Annotated Catalog of Vespid Hosts (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of Tachinidae (Diptera), with Description of a New Species of <i>Ophirion</i> Townsend from Brazil.
Journal: PubMed
Year: 2023

Although tachinids parasitize a wide variety of insects, vespid wasps are not commonly recorded as hosts. Three lineages of Tachinidae are parasitoids of larvae of eusocial Vespidae, namely the Old World tribe Anacamptomyiini and some Neotropical species of the Blondeliini genera <i>Ophirion</i> Townsend and <i>Lixophaga</i> Townsend. The taxonomy of anacamptomyiine species has been improved and clarified in the last decades, but Neotropical species of <i>Ophirion</i> and <i>Lixophaga</i> are st