Thread subject:
Diptera.info :: ?????, August 2008, Hungary
Posted by
Xespok
on 09-01-2009 20:41
#1
Is this a parasite of a Forficula?
Can anyone suggest anything?
Posted by
Tony Irwin
on 09-01-2009 21:51
#2
Dermaptera parasite -
Triarthria setipennis
or
Ocytata pallipes
(Tachinidae)?
Posted by
Xespok
on 10-01-2009 22:18
#3
Do they protrude like this? I thought Tachinids always develop and pupate within their hosts.
Posted by
Tony Irwin
on 11-01-2009 01:31
#4
I don't know about
Ocytata
, but
Triarthria
larvae leave the host when they are fully developed and pupate outside the host's body. Perhaps this one got stuck!