Two New Genera and Species of Eryciine Tachinidae (Diptera) From Australia

Abstract

Two new genera and species of Tachinidae from New South Wales, Victoria and the Capital Territory are described and assigned to the tribe Eryciini. The characters of the Eryciini and the occurrence of the group in Australia are briefly discussed.

Attack Biology and Egg Maturation Strategy of Two Tachinid Parasitoids of Leafroller (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) Pests in Tree Fruit

“…The Eryciini are a polyphyletic tribe, representing an assemblage of species that do not fit into any of the more defined tribes. The tribe represents both oviparous and ovolarviparous species (Herting 1960, Crosskey 1967, Herting 1984. Although ovolarvipary is a derived character, it has evolved multiple times in the Tachinidae (Stireman 2002, Tachi andShima 2009).…”

POPULATION BIOLOGY OF CHLENIAS SP., A GEOMETRID DEFOLIATOR OF PINUS RADIATA IN TASMANIA

“…Apparently healthy larvae were collected from an area with a high incidence of disease. After 36 h, the majority of larvae were *Crosskey (1973) inactive with a limited movement of the thoracic legs and anal claspers. Larvae remained in this condition for the next 48 h at which time movement was observable only beyond segment 6.…”

Annotated catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta, Diptera) of the Afrotropical Region, with the description of seven new genera

“…The tribe is placed in the Phasiinae herein as supported by the morphological analysis of Cerretti et al (2014) . Imitomyia Townsend with Diplopota Bezzi in synonymy was recognized as the sole Afrotropical genus of the Imitomyiini by Crosskey (1980b , 1984 ). Herting (1984) treated both Imitomyia and Diplopota as valid but the synonymy of Crosskey is followed here, as it was by O’Hara (2014) .…”

“…The Afrotropical fauna of the Tachinidae was last catalogued 35 years ago by Crosskey (1980b) , who had previously prepared conspecti of the tachinids of Australia and the Oriental Region ( Crosskey 1973b , 1976 ). His catalogue and the keys that followed four years later to the tachinid genera of southern and tropical Africa ( Crosskey 1984 ) continue to this day as the main sources of information on the classification and identification of Afrotropical Tachinidae . Crosskey prefaced his catalogue with a review of the “scanty” knowledge of the biology and hosts of the tachinids of the region, and briefly summarized the unsettled state of the classification.…”

“… Crosskey (1984) reviewed in some detail the history of tachinid taxonomy in the Afrotropical Region. He unflatteringly portrayed the most prolific of the early taxonomists, Villeneuve and Curran, as failing to bring order to the fauna at the supraspecific level and of leaving a legacy of species largely unidentifiable without study of the types.…”