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Issue: Vol. 3664 No. 4: 28 May 2013
Type: Article
Published: 2013-05-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3664.4.6
Page range: 525–536
Abstract views: 75
PDF downloaded: 3

Description and host interactions of a new species of Exetasis Walker (Diptera: Acroceridae), with a key to species of the genus

Acanthoscurria Argentina small-headed flies spider parasitoid Theraphosidae

Abstract

<i>Exetasis jujuyensis</i> Gillung sp. nov. (Acroceridae) is described from Argentina and a dichotomous key to species of <i>Ex-etasis</i> Walker is provided. Detailed observations are presented on the effect of fly larval development on the behavior of the host spider (<i>Acanthoscurria sternalis</i> Pocock (Theraphosidae)).