The parasitoidism of an adult female Heniartes jaakkoi Wygodzinsky, 1947 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae: Apiomerini) by a Xanthomelanodes cf. brasiliensis Townsend, 1929 (Diptera: Tachinidae: Phasiinae: Gymnosomatini), from Nova Friburgo, Brazil, is recorded. Previous observations Phasiinae eggs on three species Harpactorinae had been made, but without record the parasitoid ...

Three new species of Paropesia Mesnil (Phasiinae, Parerigonini) are described: P. discalis sp. nov. from China and Myanmar, P. grisea sp. nov. from Japan and P. tessellata sp. nov. from Myanmar and China. The type species of Paropesia, P. nigra Mesnil, is redescribed. The male and female terminalia of the new species are described and illustrated and characteristics of the genus Paropesia are b...

The Chinese species of Hemyda Robineau-Desvoidy (Phasiinae, Cylindromyiini) are revised. Five species are recognized, consisting of the previously recorded species H. hertingi Ziegler & Shima, H. obscuripennis (Meigen) and H. vittata (Meigen), one new species from NW Yunnan, Hemyda deqinensis sp. nov., and one new record for China, H. dominikae Draber-Mońko. A generic diagnosis of Hemyda is pro...

during a faunal survey on the family tachinidae in fars province, six tachinid parasitoids belonging to the subfamilies tachininae and phasiinae were collected and identified. they are reported for the first time from iran. the species are as follows: linnaemya neavei curran, microcerophina planifacies kugler, phasia mesnili (draber-monko), catharosia flavicornis (zetterstedt), leucostoma enged...