New Pseudacteon (Diptera : Phoridae) from North America that parasitizes the native fire ant Solenopsis geminata (Hymenoptera : Formicidae)

Authors
Brown, BV Morrison, LW
Citation
Bv. Brown et Lw. Morrison, New Pseudacteon (Diptera : Phoridae) from North America that parasitizes the native fire ant Solenopsis geminata (Hymenoptera : Formicidae), ANN ENT S A, 92(3), 1999, pp. 308-311
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Entomology/Pest Control
Journal title
ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
ISSN journal
00138746 → ACNP
Volume
92
Issue
3
Year of publication
1999
Pages
308 - 311
Database
ISI
SICI code
0013-8746(199905)92:3<308:NP(:PF>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
A new species, Pseudacteon bifidus, is described from Travis County, TX. It differs from all other North American Pseudacteon species by the structure of the ovipositor in females and the shape of antennal flagellomere 1 in m ales. Females attack Mts of the species Solenopsis geminata and have distin ctive preoviposition behavior.