Ectoparasitic Flies on Bats in a Cerrado Peri-Urban Area, 2011

Jaire Marinho Torres collected data on Streblidae ectoparasitic flies and their bat hosts in a peri-urban Cerrado area between February and July 2011. The dataset includes 161 captured bats from seven species, with 48 infested individuals and 83 collected flies from six Streblidae species. It characterizes the parasite-host community using indices like prevalence, average infestation intensity, and specificity.

Use Cases

• Modeling host-parasite association patterns based on prevalence and specificity indices mentioned in the description.
• Analyzing infestation intensity for different bat species, such as Carollia perspicillata and Artibeus planirostris.
• Studying the ecological specificity of monoxenic and oligoxenic Streblidae fly species reported in the data.

Strengths

• Includes specific counts: 161 bats captured, 48 infested individuals (29.81%), and 83 flies collected.
• Reports ecological indices: prevalence, average infestation intensity, and specificity for host-parasite relationships.
• Identifies host and parasite species, including seven bat species and six Streblidae fly species.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Jaire Marinho Torres via paperswithcode

Collection Method

Bats were captured with a sample effort of 9,504 h.m²; ectoparasites were collected and identified.

Time Range

February to July 2011

Geography

A peri-urban area of the Cerrado biome, Brazil