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PARASITES OF FACE FLY, MUSCA AUTUMNALIS (DIPTERA: MUSCIDAE), AND ASSOCIATED DIPTERA NEAR BELLEVILLE, ONTARIO1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

H. G. Wylie
H. G. Wylie
Affiliation:
Research Station, Canada Department of Agriculture, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Abstract

One larval parasite, Aphaereta pallipes (Say) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), and three pupal parasites (Muscidifurax raptor G. & S., Spalangia nigra Latr., and Eupteromalus dubius (Ashm.) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)) developed on face fly, Musca autumnalis De G. (Diptera: Muscidae), collected near Belleville, Ont. These parasites, and four other Hymenoptera and one staphylinid, were reared from other Diptera associated with M. autumnalis. The economic value of the four face fly parasites is limited because only one (A. pallipes) finds hosts easily, none is host-specific, and few individuals that develop on face fly pupae emerge from the puparia.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 105 , Issue 2 , February 1973 , pp. 257 - 261
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1973

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