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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Oestroidea » Parasitic Flies (Tachinidae) » immature stages · parasitized hosts · metamorphosis
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Spiny Oak-Slug parasite pupa
Copyright © 2011 tom murray

Spiny Oak-Slug parasite pupa
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
September 23, 2011
Size: 8.5mm

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Contributed by tom murray on 23 September, 2011 - 10:17pm
Last updated 8 October, 2014 - 9:45pm

Moved
Moved from Tachinidae.
… Ben Coulter, 8 October, 2014 - 9:45pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Euplectrus.
If you get an adult, maybe Norm Woodley would be willing to examine the specimen.
… Charley Eiseman, 24 September, 2011 - 12:42pm login or register to post comments

Tachinid...
I think Charley is right. This does look like a tachinid pupae. The emergence should be from the right side of this image.
… Ross Hill, 24 September, 2011 - 12:35pm login or register to post comments

 
I agree
That is what I was thinking too: fly puparium. What is the size? Did it come out from inside the caterpillar?
I hope that you still have it.
… Beatriz Moisset, 24 September, 2011 - 12:36pm login or register to post comments

 
I still have it
and hope to see what emerges.
… tom murray, 24 September, 2011 - 12:45pm login or register to post comments

 
Awesome
I agree it looks like a tachinid. For what it's worth, O'Hara's taxonomic and host catalogue lists Hyphantrophaga blanda and H. virilis (subfamily Exoristinae, tribe Goniini) as parasites of Euclea delphinii (based on Arnaud 1978). Many of the Goniini are known for depositing microtype eggs on food plants of hosts, so the species mentioned above may not be it.
… Ben Coulter, 11 November, 2011 - 1:15pm login or register to post comments

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