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Issue: Vol. 1156 No. 1: 23 Mar. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-03-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1156.1.3
Page range: 65–68
Abstract views: 54
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of Villa Lioy, 1864 (Diptera: Bombyliidae) parasitic on Sesiidae (Lepidoptera)

NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, SL5 7PY, UK
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Urmia University, P.O. Box 165, Urmia, Iran
Diptera Bombyliidae Villa sesivora Lepidoptera Sesiidae Chamaesphecia schizoceriformis Euphorbiaceae Euphorbia boissieriana

Abstract

A new species of Bombyliidae, Villa sesivora sp. nov. reared from pupae of Chamaesphecia schizoceriformis Kolenati (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) feeding in the roots of Euphorbia boissieriana (Woronow) Prokh., 1949 is described from western Iran.

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