The predator Coenosia Attenuata Stein (Diptera, Muscidae) on cultivated plants from Brazil

Abstract

Coenosia attenuata Stein (1903) is a predatory fly that is commonly found in greenhouses and open fields preying on whiteflies, leafminers, psocopterans and other insects. The species is widespread in the Old World and its distribution has expanded in recent times to Neotropical countries including Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Peru. We report here for the first time the presence of C. attenuata in Brazil, occurring in different sites in the State of Ceará (Northeastern Brazil). Expansion of the distribution range of this muscid to the eastern parts of South America opens up the possibility of applying the beneficial predator as a biological control agent for protected crops of the region.

Predatory arthropod community composition in apple orchards: Orchard management, landscape structure and sampling method

“…The focus here has been on those flies common in apple orchards, but there are many common predatory dipterans, such as robber flies (Asilidae), hunter flies (Muscidae: Coenosia) and dung flies (Scathophagidae), that may be potentially important predators in various ecosystems (e.g. Couri et al., 2018; Joern & Rudd, 1982; Kühne, 2000; Pohl et al., 2012). To understand the complete food web in these areas, it is important that future studies investigating the abundance, diversity and function of predatory arthropods do not overlook predatory Diptera.…”

First report of Coenosia attenuata (Stein, 1903) (Diptera, Muscidae) in Uruguay, confirmed by DNA barcode sequences

“…In the Americas, this fly was recorded for the first time in Ecuador, Peru, and the United States in 2002 (Martínez-Sánchez et al 2002;Hoebeke et al 2003). Later, it was found in Canada (Sensenbach 2004), Colombia (Pérez 2006), Costa Rica (Hernández 2008), Chile (Couri and Salas 2010), Mexico (Bautista-Martínez et al 2017), Venezuela (Solano et al 2017), Brazil (Couri et al 2018), and Honduras (Orozco 2018).…”

Effect of Prey Species and Prey Densities on the Performance of Adult Coenosia attenuata

“…The predaceous fly Coenosia attenuata Stein (Diptera: Muscidae), also known as "tiger fly", "killer fly" or "hunter fly" [1][2][3][4], is native to Southern Europe [4,5] and has been reported to have spontaneously colonized a number of crops outdoors and in greenhouses in many countries worldwide [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. It has received attention because of its ability to of 13 effectively suppress a wide range of agricultural pests, such as fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaridae), whiteflies (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), leaf miners (Diptera: Agromyzidae), winged aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae), leafhoppers of the genera Eupteryx (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) and Empoasca (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), midges (Diptera: Chironomidae), moth flies (Diptera: Psychodidae), shore flies (Diptera: Ephydridae) and fruit flies (Diptera: Drosophilidae) [7,8,13,[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35].…”