Seven new species of Spathidexia Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae) reared from caterpillars in Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Seven new species of Spathidexia Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae) reared from caterpillars in Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica

We describe seven new species of Spathidexia (Diptera: Tachinidae) reared from Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), northwestern Costa Rica. All were reared from ­various species of ACG caterpillars during an ongoing inventory of caterpillars, their food plants and their parasitoids. By coupling m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: AJ Fleming, D. Monty Wood, Daniel Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs, M. Alex Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2015-03-01
Series:Biodiversity Data Journal
Subjects:
<i>Spathidexia</i>
Diptera
Tachinidae
tropical rain forest
tropical dry forest
parasitoid fly
host-specificity
caterpillars.
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