Spinturnix semilunaris de Meillon & Lavoipierre 1944

Spinturnix semilunaris de Meillon & Lavoipierre, 1944 Spinturnix semilunaris de Meillon & Lavoipierre, 1944: 65. (Fig. 3) Material: 1 male, ex female Miniopterus arenarius, from Zone of the Southern Nations, eastern shore of the lake Chamo, 23 April 2011, leg. Denis A. Vasenkov & Leonid A. Lavrenchenko (collection ID ZMMU S-189350). Distribution. South Africa (de Meillon & Lavoipierre, 1944); Angola, Central African Republic, DR Congo (as Belgian Congo – Zumpt & Till 1954), Ethiopia (this study, new record), Kenya, Saudi Arabia, South Africa (as Transvaal – Zumpt & Till 1954), Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda (Beron 2020). Host species: Family Miniopteridae: Miniopterus natalensis (de Meillon & Lavoipierre 1944), Min. inflatus (Benoit 1958a), Min. minor (Benoit 1958b), Min. natalensis (as Min. schreibersi natalensis – Anciaux de Faveaux 1965), Miniopterus arenarius (this study, new record); Family Rhinolophidae: Rhinolophus h. hildebrandti (Anciaux de Faveaux 1965). Non-chiropteran host: Unknown. Medical significance: Unknown. Notes: Beron (2020) reviewed the geographic distribution and host records of this species.