| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1979 |
| Authors: | P. H. Thompson, Love C. L. |
| Journal: | Southwestern Entomologist |
| Volume: | 4 |
| Pagination: | 298-303 |
| Date Published: | 1979 |
| Keywords: | Biocontrol, Hybomitra lasiophthalma, Marcronychia, Parasites, Sarcophagidae, Tabanidae, Texas, USA |
| Abstract: | During 1976-78, a species of Macronychia near M. aurata (Coq.) parasitised adult tabanids on a river floodplain in south-central Texas. Of 871 females of Hybomitra lasiophthalma (Macq.) trapped from 1 April to 9 May, 4.6% were infested with 1-7 sarcophagid larvae per host; over 80% of the parasites were found free among the flight muscles of the thorax. The parasite completed its development on dead tabanid adults mixed with damp sand, mated after emergence, and probably lived for 1 week or more. The data indicated that the prospects for colonising and using this parasite as a biocontrol agent for tabanids are very encouraging. |
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