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Issue: Vol. 4058 No. 2: 16 Dec. 2015
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-12-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4058.2.11
Page range: 293–295
Abstract views: 29
PDF downloaded: 12

First North American record of the Palaearctic rhinophorid Stevenia deceptoria (Loew) (Diptera: Rhinophoridae)

Canadian National Collection of Insects, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1A 0C6.
DAFNAE-Entomologia, Università degli Studi di Padova, Viale dell’Università 16, 35020 Legnaro (Padova), Italy.
Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY 41099, USA.
Diptera Rhinophoridae stevenia decptoria

Abstract

The Rhinophoridae (Diptera) have a cosmopolitan distribution and a known fauna of about 150 species (Cerretti & Pape 2007). So far as known, all species are parasitoids of terrestrial woodlice (sow bugs) of the order Isopoda (Oniscoidea) (Pape 2010). Female rhinophorids lay eggs in the vicinity of potential hosts and the planidial first instars parasitize sow bugs as they pass by (Pape 1998).