Lucianaphora
There is one species in this parasitoid genus of Phoridae that attack army ants.
Genus and species | Author and Year | Ant Host | Distribution | |
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Lucianaphora folgaraitae | Disney, 2008 | Acromyrmex lundii | Argentina |
REFERENCES
- Brown BV. Differential host use by neotropical phorid flies (Diptera: Phoridae) that are parasitoids of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Sociobiology. 1999;33(3):95–103.
- Brown BV, Kung GA, Porras W. A new type of ant-decapitation in the Phoridae (Insecta: Diptera). Biodivers Data J. 2015 Jan 2;(3):e4299
- Kung, G.-A. & Brown, B.V. 2005. New species of Dohrniphora related to D. longirostrata (Diptera: Phoridae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 98: 55-62.