Ornithoctona plicata von Olfers, 1816

Nartshuk, E. P., Matyukhin, A. V. & Redkin, Ya. A., 2018, Association of the louse-flies of the genus Ornothoctona Speiser, 1902 (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) with birds and first record of O. australasiae (Fabricius, 1805) from the Russian Far East, Far Eastern Entomologist 355, pp. 23-28 : 26

Ornithoctona plicata von Olfers, 1816

DISTRIBUTION. Russia (Kuril Islands), Mongolia, East China, Korea, Japan, India, Sri-

Lanka, Thailand, Philippines, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, New Guinea, Australia, Madagascar, Fiji,

Samoan and Tonga Islands.

FAMILIES OF THE HOST BIRDS. Accipitridae , Alcedinidae , Ardeidae , Artamidae ,

Bucerotidae , Campephagidae , Charadriidae , Columbidae , Corvidae , Cuculidae , Falconidae ,

Hirundinidae , Megapodiidae , Muscicapidae , Oriolidae , Phasianiidae, Picidae , Psittacidae ,

Pycnotidae, Sittidae , Strigidae , Sturnidae , Trogonidae . Chiefly on Accipitridae , Columbidae ,

Psittacidae .

NOTES. This species was recorded from Russia (Primorsky kray, Iturup Island), Mongolia,

East China, Korea, and Japan (Honshu, Kyoto, ex hawk and Matsumoto, Nagano-ken ex

Ninox japonica japonica ) (Maa, 1967, 1969). Bird species of 52 genera are known as host of this species. In Primorsky kray one female was taken from Cuculus optatus 31.V 1965 in vicinity of Peishula, Shkotovsky rayon (Nazarov, 1968) .