and were stored in microtubes containing 70% ethanol. The samples were collected under license from SISBIO/ICMBio, under number 28064-2. The bats were identified based on Gardner (2007) and Dias and Peracchi (2008). The bat flies were identified with the aid of a stereoscopic microscope, using dichotomous keys and descriptions (WENZEL et al., 1966; WENZEL, 1976; GUERRERO, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998; GRACIOLLI; CARVALHO, 2001; MILLER; TSCHAPKA, 2001). The nomenclature followed Dick and Graciolli (2006) for Streblidae and Gardner (2007) for bats, except for Dermanura which has been elevated to generic status (REDONDO et al., 2008; SOLARI et al., 2009). The vouchers were confirmed by Dr. Gustavo Graciolli and were deposited in the zoological reference collection of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul in the city of Campo Grande, Brazil. Parasite prevalence, mean intensity and mean abundance were determined in accordance with Bush et al. (1997).
Results and Discussion
A total of 22 species of Phyllostomidae bats were caught, which were all parasitized by bat flies except for Chiroderma doriae Thomas, 1891, Chiroderma villosum Peters, 1860, Micronycteris hirsuta (Peters, 1869) and Pygoderma bilabiatum (Wagner, 1843). Of 744 captures, 371 (49.83%) presented 1124 specimens of bat fly, belonging to 24 species of 9 genera (Table 1).
Species of Streblidae on bats captured in the Atlantic Forest, Tinguá region, municipality of Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, between May 2011 and April 2012. NF: number of bat flies; IH: number of infested host individuals; P: prevalence (%); MI: mean intensity of infestation; MA: mean abundance.
The most parasitized host was Carollia perspicillata(Linnaeus, 1758), with seven species of bat flies, and the bat flies found in the greatest numbers of hosts were Aspidoptera phyllostomatis(Perty, 1833) and Paratrichobius longicrus (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1907), in five hosts each. The most abundant species was Trichobius joblingi Wenzel, 1966 (n = 241), which was found to mainly parasitize its primary host, C. perspicillata (97.1%), which was also one of the most commonly caught species (n = 187), thus showing that this fly had high prevalence (51.87%). Thirteen new species were added to the records for the state of Rio de Janeiro, and two of them were new records for Brazil (Table 2). There was also one new species of Strebla (determined by Dr. Graciolli), which was found on Lonchophylla peracchii Dias, Esbérard & Moratelli, 2013. Additional comments have been made for the new occurrences in Brazil and in the state of Rio de Janeiro.
STREBLINAE
Anastrebla caudiferae Wenzel, 1976
Material examined: 1 female; ex Anoura caudifer(É. Geoffroy, 1818)
Comments: Anoura caudifer is its primary host (WENZEL, 1976), although Bertola et al. (2005) have found it in other hosts. Its occurrences in Brazil were previously restricted to the South (KESSEL, 1925; GRACIOLLI; CARVALHO, 2001; GRACIOLLI; RUI, 2001; RUI; GRACIOLLI, 2005) and, in the Southeast, only the states of São Paulo (BERTOLA et al., 2005) and Minas Gerais (MORAS et al., 2013).
Anastrebla modestini Wenzel, 1966
Material examined: 1 female; ex L. peracchii.
Comments: Its primary host is Anoura geoffroyi Gray, 1838 (WENZEL, 1976; GRACIOLLI; CARVALHO, 2001), with records from the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest for this host and A. caudifer(GRACIOLLI; CARVALHO, 2001; GRACIOLLI; COELHO, 2001; GRACIOLLI; RUI, 2001; BERTOLA et al., 2005; GRACIOLLI et al., 2010; MORAS et al., 2013). This is the first occurrence of this bat fly on species of Lonchophylla Thomas, 1903, in Brazil, though it has been registered on Lonchophylla robusta Miller, 1912, in Costa Rica (MILLER; TSCHAPKA, 2001).
Metelasmus pseudopterus Coquillet, 1907
Material examined: 1 male, 2 females; ex Artibeus fimbriatus Gray, 1838; 1 female; ex Artibeus lituratus(Olfers, 1818).
Comments: In Brazil, it seems to be more associated with A. fimbriatus (GRACIOLLI; CARVALHO, 2001; BERTOLA et al., 2005; ANDERSON; ORTÊNCIO FILHO, 2006), like in the present study, although one individual was found on A. lituratus. This relationship was previously reported in Santa Catarina by Wenzel et al. (1966).
Paraeuctenodes similis Wenzel, 1976
Material examined: 19 males, 8 females; ex C. perspicillata.
Comments: In Brazil, this was only previously recorded in the Atlantic Forest of the states of Paraná (GRACIOLLI; CARVALHO, 2001) and São Paulo (BERTOLA et al., 2005), on its primary host.
Strebla diphyllae Wenzel, 1966
Material examined: 2 females; ex Diphylla ecaudata Spix, 1823.
Comments: In Brazil, there were two previous recorded of this species: one to the North (WENZEL, 1976) and another to the South (PREVEDELLO et al., 2005). Wenzel et al. (1966) described this species in Guatemala, having also recorded its occurrence in Mexico. Recently, it was reported in Honduras (DICK, 2013).
Strebla machadoi Wenzel, 1966
Material examined: 3 males, 1 female, 1 undetermined; ex Micronycteris minuta (Gervais, 1856).
Comments: Strebla machadoi was previously registered in the state of Pará on Micronycteris megalotis (Gray, 1842) (GUERRERO, 1997). Another few records were reported in Peru (GUERRERO, 1996), Venezuela (WENZEL, 1976; GUERRERO, 1996) and Panama (WENZEL et al., 1966), all on M. minuta.
TRICHOBIINAE
Aspidoptera falcata Wenzel, 1976
Material examined: 3 females; ex A. fimbriatus; 1 male, 1 female; ex C. perspicillata; 8 males, 5 females; ex Sturnira lilium (É. Geoffroy, 1810).
Comments: This bat fly presents widespread distribution including almost all Brazilian biomes (GRACIOLLI; LINARDI, 2002; DIAS et al., 2009; ERIKSSON et al., 2011). Despite being a common species on the lists of bat flies in the Atlantic Forest (AZEVEDO; LINARDI, 2002; BERTOLA et al., 2005; SOARES et al., 2013), it was not previously reported in the study by Almeida et al. (2011) in the state of Rio de Janeiro, mainly due to not catching S. lilium, which is its primary host (WENZEL, 1976).
Aspidoptera phyllostomatis (Perty, 1833)
Material examined: 12 males, 14 females; ex A. fimbriatus; 4 females; ex A. lituratus; 2 females; ex Artibeus obscurus (Schinz, 1821); 1 male, 7 females; ex Artibeus planirostris (Spix, 1823); 1 male; ex S. lilium.
Comments: This was recorded on four species of ArtibeusLeach, 1821, and the greatest abundance (n = 27) and prevalence (29.31%) were on A. fimbriatus. Data for the Atlantic Forest are scarce (WENZEL, 1970; GRACIOLLI et al., 2006); however, Graciolli and Carvalho (2001) also recorded this species on the same host. Almeida et al. (2011) did not register this bat fly, despite the high numbers of A. lituratus that were caught (n = 106). Likewise, it was not registered by Bertola et al. (2005) on A. lituratus (n = 102) and A. fimbriatus(n = 37). Its presence on S. lilium, reported by Graciolli et al. (2006), was considered to be accidental. In the Cerrado, it was found on A. planirostris (GRACIOLLI et al., 2010; ERIKSSON et al., 2011; SANTOS et al., 2013), and in the Caatinga-Amazon ecotone of the state of Maranhão, on A. lituratus and A. obscurus (DIAS et al., 2009; SANTOS et al., 2009).
Neotrichobius delicatus Machado-Allison, 1966
Material examined: 1 female; ex Dermanura cinerea(Gervais, 1855); 2 females; ex Vampyressa pusilla(Wagner, 1843).
Comments: This bat fly presents previous records only in Pará (WENZEL, 1970) and the Federal District, on D. cinerea(GRACIOLLI; AGUIAR, 2002). Thus, its presence in the Tinguá region expands its geographical distribution and adds one new biome. The association of N. delicatus and V. pusilla is the first time that this has been recorded in Brazil. In Bolivia, it was previously found in association with D. cinereus (DICK et al., 2007), in Costa Rica with V. pusilla(MILLER; TSCHAPKA, 2001) and in Venezuela with both hosts (WENZEL, 1976).
Trichobius anducei Guerrero, 1998
Material examined: 28 males, 21 females; ex C. perspicillata.
Comments: Its occurrence in the state of Rio de Janeiro has increased its distribution in the Neotropics, given that previously, it had only been reported in Venezuela (GUERRERO, 1998). While it is very common for its host to be caught (LOURENÇO; ESBÉRARD, 2011), no records had been reported in addition to its description. In the Tinguá region, T. anducei showed high prevalence (16%) and abundance (n = 49), and was the third most abundant bat fly on C. perspicillata.
Trichobius diphyllae Wenzel, 1966
Material examined: 1 female; ex D. ecaudata.
Comments: This is the first record in Brazil. Previously, occurrences in Guatemala, Mexico, Venezuela and Peru on the same host have been reported (WENZEL et al., 1966; WENZEL, 1970; GUERRERO, 1995).
Trichobius handleyi Wenzel, 1976
Material examined: 3 males; ex M. minuta.
Comments: This is the first record in Brazil. There have previously been records in Costa Rica parasitizing Lophostoma brasiliense Peters, 1867, and Lophostoma silvicolum d'Orbigny, 1836 (MILLER; TSCHAPKA, 2001); in Venezuela on G. soricina, Phyllostomus elongatus (É. Geoffroy, 1810) and M. hirsuta; and in Peru on M. minuta and M. megalotis (WENZEL, 1976; GUERRERO, 1995).
Trichobius lonchophyllae Wenzel, 1966
Material examined: 2 males, 1 female; ex Glossophaga soricina (Pallas, 1766); 3 females; ex L. peracchii.
Comments: There have previously been records on Lonchophylla dekeyseri Taddei, Vizotto & Sazima, 1983, in the Federal District, in the Cerrado (GRACIOLLI; COELHO, 2001; GRACIOLLI; AGUIAR, 2002) and on G. soricina in the state of Minas Gerais, in the Atlantic Forest (AZEVEDO; LINARDI, 2002). Lonchophylla peracchii is a new host of T. lonchophyllae. Other records of this parasite were made in Costa Rica (TIMM et al., 1989; MILLER; TSCHAPKA, 2001), Venezuela (WENZEL, 1976), Colombia (MARINKELLE; GROSE, 1981) and Panama (WENZEL et al., 1966), on L. robusta.
Some streblids, such as Megistopoda Macquart, 1852, and Aspidoptera Coquillett, 1899, were expected to occur in the state of Rio de Janeiro because of their association with hosts already listed for this state and for the Atlantic Forest, such as Artibeus and Sturnira Gray, 1842 (KOMENO; LINHARES, 1999; AZEVEDO; LINARDI, 2002; BERTOLA et al., 2005; GRACIOLLI et al., 2006). Other species cited here have seldom been reported in Brazil, probably due to the low numbers of their hosts that have been caught, such as the bat flies found on M. minuta, L. peracchii, V. pusilla and D. ecaudata. In contrast, the presence of T. anducei on C. perspicillata, which is a new report for Brazil, shows that little is known about the relationships of these bat flies with bats. It is noteworthy that C. perspicillata is one of the most commonly caught bats and also one of the most parasitized (LOURENÇO; ESBÉRARD, 2011). Through this study it was possible expand the geographical distribution of Streblidae, thereby contributing to the state list, which now contains 31 species.
Acknowledgements
To Tinguá Biological Reserve, Entidade Ambientalista Onda Verde, Sindipetro Caxias and FAPERJ (E-26/111.364/2011), CNPq, Capes. To Dr. Gustavo Graciolli for confirmation of vouchers.
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