| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1998 |
| Authors: | R. A. Wharton, Ovruski, S. M., Gilstrap, F. E. |
| Journal: | Journal of Hymenoptera Research |
| Volume: | 7 |
| Pagination: | 102 - 105 |
| Abstract: | All 74 specimens of Lopheucoila anastrephae collected in Costa Rica were reared from isolated puparia of Neosilba batesi (Curran), the most abundant of the two species of Lonchaeidae in the Costa Rican samples. Although 69,000 puparia of Anastrepha and Ceratitis were collected from 1979-1982 in Costa Rica, L. anastrephae was never reared from a tephritid during this period. Our own records suggest that Aganaspis pelleranoi may only rarely attack lonchaeids. Of 295 specimens of A. pelleranoi that we reared from isolated puparia in Costa Rica, only two were from a lonchaeid - Neosilba batesi (Curran) |