caa a22 4500 386361185 CHVBK 20180307111915.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198908 xx s 000 0 eng 10.4039/Ent121727-8 doi S0008347X0003193X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.4039/Ent121727-8 DIPALTA SERPENTINA OSTEN SACKEN (DIPTERA: BOMBYLIIDAE) AS A PREDATOR ON PUPAE OF THE ANTLION MYRMELEON IMMACULATUS DEGEER (NEUROPTERA: MYRMELEONTIDAE) IN CALIFORNIA [Elektronische Daten] The first record of Dipalta serpentina Osten Sacken, 1877, preying on larvae of Myrmeleon immaculatus DeGeer, 1773, was by Smith (1934: 136-137), who stated that the fly larvae were "parasitic” on the antlion larvae. Cole and Schlinger (1969: 251) stated that the fly larva of this species " is parasitic on the larvae of Myrmeleontidae.” Although the fly larvae may prey upon the larvae of the antlion, we have established that they definitely prey upon the antlion pupae (Fig. 1). Judging from the emergence dates (early September 1988) of the flies, each had preyed upon an antlion pupa within its cocoon. Each antlion cocoon had one hole in it. An examination of the contents of each antlion cocoon revealed the cast skin of the antlion larva and the empty, clear skin of the antlion pupa. The pupal skins were not split open, which they would have been if the adult antlion had emerged. They were shrivelled, and looked much as if the contents had been sucked out. Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1989 Leech Robin Department of Entomology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E3 MacDonald-Leech B.J. School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, University of Technology-Sydney, Gore Hill, N.S.W. 2065, Australia The Canadian Entomologist Cambridge University Press 121/8(1989-08), 727-728 0008-347X 121:8<727 1989 121 TCE https://doi.org/10.4039/Ent121727-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.4039/Ent121727-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Leech Robin Department of Entomology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E3 NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- MacDonald-Leech B.J. School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, University of Technology-Sydney, Gore Hill, N.S.W. 2065, Australia NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Canadian Entomologist Cambridge University Press 121/8(1989-08), 727-728 0008-347X 121:8<727 1989 121 TCE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge