Hyphantrophaga blanda (Osten Sacken 1887) Osten Sacken 1887
- Dataset
- A review of the tachinid parasitoids (Diptera: Tachinidae) of Nearctic Choristoneura species (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), with keys to adults and puparia
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Tachinidae
- genus
- Hyphantrophaga
- species
- Hyphantrophaga blanda
description
Hyphantrophaga blanda and H. virilis are, at best, uncommon parasitoids of Choristoneura species. They are included here rather than classed as accidental parasitoids of Choristoneura because a record each of H. blanda and H. virilis parasitizing different species of Choristoneura suggests that such parasitization is more opportunistic than accidental, and probably occurs occasionally. Both species are small to mediumsized tachinids (5 – 8 mm long), mostly gray with four black stripes on the thorax and a lightly banded abdomen. They are widely distributed throughout North America (O’Hara & Wood 2004). Sellers (1930) examined reared specimens of H. blanda and H. virilis (both as species of Zenillia RobineauDesvoidy) and described differences between the species in the puparium and both sexes of the adult. Thompson (1953) described and illustrated the egg, larval instars, and puparium of H. blanda.