Posted by Nosferatumyia on 11-08-2008 22:29
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It happens not only in the case of calyptrates, but also in a few parasitic acalyptrates, namely in the circumtropical family Ctenostylidae; they have lost the piercing ovipositor present in related Pyrgotidae, but are ovilarviparous instead; eggs can be inserted like the egg of Stylops, with its beardy, sclerotized and acute egg, which contains the 1st instar larva in. Matsumurania (Tephritidae) is also larviparous, but its larval feeding habits are unknown.