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New data are given on distribution and bird host associations of two species of the louse fly genus Ornithophila Rondani, 1878 in Eastern Europe and North Asia. Ornithophila metallica (Schiner, 1864) is recorded for the first time for Tajikistan and China. It is confirmed that this species mostly parasitizes adults and nestlings of small passerines. Ornithophila gestroi (Rondani, 1878) is recorded for the first time for Armenia (Yerevan) and Mongolia, and the lesser kestrel Falco naumanni is recorded for the first time as its host.
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We are grateful to A.V. Zabashta (Rostov-on-Don Anti-plague Research Institute of Rospotrebnadzor) for data on O. metallica in Rostov Province and to A.L. Ozerov (Zoological Museum of Moscow State University) for the granted possibility to study the collection material.
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This work was performed within the framework of the state research project AAAAA19-119020690082-8 and the Russian Academy of Sciences program No. 41 “Biodiversity of natural systems and biological resources of Russia.”
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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2019, published in Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2019, Vol. 98, No. 6, pp. 630–633.
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Nartshuk, E.P., Matyukhin, A.V. The Louse Flies Ornithophila metallica (Schiner, 1864) and O. gestroi (Rondani, 1878) (Diptera, Hippoboscidae): Distribution and Association with Birds in the Palaearctic. Entmol. Rev. 99, 504–507 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873819040092
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