Title:

A new species of Megaselia (Diptera: Phoridae) attacking a wasp and a bee (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Eumeninae and Megachilidae) in South Korea

Subtitle:

Fragmenta Faunistica, vol. 47, no. 1 ; Gastrotricha in littoral ; Fauna bentosowa i epifityczna brzuchorzęsków (Gastrotricha) w litoralu jeziora mezotroficznego

Creator:

Lee, Heung-Sik ; Disney, R. H. L. ; Polska Akademia Nauk. Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii

Publisher:

Museum and Institute of Zoology, PAS

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

2004

Description:

Bibliogr. p. 86-87 ; P. 81-87 ; 25 cm ; Abstarct in Polish. Taxa in Latin.

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Subject and Keywords:

Megaselia sextovittata ; Megaselia chapmani ; predators ; wasps ; Vespidae ; bees ; Apidae ; Chalicodoma sculpturalis ; Anterhynchium flavomarginatum ; South Korea ; new taxa ; Megaselia ; insects ; Insecta ; pests ; phorid flies ; phorids ; Diptera ; Phoridae ; flies ; Brachycera ; brachyceran flies

Abstract:

Newly emerged females of Megaselia sextovittata sp. n. and M. chapmani Borgmeier are reported imbibing haemolymph from the pupae of Chalicodoma sculpturalis (Megachilidae) and Anterhynchium flavomarginatum (Vespidae, Eumeninae). Pupae thus attacked subsequently died.The larvae are reported to be parasitoids of the larvae of these two species of Hymenoptera, butpossibly only develop in hosts that are already debilitated or moribund. No newly emerged flies were observed ovipositing into or onto living host pupae. The feeding on the haemolymph of potential host pupae, by causing the death of those thus attacked, is likely to prevent the normal defensive response that would inhibit the development of the fly larvae in still living pupae. This may have been one route by which the evolution of the parasitoid habit in Phoridae evolved.

Relation:

Fragmenta Faunistica

Volume:

47

Issue:

1

Start page:

81

End page:

87

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

10.3161/00159301FF2004.47.1.081

Source:

MiIZ PAN, call no. P.256, T. 47 nr 1 ; MiIZ PAN, call no. P.4664, T. 47 nr 1 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Restricted Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. Access only on terminals at the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, may be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms.

Digitizing institution:

Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

Programme Innovative Economy, 2010-2014, Priority Axis 2. R&D infrastructure ; European Union. European Regional Development Fund

Access:

Closed