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Parasitic Louse Flies (Diptera, Hippoboscidae) and Their Associations with Bird Hosts in the South of the Russian Far East

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In 2017–2020, six species of louse flies of the subfamily Ornithomyinae and two species of the subfamily Lipopteninae were collected in two localities in the Lazovsky State Nature Reserve, Primorskii Territory, Russia. They were taken from 646 birds representing 62 species out of the 3833 birds of the 103 species examined. All the birds were ringed and released into the wild. Ornithoctona momiyamai (Kishida, 1932) and Ornithomya avicularia (Llinnaeus, 1758) were the most abundant louse fry species. Ornithomya fringillina (Curtis, 1856), O. comosa (Austen, 1930), Ornithoctona unicolor Speiser, 1900 and Crataerina hirundinis (Curtis, 1856) were less numerous. A few specimens of mammophilous louse flies Lipoptena cervi (Linnaeus, 1758) and L. fortisetosa (Maa, 1965) were found on birds. A comparative analysis of the louse fly faunas of the Lazovsky State Nature Reserve, Muraviovskii Park (Amurskaya Province, Russia), Hokkaido (Japan) and South Korea was carried out.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors thank D.Ju. Eremin (the Lazovsky State Nature Reserve) for help in collecting material.

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The study of the first author was performed as a part of the state research project of the Zoological Institute RAS no. 122031100272-3.

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  1. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia

    E. P. Nartshuk

  2. A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, 19071, Moscow, Russia

    A. V. Matyukhin

  3. Unaided Administration of the L.G. Kaplanov Lazovsky State Nature Reserve and National Park “Zov of the Tiger”, Lazo Vill., 692980, Primorskii Territory, Russia

    V. P. Shokhrin

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Nartshuk, E.P., Matyukhin, A.V. & Shokhrin, V.P. Parasitic Louse Flies (Diptera, Hippoboscidae) and Their Associations with Bird Hosts in the South of the Russian Far East. Entmol. Rev. 102, 367–376 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873822030083

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