Matyukhin A.V.1, Nartshuk E.P.2, Markovets M.Yu.2, Yatsuk A.A.1 2025. A new species of the genus Ornithophila Rondani, 1879 (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) from South Africa // Euroasian Entomological Journal. Vol.24. No.4: 197–200 [in English].
1 A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Leninskii prospekt 33, Moscow 119071 Russia. E-mail: sasha_djedi@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0913-7823; amatyukhin53@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4787-7681
2 Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya 1, Saint Petersburg 199034 Russia. E-mail: chlorops@zin.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8300-4928; mikhail.markovets@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6023-7868
doi 10.15298/euroasentj.24.04.04
ABSTRACT. Hippoboscidae Samouelle, 1819, the family of parasitic flies, currently includes more than 213 species. These flies are spreading all over the world and carry many dangerous diseases. The genus Ornithophila Rondani, 1879 currently includes three species, namely: O. gestroi (Rondani, 1878), O. metallica (Schiner, 1864) and O. baikalica Yatsuk, Matyukhin et Nartshuk, 2024. Representatives of this genus inhabit the tropics and subtropics of Asia and Africa, Europe, Central Asia, Russia and Kazakhstan. During the bird ringing, a new species of the genus Ornithophila Rondani (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) was collected in the White Elephant Safaris, Pongola Game Reserve (South), KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa on crested barbet Trachyphonus vaillantii Ranzani, 1821, bird, that inhabits the sub-Saharan region. Ornithophila kohrsi Yatsuk, Matyukhin et Nartshuk sp.n. differs from the congeners in a row of longer setae, widening towards abdomen edges at the level of tergite 5.
KEY WORDS: Parasite, louse fly, new species, South Africa.