Thread subject: Diptera.info :: parasite fly

Posted by Zeegers on 15-05-2006 17:00
#3

Hi Shar

This is clearly a Mintho rufiventris. The pattern on the thorax is characteristic, as is the wing venation (long appendix to bend in vein M).

The host are to be found in the microlepidoptera, especially Pyralidae.
So your geometrid caterpillar is an unlikely host.


Theo Zeegers