Records of Irish Hippoboscidae (flat flies or louse flies) collected from birds 2020-2025, including that of Ireland's first Ornithomya biloba, with details of the host, and National Museum of Ireland accession numbers where appropriate. A single Nycteribiidae specimen (bat fly) is also included. The spreadsheet contains the additional fields Host Species (associatedTaxa)(the bird or bat species from which the flies were collected, Museum Accession Number (collectionID) (the museum accession and or Genebank accession numbers of the specimens) and Specimen number (as unique alphanumberic code for each fly which should allow it to be traced across all publications, etc.).
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","additionalInfo":"The dataset is complete. The full dataset has not been published as a dataset but parts of it are published in: Wawman DC. 2025. Louse Flies (Diptera: Hippoboscidae): United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and Isle of Man: Citizen Science data: Part 1, Mapping. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.zs7h44jkh\nWawman DC. 2025. Louse flies (Diptera: Hippoboscidae): United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, and Isle of Man: Citizen science data: Part 2, host associations. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.4b8gthtrj Some of the flies are included in the following publications: Wawman DC, Smith AL, Sheldon BC. 2026. Citizen science reveals host-switching in louse flies and keds (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) during a period of anthropogenic change. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 40(2):1-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/mve.70029 \nWawman DC, Bailey AS, Fiddaman S, Jones BJ, Johnson N, Smith AL. 2025. Clarifying the taxonomy of the Finch Louse Fly Ornithomya fringillina (Curtis) (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) – an analysis of morphotypes. Acta Parasitologica, 70(4): 175. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11686-025-01113-z \nWawman, DC. 2025. Citizen scientists mapping the United Kingdom’s and Republic of Ireland’s flat flies (louse flies) (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) reveal a vector’s range shift. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 39(3): 559-575. https://doi.org/10.1111/mve.12795 And the record of the first Ornithomya biloba is about to be publihed as Wawman DC, Bayley S. The first record of the Swallow Louse Fly Ornithomya biloba (Dufour, 1827) (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) in Ireland. in the Irish Naturalists’ Journal.","license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","dwca":{"coreType":"http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/Occurrence","extensions":[],"modified":"2026-10-12T01:10:43.266+00:00"},"approximateCounts":{"occurrenceCount":145}}