Basilia italica Theodor, 1954

Péter, Áron, Mihalca, Andrei Daniel & Sándor, Attila D., 2022, Annotated checklist of the bat flies (Diptera: Nycteribiidae) of Romania, Zootaxa 5120 (1), pp. 111-127 : 115

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5120.1.7
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0336B096-F90C-4AF3-BF32-4CA854E88F05
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6394000
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B09745-FF8A-FFF2-FF30-FDF401ECD4C7
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Basilia italica Theodor, 1954
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Published records. Ic Ponor, 1 female, 1 male, host Myotis mystacinus (Kuhl) ( Péter et al. 2021) .

Material examined. Aghireșu, 02.09.2020, 1 female; Peștera Mare de la Merești, 02.09.2020, 1 male; host in both cases Barbastella barbastellus (Schreber) .

Distribution. Southern and Central Europe. Rare in Romania, collected only at three distinct sites.

Remarks. A rare fly species, mostly recorded on forest-dwelling, small-sized bat species. Its primary hosts are Myotis brandtii (Eversmann) and My. mystacinus , with several records also from Myotis alcathoe von Helversen & Heller and six other species ( Szentiványi et al. 2016).