2026/05/04 by Jozef Oboňa, Arockianathan Samson, Kesavan Rishi +6 · 1 voice
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Immunology and Microbiology · #Bird parasitology and diseases #Diptera species taxonomy and behavior #Forensic Entomology and Diptera Studies
paper · doi:10.48027/hnb.48.052
openalex publication_date 2026/05/04 · openalex created_date 2026/05/05 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
Myophthiria is a highly specialised genus of brachypterous hippoboscid flies parasitising swifts and swiftlets (Apodidae). Myophthiria zeylanica Maa, 1980 has been considered endemic to Sri Lanka. Here we report the first record of M. zeylanica from India, based on a single female collected from an Indian swiftlet (Aerodramus unicolor (Jerdon, 1840)) found dead during a field visit in the Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu, at 2238 m a.s.l. The specimen was identified based on external morphology following Maa (1980). This record provides new distributional data for this rarely collected swiftlet-associated louse-fly.