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Hi,

like i have say in a previous post, last week i have been involved in some bat study.
after a visit in one cave found this on me (see attached photo). from what i know is from Nycteribiidae family. some details: the host was probably (before me ) Miniopterus schreibersii. in that cave was a very big colony of them (~4000 exemplary) but this is just a presumtion (the total number estimated was somewhere at 7000 exemplary).

maybe an identification can be possible?

thanks in advance,
cosmln

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Ouch, that's a nice one.

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Terrific !
Miniopterus is great for Nycteribiidae.
Identification only possibly with specimen 'in hand'.
So did you collect some ?


Theo

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hi Theo and Paul,

thanks for appreciation and yes the exemplary was collected, i'm waiting for identification but i was hopping to receive that faster.



after i receive the identification if you want i will send the photo to gallery.
also in the future if you want some of my photo to be here in the gallery jut let me know.

cosmln

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You can submit any picture you think should be in the gallery. A quick peek will learn if a species is present or not and if your images are better tahn existing ones. yes,... I do ditch the occasional image for a better one. Does not happen often, though.

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I don?t know who will win the prize of the most ugly family fly... Hippoboscidae or Nycteribiidae...

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i think Nycteribiidae but the members of this family can see that, they don't have eyes

cosmln

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Well, first impression is that of Penicillidia.
This one is big, that is, for the Nycteribiidae.

And several Nycteribiidae (like Basilia) do have 'eyes' , that is, facets.


Theo

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hmmm, new info

thanks Theo