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LeastFEATURE Water-Snipeflies, ARTICLES Atrichops crassipes . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: (Insecta:On the Road to Understanding Diptera: the Ecology and Conservation ), of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Biting Joshua M. Kapfer 190 an . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: IberianA Hypothetical Painted Excursion ...... Frog (DiscoglossusRobert W. Hendersongalganoi 198 ) RESEARCH ARTICLES . The Texas Horned(Amphibia: Lizard in Central and Western Texas ...... Anura: Emily Henry, JasonAlytidae) Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida ...... Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 César Ayres1 and Miguel Carles-Tolrá2 CONSERVATION ALERT 1AHE-Galicia, Barcelona 86 6C 36211, Vigo (Pontevedra), Spain ([email protected] [corresponding author]) . World’s Mammals2Avenida in Crisis Riera ...... de Cassoles 30, ático 1, E-08012 Barcelona, Spain ([email protected])...... 220 . More Than Mammals ...... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225

HUSBANDRY he Iberian Painted. Captive Frog Care of ( theDiscoglossus Central Netted galganoiDragon ...... ) occupies Chandler, P.J. (ed.). 2010. A Dipterist’sShannon Plummer Handbook. 226 2nd ed. The Amateur Entomologist, Volume 15. The Amateur Entomologists’ Society, Orpington, grasslands and other open areas of the Iberian Peninsula T PROFILE United Kingdom. (Martinez-Solano 2014).. Kraig Adler: These A Lifetime frogs Promoting usually Herpetology occur in ...... swampy Cutajar, T.P. and J.J. Rowley. 2020. Michael Surveying L. Treglia frogs 234 from the bellies of their para- areas with high humidity and close to the water in which they sites: Invertebrate-derived DNA as a novel survey method for frogs. Global breed. During theCOMMENTARY breeding season, females lay eggs in shallow Ecology and Conservation 22: e00978. DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e00978. . The Turtles Have Been Watching Me ...... Ferguson, L.V. and T.G. Smith. 2012. Eric Reciprocal Gangloff trophic238 interactions and trans- water (Ayres 2016). mission of blood parasites between mosquitoes and frogs. 3 (2): 410– At about 1200BOOK h on REVIEW 12 June 2013, we encountered a 423. DOI: 10.3390/insects3020410. male D. galganoi on. Threatened the shore Amphibians of an oldof the clayWorld pit edited in by Orbenlle, S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann,García-París, J.S. M.Chanson, 1985. N.A.Los Anfibios Cox, de España. Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación, Madrid, Spain. O Porriño, Pontevedra,R. Berridge, Spain P. Ramani,(29TNG36; and B.E. Young ETRS89; ...... elev. Robert Powell 243 Gould, J., J.W. Valdez, M.P. Stockwell, S. Clulow, and M.J. Mahony. 2019. 11 m asl). Five dipteran appeared to be biting the head Mosquitoes as a potential vector for the transmission of the amphibian chytrid  CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservationfungus. Zoology Research and ReportsEcology ...... 29: 39–44. DOI: 10.35513/21658005.2019.1.5. 245 and hindlimbs of NATURALthe frog (Fig.HISTORY 1). RESEARCHThe flies wereREPORTS identified: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ...... 247 as female Least Water-Snipeflies, NEWBRIEFS ...... Atrichops crassipes (Meigen Majer, J.M. 1988. Family...... Athericidae, pp. 11–13. In: 248 Á. Soós and L. Papp (eds.),  EDITORIAL INFORMATION ...... Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera...... Volume 5. 251Athericidae-. Elsevier 1820) (Athericidae). The females of these flies specialize in Science Publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.  FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ...... 252 sucking the blood of frogs, which seems necessary for the Martínez-Solano, I. 2014. Sapillo pintojo ibérico - Discoglossus galganoi. In: A. development of eggs (Majer 1988; Rozkošný and Nagatomi Salvador and I. Martínez-Solano (eds.), Enciclopedia Virtual de los Vertebrados Españoles. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain. http:// 1997; Stuckenberg 2000; Chandler 2010). In Europe, these www.vertebradosibericos.org/anfibios/disgal.html. flies have been reported feeding on Pool Frogs ( Front Cover. Shannon Plummer.Pelophylax Back Cover. Michael Kern lessonae [formerly Rana esculenta])Totat (Stuckenberg et velleseque audant 2000) mo and Totat et velleseque audant mo in the Iberian Peninsula on Iberianestibus Waterfrogs inveliquo velique (Pelophylax rerchil estibus inveliquo velique rerchil perezi) and semiaquatic Red-eyed Grasserspienimus, Snakes quos (accullabo.Natrix Ilibusastrep - erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum tophora) (Antúnez 2017), but we havefugiatis not maionsequat found anyeumque previous fugiatis maionsequat eumque records of parasitism by A. crassipesmoditia on D. erere galganoi nonsedis ma. The sectiatur only moditia erere nonsedis ma sectia- ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as ectoparasites that have been reportedaccullabo. feeding on D. galganoi were leeches in the genus Batracobdella (García-Paris 1985). Dipterans could act as vectors for the transmission of pathogens like the amphibian chytrid fungus (Gould et al. 2019) or blood parasites (Ferguson and Smith 2012; Snyman 2020) but they also could help identify elusive species of frogs (Cutajar and Rowley 2020).

Literature Cited Antúnez, J. 2017. Records. Atrichops crsssipes (Meigen, 1820). Biodiversidade. Fig. 1. An Iberian Painted Frog (Discoglossus galganoi) from Orbenlle, O https://biodiversidade.eu/avistamento/atrichops-crassipes-meigen-1820-/. Porriño, Pontevedra, Spain, being bitten on the head and hindlimbs by Ayres, C. 2016. Discoglossus galganoi tadpoles: egg and carcass cannibalism. Boletín female Least Water-Snipeflies (Atrichops crassipes). Photograph by César de la Asociación Herpetológica Española 27(2): 26–27. Ayres.

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Rozkošný, R. and A, Nagatomi. 1997. Family Athericidae, pp. 439–446. In: L. Afrotropical region using herpetofauna as hosts: conservation and epidemio- Papp and B. Darvas (eds.), Contributions to a Manual of Palaearctic Diptera logical consequences of knowing little about many species. Austral Entomology (with special reference to flies of economic importance). Volume 2. 60: 163–171. and Lower . Science Herald, Budapest, Hungary. Stuckenberg, B.R. 2000. A new genus and species of Athericidae (Diptera: Tabanoidea) Snyman, L.P. 2020. Review of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) from the from Cape York Peninsula. Records of the Australian Museum 52: 151–159.

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