Revision of the Neotropical Exoristini (Diptera, Tachinidae): The status of the genera Epiplagiops and Tetragrapha

Abstract

The monotypic genera Epiplagiops Blanchard, 1943 and Tetragrapha Brauer and Bergenstamm, 1891 are revised. Both are invalidated and synonymized with Chetogena Rondani, 1856. Their type-species, Epiplagiops littoralis Blanchard, 1943 and Tetragrapha tessellata Brauer and Bergenstamm, 1891, are studied, redescribed, illustrated, and transferred to Chetogena. A lectotype is designated for T. tessellata.

Ichneumonids (Hymenoptera) and Tachinid Flies (Diptera) Associated to Leptidopterans in Soybean Crops

“…Records indicate that their hosts include the families Noctuidae, Notodontidae, Saturniidae, and Sphingidae (Wood & Zumbado, 2010), but studies conducted in South America are still scarce (Gil-Santana et al, 2014). Chetogena consists of 22 species known to occur in the neotropics (Nihei, 2015), including endoparasitoids that attack several groups of insects and mainly several families of Lepidoptera (Sourokov & Mitchell, 2002;Stireman & Singer, 2003a, 2003b. Eucelatoria, on the other hand, is a genus that cluster parasites of lepidopterans of the Noctuidae family, especially of the genus Chloridea, Spodoptera, Pseudaletia, Leucania, Mocis, Trichoplusia and occasionally other lepidopteran families (Sabrosky, 1981).…”

Annotated catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta, Diptera) of Chile

“…The Brazilian tachinid specialist Silvio Shigueo Nihei (1976-present) at the Universidade de São Paulo has published primarily on the Brazilian fauna. A few of his publications are relevant to the Chilean fauna or to the list of generic synonyms in the catalogue below (Nihei 2015(Nihei , 2016Nihei and Dios 2016). A former student of Nihei's, Brazilian Rodrigo de Vilhena Perez Dios (1987-present), published a revision of Ectophasiopsis that includes the single species known from Chile (Dios and Nihei 2017).…”