It could be suggested that Stylogaster females hover below muscids while in flight and flick their eggs directly into the cuticle from beneath.
Eggs of Stylogaster Macquart (Diptera: Conopidae) on Madagascan muscids (Diptera: Muscidae).
Muscid flies (Diptera: Muscidae) have been recorded as frequent Stylogaster hosts and this association in the Afrotropical Region has been recently treated.
The aim of the current paper is to record new African muscid hosts of Stylogaster with a brief discussion of this association.
In temperate environments, the knowledge of ecological aspects of saprophagous muscids is fragmentary.
Assemblages of saprophagous muscids (Diptera: Muscidae) in three urban sites of temperate Argentina
2010) and particularly few studies were focused on the assemblage of saprophagous muscids comparing environments with different degrees of urbanization.
The aim of this work was to characterize the assemblage of saprophagous muscids regarding its richness and abundance, bait preference, heliophily, synanthropy, and seasonality of species in three sites with different urbanization level in a temperate environment of Argentina.
Coenosia is one of the most speciose genera of
muscids in the world, with more than 111 species occurring in the Afrotropical Region (Couri 2007).
No blowfly maggots were present on the carrion, but numerous adult histerids, trogids and staphylinids of various species, some adult silphids (Thanatophilus mutilatus), clerids (Necrobia rufipes) and dermestids (Dermestes maculatus), and a few larval
muscids (Hydrotaea sp.) were present, mainly in the soil beneath the carcass.
Eggs ofStylogaster Macquart (Diptera: Conopidae) on Madagascan
muscids (Diptera: Muscidae).