HOSTS 

 Bats 



Asellia (= Hipposiderus ) tridens and Taphozous perforatus 

 (Roubavid and Colas-Be lco\ar 1933 J. Taphozous _£. perforatus , T. 

 (Liponycteris ) nudiventris , Rhiponoma hardwickei cystops , suicf 

 Otonycteris h. hemprichi are most heavily infested in Eg/-pt. 



christei ^ __, ,-,^ ^ ^, 



Rhino lophus lobatus (Sudan record above ^» Eptesicus tenuipinnis 

 (rtoogstraal i^^5S|. 



Otonycteris h. hemprichi , a bat which roosts in small caves, 

 crevices and niches, usually singly or with very few other of the 

 same species, is most heavily infested in Egypt, Rhino po ma h, 

 cy stops , one of the most common cave-inhabiting bats near Caaro, 

 is frequently heavily infested and probably represents the most 

 important host in this area owing to its great abundance. All 

 stages appear to feed on the same kinds of bats, 



Man 



Nymphs and adults have bitten us in caves on a few occasions. 

 They readily do so when allowed to in the laboratory (Hoogstraal 

 1952A,195a,1955B). 



BIOLOGY 

 Life Cycle 



Rearing of A, boxieti has been accomplished in our laboratories 

 at temperatures of from 8(PF, to 90^. with relative humidity 

 rajiging from W^ to 50^. Exceptionally large females may lay 

 single egg batches of almost two hundred eggs over a two or three 

 day period. An average size female deposits from 35 to 40 eggs 

 in a single batch usually on a vertical surface. Afterwards, she 



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