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ASCODIPTERON is one of the most remarkable examples of specialisation to a parasitic existence known among insects. It was described by Adensamer in 1896 from a single example found imbedded in the dorsal wing-membrane of a bat (Phyllorhina sp.) from the Dutch East Indies. Subsequently Mr. Frederick Muir found a number of examples of another species, imbedded in the skin at the base of the ear, on seventeen specimens of Miniopterus schreibersi taken at Amboina; from these he obtained puparia and bred both sexes of the fly, publishing an account of the life-history (1912) and referring the insect to the family Streblidæ.
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SCOTT, H. Discovery of Ascodipteron in Ceylon. Nature 112, 206 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112206b0
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