The family of bloodsucking flies Hippoboscidae Samouelle, 1819 has about 213 species. All its representatives are widespread blood-sucking ectoparasites of mammals and birds. Both sexes feed on the blood of their owners. Courtship and mating take place on the host.
Representatives of the genus Ornithomya Latreille, 1802 are full-winged parasites of 47 families of birds. Representatives of Ornithomia live mainly in the middle latitudes of the Old World. Before this work, 30 species of the genus Ornithomya were known.
A new species, O. triselevae, was described from Iturup Island (Kuril Islands, Russia). According to the literature, 5 species of Ornithomya are found in the Russian Far East, and 4 on the northern Japanese islands. The new species differs from other Ornithomya species in the setae on the abdomen.O. triselevae was collected from Ocyris spodocephalus personatus, the most abundant passerine bird of the Kuril Islands, which occurs in many habitats and winters in China.
The new species is named in honor of Tatyana Alekseevna Triseleva, senior researcher at the Laboratory of Soil Zoology and General Entomology of the IEE RAS.
A. V. Matyukhin, A. A. Yatsuk, Ya. A. Red’kin, P. A. Smirnov and E. P. NartshukA New Species of the Genus Ornithomya Latreille (Diptera, Hippoboscidae) from Iturup (Kuril Islands)Entomological Review, 2023, Vol. 103, No. 4, pp. 450–454. DOI: 10.1134/S0013873823040061