First record of transantarctic relationships in the Tachinidae (Diptera, Muscoidea, Calyptratae)

First record of transantarctic relationships in the Tachinidae (Diptera, Muscoidea, Calyptratae)

Raul Cortes

Retired Graduate Research Professor of Entomology, Facultad de Agronomia, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 1004, Santiago, Chile

ABSTRACT

The Trichoprosopini (Tachinidae, Tachininae) from Southern Chile are considered in this paper a sister group tribe of the New Zealand Cccisorini, both tribes being parasitic on Scarabaeid larvae. This is a new evidence of transan-tarctic relationships in the Calyptrate Muscoidea.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Study of the Tachinid collection at the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo was made possible through a generous grant (Proc. 2.31.20.617/ 82) from the "Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico" (Brazil) (CNPq). To Drs. José Henrique Guimarães and Nelson Papavero my grateful thanks for discussing and reviewing the manuscript of this paper.

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Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  28 Aug 2009
• Date of issue
  1982