<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Federico Romiti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sarah Droghei</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Arianna Ermenegildi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Adele Magliano</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jesús M. Pérez</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ricardo L. Palma</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Claudio de Liberato</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">First report of phoresy on snipe flies (Diptera: Rhagionidae): the chewing louse &lt;i&gt;Damalinia meyeri&lt;/i&gt; (Psocodea: Phthiraptera: Trichodectidae) on &lt;i&gt;Symphoromyia immaculata&lt;/i&gt;</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal of Insect Science</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">dispersal</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ectoparasites</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">roe deer</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">snipe fly</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Symphoromyia immaculata</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2026</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jan-01-2026</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://academic.oup.com/jinsectscience/article/26/1/ieaf111/8425085</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">26</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4 pp</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;&lt;jats p=&quot;&quot;&gt;Phoresy, the passive transport of an organism by another, is a well-documented strategy among flightless arthropods, particularly in species that exploit patchily distributed resources. While phoresy among parasitic lice has been frequently recorded between avian-associated ischnoceran species riding on louse flies, reports of phoretic lice parasitic on mammals are exceedingly rare. Here, we report a case of phoresy of the chewing louse Damalinia (Cervicola) meyeri (Taschenberg) hitchhiking attached to the legs of the snipe fly Symphoromyia immaculata (Diptera: Ragionidae) (Meigen), collected while feeding on a human in central Italy. This represents the first case of phoresy on a rhagionid fly, increasing the known diversity of phoretic carriers of chewing lice.&lt;/jats&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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