Table 2.

Sporogonic stages of bat malaria in Hippoboscoidea (all Nycteriibidae except for Vetufebrus in a fossil streblid).

Malaria	Vector	Oocyst	Sporozoite	Reference
Vetufebrus ovatus	Fossil streblid	35 × 15,29 × 17 oval	7-10, stubby ends rounded	Present study
P. deanei	Basilia sp.	60, round	8, thick	[12]
P. melanipherus	Nycteribia parvula	?	?	[29]
P. murinus	Nycteribia kolenatii	57-71, round	7.4	[10]
Polychromophilus sp.	Nycteribia dentata	?	7, stubby ends rounded	[28]
Polychromophilus sp.	Penicillidia fulvida	oval, 31 × 10 57 × 47	13, thick, blunt ends	[11]
Polychromophilus sp.	P. dufouri P. conspicua	?	stubby, blunt ends	[5,13]
Polychromophilus ?	Listropoda sp.	?	6.3, stubby, blunt ends	[5,27]

All measurements in microns.