The First Record Pseudolynchia canariensis (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) in An Eurasian Eagle Owl (Bubo bubo Linnaeus, 1758) in Turkey (Türkiye’de İlk Kez Bir Bayağı Puhu’da (Bubo bubo Linnaeus, 1758) Pseudolynchia canariensis (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) Olgusu) İpek ERDEM 1,a  Aykut ZEREK 1,b Mehmet YAMAN 1,c 1 Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Hatay Mustafa Kemal, TR-31060 Hatay - TURKEY a ORCID:0000-0002-0086-8294; b ORCID:0000-0002-8533-387X; c ORCID:0000-0001-5399-8060 Article Code: KVFD-2019-22882 Published Online: 19.07.2019 How to Cite This Article Erdem İ, Zerek A, Yaman M: The first record Pseudolynchia canariensis (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) in an Eurasian eagle owl (Bubo bubo Linnaeus, 1758) in Turkey. Kafkas Univ Vet Fak Derg, 25 (6): 887-888, 2019. DOI: 10.9775/kvfd.2019.22882 Dear Editor, Considering host preferences and morphologies, the Hippoboscidae family, known as a louse-fy, bird fy, tick fy, forest fy is a blood-sucking ectoparasites of domestic and wild animals. Although they have certain host preferences, when they need it they can suck blood from other hosts or even people. The Hippoboscidae family includes 3 subfamilies: Lipopteninae, Ornithomyinae and Hippoboscinae, Pseudolynchia canariensis (Mcquart, 1840), which one of the species belong to Ornithomyinae sub- family parasitic in poultry, plays a role in transmission of Haemoproteus columbae to domestic pigeons [1] . Bubo bubo known as Eurasian Eagle-Owl take part in Bubo genus which belong to Strigidae family, which has a variety of habitats showing distinct morphological and anatomical features and activating at night are birds. They often live alone and feed in various arthropods such as fish, reptiles, birds and mice [2] . A wounded puhu (Bubo bubo) brought by Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks Hatay Branch to University of Hatay Mustafa Kemal, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Surgery on 29.11.2017, at the during the inspection were detected one hippoboscid fly. The fy was caughted by hand and for the diagnosis was taken into a glass bottle containing 70% alcohol. It was determined that the captured hippoboscid fy was Pseudolynchia canariensis by observing the distinctive morphological features [3] in the regions of the meta- basisternum (Fig. 1-a), the head (Fig. 1-b,c), the scutellum (Fig. 1-d) and the wing (Fig. 1-e). For this study, the legal permission numbered 42742938-045.01-E.1990278 was obtained from the Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks Hatay Branch. According to various studies in the world, O. unicolor, O. stipituri, O. exilis, O. podargi, O. curvata, Ornithophila metallica, Ornithoctona plicata O. erythrocephala, Ornithomya avicularia, O. anchineuria, O. aobatonis, O. nigricornis, O. fuscipennis, O. parva, O. chloropus, O. fringillina, O. biloba, Olfersia fossulata, Icosta albipennis, I. angustifrons, I. chalcolampra, I. fenestella, I. longipalpis, I. nigra, I. zumpti, I. americana, I. rufiventris, Pseudolynchia canariensis, P. garzettae the species of hippoboscid fies are reported from owls. Within these species Ornithoica exilis, Ornithomya avicularia, O. chloropus, Pseudolynchia garzettae [4] was announced from genus of bubo owl. In Turkey such as type of parasites Haemoproteus sp. [5] , Dispharnx nasuta [6] , Strigiphilus cursitans [7] , Strigiphilus barbatus, Columbicola columbae [8] , from owls and such as type of lice Strigiphilus strigis, Kurodaia longipes [9] has been reported from type of Bubo bubo owls. Pseudolynchia canariensis from Hippoboscid fies have been reported from mice and pigeons [10] . As a result, in this lettering, Pseudolynchia canariensis has been reported for the first time in species of owl the Bubo bubo in Turkey. REFERENCES 1. Karaer KZ, Dumanlı N: Hippoboscidae. In, Kar S, Güven E (Eds): Arthropodoloji. 247-254, Medisan, Ankara, 2015. 2. König C, Weick F: Owls: An overview. In, Redman N (Ed): Owls of the World. 2 nd ed.,18-38, Christopher Helm, London, 2008. 3. McAlpine JF, Peterson BV, Shewell GE, Teskey HJ, Vockeroth JR, Wood DM: Hippoboscidae. In, McAlpine JF (Ed): Manual of Nearctic Diptera  İletşim (Correspondence)  +90 553 9645424  ipekerdem@mku.edu.tr KafKas Universitesi veteriner faKUltesi Dergisi JoUrnal Home-Page: http://vetdergi.kafkas.edu.tr online sUbmission: http://submit.vetdergikafkas.org Letter to the Editor Kafkas Univ Vet Fak Derg 25 (6): 887-888, 2019 DOI: 10.9775/kvfd.2019.22882