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Issue: Vol. 4990 No. 3: 22 Jun. 2021
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2021-06-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4990.3.10
Page range: 583-586
Abstract views: 361
PDF downloaded: 17

New austral-most records of the genus Heterostylum Macquart (Diptera: Bombyiliidae) in Argentina

Cátedra de Botánica General, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, C.A.B.A., Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina.
Centro de Recursos Naturales Renovables de la Zona Semiárida, CONICET, Camino de la Carrindanga Km. 7, 8000 Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Laboratorio de Interacciones Bióticas en Agroecosistemas (LIBA-https://libagro.wixsite.com/liba). Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina.
Centro de Recursos Naturales Renovables de la Zona Semiárida, CONICET, Camino de la Carrindanga Km. 7, 8000 Bahía Blanca, Argentina. 3Laboratorio de Interacciones Bióticas en Agroecosistemas (LIBA-https://libagro.wixsite.com/liba). 5Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina.
Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Diptera Bombyiliidae

Abstract

Bee flies of the genus Heterostylum Macquart are medium-sized species (10–15 mm) characterized primarily by a robust body covered with long pile and by an indented hind margin of the eye (Cunha et al. 2007). There are several studies on the immatures of some species of Heterostylum (Bohart et al. 1960; Yeates & Greathead 1997), which are considered ectoparasites of fossorial solitary bee larvae and pupae (Yeates & Greathead 1997).

 

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