Delia sanctijacobi is critically assessed and given a revised description using data from scanning electronic microscopy (SEM) DNA barcode analysis. This species recorded for the first time in Brazil Peru. We provide morphological identification key (with figures) Brazil, molecular based on COI (cytochrome C oxidase subunit I) sequences an updated distributional map. also report occurrence of D...

The four nominal species currently included in the anthomyiid genus Chirosiomima Hennig, 1966 are critically assessed and redescribed. It is shown that the type species of Chirosiomima was originally misidentified. Chirosiomima obscurinervis (Emden, 1941) is resurrected from synonymy of C. gestroi (Séguy, 1930). Chirosiomima collini Ackland, 1968 is transferred to Botanophila Lioy (comb. nov.) ...

The temporal incidence of cabbage maggot, Delia radicum L. was investigated using three exclusion cage experiments, one each during spring, summer and fall, in broccoli fields as well as two surveys, one each in three broccoli fields, and sixteen turnip plantings in central coast of California. In the cage experiments, sets of broccoli plants were exposed to natural populations of D. radicum fl...