Parasitoidism of Chalcidid wasps (Hymenoptera, Chalcididae) on Philornis sp. (Diptera, Muscidae)

Abstract

Philornis Meinert larvae are known as parasites of birds, with coprophagous, semi-hematophagous or hematophagous habits. Biological data of the larvae of the fifty described species are still scarcely known. Here we describe some aspects of the parasitism of a species of Philornis on Thalurania glaucopis Gmelin (Trochilidae) and record two species of Chalcididae (Hymenoptera) parasitoids, Conura annulifera (Walker, 1864) and Brachymeria podagrica (Fabricius, 1787), reared from Philornis puparia.

Insectos asociados a ovisacos de Argiope argentata (Fabricius, 1775) (Arachnida: Araneae) en Panamá

“…Por lo general parasitan pupas de lepidópteros (Marchiori et al, 2004;Tibcherani et al, 2016;Marcicano et al, 2007). Sin embargo, algunas especies se han registrado atacando coleópteros (Montes y Costa, 2011) y dípteros (Marchiori et al, 2004;Couri et al, 2006), o comportándose como hiperparasitoides sobre himenópteros de las familias Braconidae e Ichneumonidae (Mariau, 2001;Sakazaki et al, 2011;Tavares et al, 2019 El impacto de los insectos que atacan huevos de arañas es de gran importancia en su ciclo de vida (Wawer y Kostro-Ambroziak, 2016). Ovisacos como los de A. argentata que contienen gran cantidad de huevos sirven de base a varias especies de insectos y diversas interacciones (Prakash y Pandian, 1978).…”

Aspects of the life cycle of the avian parasitePhilornis torquans(Diptera: Muscidae) under laboratory rearing conditions

“…This speculation is also shared by Bennett and Whitworth (1991) for Protocalliphora Hough species (Diptera: Calliphoridae), which also infest bird nestlings. The pupae of some Philornis that form frothy cocoons (Ferrar 1980; Couri 1999; Couri et al 2006) are parasitised by species of Brachymeria Westwood and Conura Spinola (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae) (Couri et al 2006; Bulgarella et al 2015; Delvare et al 2017). Although this observation supports the hypothesis of predator protection, the origin and function of the cocoon is still unknown for Philornis .…”

First record of Conura (Conura) maculata (Fabricius, 1787) (Hymenoptera, Chalcididae) parasitizing Opsiphanes invirae amplificatus Stichel, 1904 (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) in the province of Corrientes, Argentina

“…The Neotropical fauna is represented by 217 species (Delvare and Arias-Penna 2006) of which 63 have been reported in Argentina (Noyes 2017), where the genus Conura Spinola,1837 is the best represented, with 30 species (Noyes 2017). Conura are generally parasitoids of both larval and pupal stages of lepidopteran (Marchiori et al 2004, Marcicano et al 2007, Salgado-Neto and Lopes da Silva 2011, Tibcherani et al 2016), but also parasitize larvae of Diptera and other Hymenoptera (Stireman andSinger 2003, Couri et al 2006), Coleoptera (Montes and Costa 2011), and Neuroptera, or are hyperparasitoids of Icneumonidae and Tachinidae (Couri et al 2006, Sakazaki et al 2011. They are usually solitary parasitoids, but some smaller species are gregarious (Gates et al 2012).…”