The family Tachinidae is the largest group of insect parasitic flies with over 1,300 species in North America, many of which are important natural enemies of destructive pests. These flies parasit ...

In the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, which is composed by four macroregions, Cerrado, Chaco, Atlantic Forest and Pantanal, there are 39 species and 24 genera of Tachinidae based on the literature. The ...

The phylogenetic analysis based on the mitogenomic dataset recovered the Calliphoridae as monophyletic and inferred the following topology within Oestroidea: (Oestridae (Sarcophagidae (Calliphoridae + ...

The checklist of world Tachinidae offered here is a product of a larger project to database the world’s Tachinidae and eventually publish a comprehensive world catalogue of the Tachinidae. The history ...

1978; Aldana de La Torre et al. 2010). The Tachinidae (Diptera) family comprises more than 8,500 species distributed in all geographic regions of the planet, with the exception of Antarctica (O’Hara ...

ABSTRACT: The fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (JE Smith), is a polyphagous pest reported in sub-Saharan Africa since 2016 and has expanded rapidly in almost Africa. In Niger, Spodoptera ...

Ceromasia auricaudata Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae) is recorded for the first time in Mexico. This also is the first time that C. auricaudata is associated with Neodiprion omosus Smith (Hymenoptera: ...

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The katydid, Neoconocephalus triops L. (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), is parasitized by the lethal tachinid fly, Ormia lineifrons Sabrosky (Diptera: Tachinidae), in Florida. I collected N. triops in the ...

The fly Ormia ochracea (Diptera:Tachinidae) possesses an auditory system that performs analagous functions to those of vertebrate hearing (detection, recognition, segregation, and localization or ...