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New Host and Location Record for the Bat Bug Cimex Adjunctus Barber 1939, with a Summary of Previous Records M Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science Volume 68 Article 26 2014 New Host and Location Record for the Bat Bug Cimex adjunctus Barber 1939, with a Summary of Previous Records M. E. Grilliot Troy University-Montgomery J. L. Hunt Troy University-Montgomery, [email protected] C. G. Sims University of Arkansas at Monticello C. E. Comer Stephen F. Austin State University Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.uark.edu/jaas Part of the Entomology Commons, and the Zoology Commons Recommended Citation Grilliot, M. E.; Hunt, J. L.; Sims, C. G.; and Comer, C. E. (2014) "New Host and Location Record for the Bat Bug Cimex adjunctus Barber 1939, with a Summary of Previous Records," Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science: Vol. 68 , Article 26. Available at: http://scholarworks.uark.edu/jaas/vol68/iss1/26 This article is available for use under the Creative Commons license: Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0). Users are able to read, download, copy, print, distribute, search, link to the full texts of these articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This General Note is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UARK. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks@UARK. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science, Vol. 68 [2014], Art. 26 New Host and Location Record for the Bat Bug Cimex adjunctus Barber 1939, with a Summary of Previous Records M.E. Grilliot1, J.L. Hunt1*, C.G. Sims2, and C.E. Comer3 1Troy University-Montgomery, Department of Arts and Sciences, 126 Church Street, Montgomery, AL 36104 2University of Arkansas at Monticello, School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, 397 University Drive, Monticello, AR 71656 3Stephen F. Austin State University, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, P.O. Box 6109, SFA Station, Nacogdoches, TX 75962 *Correspondence: [email protected] Running Title: New Host and Location Record for the Bat Bug Cimex adjunctus Barber 1939 Abstract University. This is the first record of C. adjunctus from Rafinesque’s big-eared bat. In June 2009, 14 Rafinesque’s big-eared bats A maternity colony of over 100 individuals of C. (Corynorhinus rafinesquii) were collected from an rafinesquii roosts in the Taylor House, an abandoned abandoned house near Shepherd, San Jacinto County, antebellum building located at the edge of an Texas. Three individuals harbored bat bugs which agricultural field adjacent to Bayou Bartholomew in were subsequently identified as Cimex adjunctus Drew County, Arkansas. On August 2, 2013, 10 Barber 1939. This is the first record of this species individuals were captured with a hand net. All of the from C. rafinesquii. In August 2013, 10 C. rafinesquii captured bats were females; 3 were lactating. Four of were collected from a maternity colony in Drew the bats harbored bat bugs, which were collected and County in southeastern Arkansas. Four of the bats preserved in 95% ethanol. All bats were released harbored bat bugs, which were identified as C. unharmed at the point of capture. The preserved bat adjunctus. This is the first record of this bat bug from bugs were sent to the Department of Entomology and Arkansas. A summary of previous state and host Plant Pathology at Auburn University, Alabama, where records of the insect is provided, as is a summary of they were identified as Cimex adjunctus. Specimens parasite records from C. rafinesquii. were deposited in the insect collection of the Museum of Natural History at Auburn. This represents the first Results and Discussion record of C. adjunctus from Arkansas. Cimex adjunctus is found over most of the eastern Rafinesque’s big eared bat (Corynorhinus United States and southeastern Canada and has been rafinesquii) roosts in abandoned buildings, caves, recorded as far west as Colorado (Usinger 1966). It hollow trees, and under bridges across the southeastern has previously been reported from Eptesicus fuscus in United States (Jones 1977, Trousdale and Beckett Illinois, Indiana (Webster and Whitaker 2005), 2004). This bat commonly forms colonies ranging in Missouri (Bowles et al. 2013), Kansas (Sparks et al. number from a few individuals to 100 or more. 2003), Michigan (Dood and Kurta 1982), Alabama On 28 June 2009, 14 C. rafinesquii were hand- (Durden et al. 1992), Kentucky, Colorado, Georgia, collected from an abandoned house near Shepherd, San and Florida (Usinger 1966), from Lasionycteris Jacinto County, Texas. A maternity colony of C. noctivagans in Nebraska (Usinger 1966) and South rafinesquii numbering >50 individuals occupied this Dakota (Swier 2003), and from Nycticeus humeralis in roost each year from 2005-2009 and in 2012 (surveys Kansas (Sparks et al. 2003), Missouri (Bowles et al. were not conducted in other years). Three Cimex 2013), Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, South adjunctus Barber 1939 were found on the torso and Carolina, West Virginia, Alabama, Florida, and Texas uropatagium of 3 lactating adult female bats. No (Usinger 1966). This bat bug is known from Myotis external parasites were noted on 8 additional adult californicus in Colorado (Usinger 1966), from Myotis females or 3 juvenile males also captured at the same lucifigus in Missouri (Palmer and Gunier 1975), location and time. Bat bugs were preserved in ethanol Michigan (Dood and Kurta 1988), Pennsylvania (Dick and deposited in the Gibson Entomarium in the et al. 2003), Tennessee (Reeves et al. 2007), West Biology Department at Stephen F. Austin State Virginia (Wilson 1943), Colorado, Indiana, Virginia, Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science, Vol. 68, 2014 149 Published by Arkansas Academy of Science, 2014 149 Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science, Vol. 68 [2014], Art. 26 M.E. Grilliot, J.L. Hunt, C.G. Sims, and C.E. Comer Vermont (Usinger 1966), and Nova Scotia (Poissant et Bowles DE, RG Robbins, HJ Harlan and al. 2010), from Myotis septentrionalis in Indiana (Ritzi TL Carpenter. 2013. New Missouri county and Whitaker 2003), New Hampshire (Sasse and records and review of the distribution and disease Pekins 2000), and Nova Scotia (Poissant and Broders vector potential of Ornithodoros kellyi (Arachnida: 2008), from Myotis sodalis in Indiana (Usinger 1966) Ixodida: Argasidae) and Cimex adjunctus (Insecta: and Michigan (Dood and Kurta 1982), from Myotis Hemiptera: Cimicidae). Proceedings of the thysanodes in South Dakota (Turner and Knox Jones Entomological Society of Washington 115:117- 1968), and from roosts of Myotis austroriparius in 127. South Carolina (Reeves 2001). Cimex adjunctus was Dick CW, MR Gannon, WE Little and MJ Patrick. collected from Tadarida brasiliensis and its roosts in 2003. Ectoparasite associations of bats from Georgia (Spears et al. 1999). It has also been recorded central Pennsylvania. Journal of Medical from unknown hosts in Ohio, Iowa, Maine, Rhode Entomology 40:813-819. Island, Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, New Dood SB and A Kurta. 1982. New records for Hampshire, New York (Barber 1939, Usinger 1966), ectoparasites of Michigan bats. The Great Lakes Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and Newfoundland (Maw Entomologist 15:217-218. et al. 2000), and from Pennsylvania, where the type Dood SB and A Kurta. 1988. Additional records of specimens were collected (Barber 1939). Michigan bat ectoparasites. The Great Lakes Although C. rafinesquii is widespread, there are Entomologist 21:115-116. relatively few studies of its behavior and ecology, and Durden LA, TL Best, N Wilson and CD Hilton. few parasites have been recorded. The bat bug Cimex 1992. Ectoparasitic mites (Acari) of sympatric pilosellus has been reported from C. rafinesquii in Brazilian free-tailed bats and big brown bats in Arkansas (Steward et al. 1986). Mites recorded from Alabama. Journal of Medical Entomology 29:507- Rafinesque’s big-eared bats include Chiroptoglyphus, 511. Macronyssus, and Teinocoptes (Whitaker et al. 2007). Jones C. 1977. Plecotus rafinesquii. Mammalian Reported endoparasites include tapeworms Species 69:1-4. (Vampirolepis sp.) and two species of nematodes Maw HEL, RG Foottit, KGA Hamilton and (Physaloptera sp. and Capillaria palmata—McAllister GGE Scudder. 2000. Checklist of the Hemiptera et al. 2005). of Canada and Alaska. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 220 pp. McAllister CT, CR Bursey and AD Burns. 2005. Acknowledgments Gastroinestinal helminthes of Rafinesque’s big- eared bat, Corynorhinus rafinesquii (Chiroptera: We thank Charles Ray of Auburn University for Vespertilionidae), from southwestern Arkansas, identification of bat bugs. Jack Lassiter and Morris U.S.A. Comparative Parasitology 72:121-123. Bramlett of the University of Arkansas at Monticello Palmer DB and WJ Gunier. 1975. A preliminary provided logistical support and permission to access survey of arthropods associated with bats and bat the Taylor House. This project is funded in part by a caves in Missouri and two counties of Oklahoma. Faculty Research Grant from the University of Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society Arkansas at Monticello, and a Faculty Development 48:524-531. Grant from Troy University-Montgomery. Poissant JA and HG Broders. 2008. Ectoparasite prevalence in Myotis lucifugus and M. septentrionalis (Chiroptera: Vesptertilionidae) Literature Cited during fall migration at Hayes Cave, Nova Scotia. Northeastern Naturalist 15:515-522. Barber HG. 1939. A new bat bug from the eastern Poissant JA, HG Broders and GM Quinn. 2010. United States. Proceedings of the Entomological Use of lichen as a roosting substrate by Perimyotis Society of Washington 41:243-246. subflavus, the tricolored bat, in Nova Scotia. Ecoscience 17:372-378. Reeves WK. 2001. Invertebrate and slime mold cavernicoles of Santee Cave, South Carolina, U.S.A. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 151:81-85. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science, Vol. 68, 2014 150 http://scholarworks.uark.edu/jaas/vol68/iss1/26 150 Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science, Vol.
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