Tachinid flies of Ecuador

Tachinid flies of Ecuador

Caterpillars and Parasitoids of the Eastern Andes in Ecuador

Caterpillars and Parasitoids of the Eastern Andes in Ecuador is a project dedicated to the inventory and dissemination of information on lepidopteran larvae, host plants, and parasitoids. The project provides valuable material for future morphological and molecular based systematic work and advances our understanding of local and global biodiversity. We also collect and identify all host plants, resulting in a thorough survey of tritrophic interactions in this diverse region. The project is funded by Earthwatch, the National Science Foundation, National Geographic, and personal funds.

Caterpillars and Parasitoids of the Eastern Andes of Ecuador (main caterpillar page)

Yanayacu Biological Station - primary site of caterpillar and parasitoid surveys

Family Tachinidae

Organized by subfamily, tribe, genus, species (with pages for each sex in some species)

Exoristinae

Blondeliini

Anoxynops sp. 1 (male)
Calolydella geminata (male)
Calolydella sp. 1 (female)
Calolydella sp. 1a (male , female)
Calolydella sp. 3
Calolydella sp. 4 (male , female)
Calolydella sp. 5 (male, female)
Erythromelanea sp. 1 (male)
Eucelatoria sp. 3 (male)
Lixophaga sp. 3 (male )
Micronychiops sp. 1
Ptilodegeeria sp. 1
Thelairodoria sp. 1 (female)
Vibrissina sp. 1

Eryciini

Carcelia flavirostris/orellana (male , female)
Lespesia sp. 1 (female)
Lobomyia sp. 1 (male)

Goniini

Hyphantrophaga sp.1
Leschenaultia sp. 1a (male)
Leschenaultia sp. 1
Leschenaultia sp. 2 (female)
Patelloa xanthura/similis (female)
Patelloa andina (male , female)

Dexiinae

Campylochetini

Campylocheta nr. heteroneura

Uramyini

Uramya nr. setiventris sp. 1

Tachininae

Ernestiini

Fasslomyia fantastica (male , female)

Nemoraeini

Xanthophyto sp.

Polideini

Chlorohystricia nr. cussliris
Chrysotachina sp. nr. peruviana
Hystricia laxa (female)
Hystricia sp. 2 nr. micans (male, female)
Hystricia sp. 1 nr. vultura

Siphonini

Actia sp. 1 (female)
Siphona s. lato (Actinocrucata) sp. 4
Siphona s. lato (Actinocrucata) sp. 5

Tachinini

Rhachoepalpus immaculatus
Trichophora sp. 1

Data presented in this web site should be cited as: Stireman, J. O. III, Dyer, L.A., Gentry, G.L., Greeney, H., and T. Walla. Tachinid parasitoids of an Ecuadorian cloud forest.

Photos and web page design/construction by Anne Royer and J.O. Stireman III