| Basilia fletcheri | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Nycteribiidae |
| Subfamily: | Nycteribiinae |
| Genus: | Basilia |
| Species: | B. fletcheri |
| Binomial name | |
| Basilia fletcheri (Scott, 1914) | |
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Basilia fletcheri is parasitic bat fly in the family Hippoboscidae or alternatively, family Nycteribiidae. It is found in India.
Hugh Scott described this species in 1914. He named it after its collector, Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher. Two specimens, a male and a female, were discovered on a Dormer's bat in Tamil Nadu, India. Scott placed this species in the genus Penicillidia Kolenati, 1863. In 1956, Oskar Theodor classified it as belonging to the Basilia Miranda-Ribeiro, 1903 genus, which is in the same subfamily as Penicillidia.
It was discovered in Chennai. Scott later reported that Joseph Charles Bequaert sent him a specimen from Bengaluru, which Scott identified as this species, but Theodor later wrote this specimen was in fact B. punctuata; other places specimens have been collected include Navapur and Mumbai.
Hosts which specimens have been collected from include Dormer's bats (Scotozous dormeri) and lesser bamboo bats (Tylonycteris pachypus).
It is about 2.5 mm long and has a yellowish color.
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