@article {2340, title = {Diversity of Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritoidea) and Their Host Plants in a Conservation Unit from Midwestern Brazil}, journal = {Florida Entomologist}, volume = {102}, year = {2019}, pages = {562-570}, abstract = {

Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae and Lonchaeidae) awere sampled in the Serra da Bodoquena National Park (Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil) and surrounding areas. TThirty-nine plant species from 29 plant families were collected. Twelve fruit species were hosts to fruit fly larvae. The survey resulted in the recovery of 1,476 larvae and 968 adult fruit flies. Among the adultswere 90 Lonchaidae,\  3 spp of Neosilba (Diptera: Lonchaeidae) were obtained.\ 

Neosilba glaberrima (Wiedemann) and Neosilba zadolicha McAlpine \& Steyskal are recorded for the first time infesting Persea americana Miller (Lauraceae), and Neosilba certa (Walker) (all Diptera: Lonchaeidae) infesting Chrysophyllum gonocarpum (Mart. \& Eichler) Engl. (Sapotaceae),\ 

}, author = {Luciano Brasil Martins de Almeida and Jo{\~a}o B. Coelho and MANOEL A. UCHOA and Laura J. Gisloti} } @article {2232, title = {Lance fly (Diptera: Lonchaeidae) host plants in the State of S{\~a}o Paulo, Southeast Brasil.}, journal = {Entomotropica}, volume = {30}, year = {2015}, pages = {57-68}, abstract = {

Many species of Lonchaeidae predominate in the complex of fruit flies (Tephritoidea) infesting more species of host fruits that the species of Tephritidae. In the southern hemisphere, very little is known about the diversity of the species of Lonchaeidae and their host relationship. This paper records the species of Lonchaeidae and their respective host plants as recovered out of a total of 1,522 samples of fruit relating to 113 plant species coming from 94 municipalities of the State of S\ão Paulo, Brazil. A total of 26,906 Lonchaeidae adults were obtained, belonging to 14 species of Neosilba McAlpine, Dasiops inedulis Steyskal, Dasiops frieseni Norrbom \& McAlpine and Lonchaea sp. Specimens of Neosilba represented 99.78 \% of the adults recovered: N. bella Strikis \& Prado, N. bifida Strikis \& Prado, N. certa (Walker), N. cornuphallus Strikis, N. dimidiata Curran, N. inesperata Strikis \& Prado, N. glaberrima (Wiedemann), N. laura Strikis, N. paramerolatus Strikis, N. parva Hennig, N. pradoi Strikis \& Lerena, N. pendula (Bezzi), N. perezi (Romero \& Ruppel) and N. zadolicha McAlpine \& Steyskal. Neosilba zadolicha is predominant, abundant and generalist species

}, url = {http://www.entomotropica.org/index.php/entomotropica/article/viewFile/455/575}, author = {Raga, A. and de Souza-Filho, MF and Strikis, P.C. and Montes, S.M.N.M.} }