Publications

Graciolli, G., C. W. Dick, and D. Gettinger. 2006. A faunal survey of nycteribiid flies (Diptera: Nycteribiidae) associated with bats in Paraguay. Zootaxa 1220: 35-46.

Dick, C. W. and B. D. Patterson. 2006. Bat flies: Obligate ectoparasites of bats. Pages 179-194 In: S. Morand, B. Krasnov, and R. Poulin (Editors). Micromammals and Macroparasites: from Evolutionary Ecology to Management. Springer-Verlag Publishing. 647p.

Dick, C. W. and R. L. Wenzel. 2006. A new genus and species of trichobiine bat flies (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea: Streblidae) from Costa Rica. Insect Systematics and Evolution 37: 433-442.

Dick, C. W. 2007. High host specificity of obligate ectoparasites. Ecological Entomology 32: 446-450.

Patterson, B. D., C. W. Dick, and K. Dittmar. 2007. Roosting habits of bats affect their parasitism by bat flies (Diptera: Streblidae). Journal of Tropical Ecology 23: 177-189.

Dick, C. W., and B. D. Patterson. 2007. Against all odds: explaining high host specificity in dispersal-prone parasites. International Journal for Parasitology 37: 871-876.

Dick, C. W., D. Gettinger, and S. L. Gardner. 2007. Bolivian Ectoparasites: A survey of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Comparative Parasitology 74: 372-377.

Tello, J. S., R. D. Stevens, and C. W. Dick. 2008. Patterns of species co-occurrence and density compensation: a test for interspecific competition in bat ectoparasite infracommunities. Oikos 117: 693-702.

Patterson, B. D. and C. W. Dick, and K. Dittmar. 2008. Parasitism by bat flies (Diptera: Streblidae) on Neotropical bats: effects of host body size, distribution and abundance. Parasitology Research 103: 1091-1100.

Dick, C. W., and B. D. Patterson. 2008. An excess of males: skewed sex ratios in bat flies (Diptera: Streblidae). Evolutionary Ecology 22: 757-769.

Patterson, B. D. and C. W. Dick, and K. Dittmar. 2008. Sex biases in parasitism of neotropical bats by bat flies (Diptera: Streblidae). Journal of Tropical Ecology 24: 387-396.

Graciolli, G., and C. W. Dick. 2009. A new species of Basilia Miranda-Ribeiro (Diptera: Nycteribiidae) from Honduras, parasite of Bauerus dubiaquercus (Van Gelder) (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae: Antrozoinae). Zootaxa 1972: 59-64.

Patterson, B. D., C. W. Dick, and K. Dittmar. 2009. Nested distributions of bat flies (Diptera: Streblidae) on Neotropical bats: artifact and specificity in host-parasite studies. Ecography 32: 481-487.

Dittmar, K., C. W. Dick, B. D. Patterson, M. F. Whiting, and M. Gruwell. 2009. Pupal deposition and ecology of bat flies (Diptera: Streblidae): Trichobius sp. (caecus group) in a Mexican cave habitat. Journal of Parasitology 95: 308-314.

Hastriter, M. W. and C. W. Dick. 2009. A description of Paractenopsyllus madagascarensis sp. n. and the female of Paractenopsyllus raxworthyi Duchemin & Ratovonjato, 2004 (Siphonaptera, Leptopsyllidae) from Madagascar with a key to the species of Paractenopsyllus. Zookeys 13: 43-55.

Dick, C. W., C. E. L., Esbérard, G. Graciolli, and D. Gettinger. 2009 In Press. Assessing host specificity of obligate ectoparasites in the absence of dispersal barriers. Parasitology Research.

Online Resources/Publications

Field Museum Insects Division. Online Insect Collections Database: Vertebrate Ectoparasites, including Bat Flies. Posted at the following URL (version 24 March 2009): http://emuweb.fieldmuseum.org/arthropod/ectoparasites.php