Dataset Details - Hippoboscidae and Nycteribidae (Diptera) of Ireland
Records of Irish Hippoboscidae (flat flies or louse flies) collected from birds 2020-2025, including that of Ireland's first Ornithomya biloba, with details of the host, and National Museum of Ireland accession numbers where appropriate. A single Nyteribidae specimen (bat fly) is also included. The spreadsheet contains the additional fields Host Species (associatedTaxa)(the bird or bat species from which the flies were collected, Museum Accession Number (collectionID) (the museum accession and or Genebank accession numbers of the specimens) and Specimen number (as unique alphanumberic code for each fly which should allow it to be traced across all publications, etc.).
08/09/2026
08/09/2026
To examine the geographical and host distribution of Hippoboscidae in Ireland
Hippoboscids that left birds were collected by bird ringers during their usual ringing activities, and preserved in ethanol. The specimens were sent to Denise C . Wawman (Edward Grey Institute, University of Oxford) for identification.
Ireland, mainly County Cork, but with other data from County Waterford, Galway, Wexford and Kerry.
2020 - 2025
All grid references have been checked on the map. With the exception of one fly identified from photographs, all flies were identified from voucher specimens.
Complete and published
The dataset is complete. The full dataset has not been published as a dataset but parts of it are published in: Wawman DC. 2025. Louse Flies (Diptera: Hippoboscidae): United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and Isle of Man: Citizen Science data: Part 1, Mapping. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.zs7h44jkh
Wawman DC. 2025. Louse flies (Diptera: Hippoboscidae): United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, and Isle of Man: Citizen science data: Part 2, host associations. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.4b8gthtrj Some of the flies are included in the following publications: Wawman DC, Smith AL, Sheldon BC. 2026. Citizen science reveals host-switching in louse flies and keds (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) during a period of anthropogenic change. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 40(2):1-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/mve.70029
Wawman DC, Bailey AS, Fiddaman S, Jones BJ, Johnson N, Smith AL. 2025. Clarifying the taxonomy of the Finch Louse Fly Ornithomya fringillina (Curtis) (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) – an analysis of morphotypes. Acta Parasitologica, 70(4): 175. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11686-025-01113-z
Wawman, DC. 2025. Citizen scientists mapping the United Kingdom’s and Republic of Ireland’s flat flies (louse flies) (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) reveal a vector’s range shift. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 39(3): 559-575. https://doi.org/10.1111/mve.12795 And the record of the first Ornithomya biloba is about to be publihed as Wawman DC, Bayley S. The first record of the Swallow Louse Fly Ornithomya biloba (Dufour, 1827) (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) in Ireland. in the Irish Naturalists’ Journal.
Open (Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0)
Denise C. Wawman, Hippoboscidae and Nycteribidae (Diptera) of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, accessed 09 September 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/451
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Dataset species distribution
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Distribution of the number of species recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).Marine Map - 50Km
Marine Map - 50Km
Distribution of the number of species recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).Dataset record distribution
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Distribution of the number of records within each 10km grid square (ITM).Marine Map - 50Km
Marine Map - 50Km
Distribution of the number of records within each 50km grid square (WGS84).Dataset Contacts
DeniseCWawman
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Records per year
Species per year
Date Statistics
| Resolution | No. records |
|---|---|
| Day | 144 |
| Month | 1 |
2020
2025
Record Statistics
145
18
7
1
| Resolution | No. records |
|---|---|
| 100m | 4 |
| 1km | 138 |
| 2km | 0 |
| 10km | 3 |
| 50km | 0 |
Surveys
| SurveyId | Title | Data Capture Period | Species | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Dataset Attributes
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Additional information | Additional information associated with the record. |
| associatedTaxa | A list (concatenated and separated) of identifiers or names of dwc:Taxon records and the associations of this dwc:Occurrence to each of them |
| collectionID | An identifier for a collection |
| Determiner name | The name of the person(s) who verified the identification - used for verify records of difficult taxa |
| Life stage | A description of the life stage of the organism recorded. |
| Sex | The sex of the organism if known |
| SpecimenNumber | unique alphanumberic code for each fly which should allow it to be traced across all publications |
Recorded Species
| TaxonId | PrefnameTaxonId | Name | Authority | Group | Rank | Records |
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