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The Amazon Fly (Metagonistylum minense, Towns.) in British Guiana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

L. D. Cleare
L. D. Cleare
Affiliation:
Entomologist, Department of Agriculture, British Guiana.*
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In 1932 on an expedition in Brazil, Dr. J. G. Myers, of the Imperial Institute of Entomology, while in search for suitable parasites for introduction into this and other colonies in the West Indian area, discovered the Tachinid fly Metagonistylum minense, Towns., known generally now as the Amazon fly, as an important parasite of Diatraea saccharalis, F., in the vicinity of Santarem on the Amazon, and as the result of his investigations there, formed the opinion that it would be a suitable parasite for introduction into British Guiana.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , April 1939 , pp. 85 - 102
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1939

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