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Notes on Coenosia tigrina (F.) (Diptera: Anthomyiidae), Mainly on Habits and Rearing1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. P. Perron
Affiliation:
Field Crop and Fruit Insect Sections, Science Service Laboratory St. Jean, Que.
E. J. LeRoux
Affiliation:
Field Crop and Fruit Insect Sections, Science Service Laboratory St. Jean, Que.
J. Lafrance
Affiliation:
Field Crop and Fruit Insect Sections, Science Service Laboratory St. Jean, Que.

Extract

Coenosia tigrina (F.) was first observed in Canada in 1943 at Ottawa by Mr. A. R. Brooks of the Entomology Division (Mr. G. E. Shewell, Entomology Division, Ottawa, personal communication). By 1917 the insect had been collected as far west as Guelph, Ontario. It was first recorded from the province of Quebec in 1951 by Perron and Lafrance (1952), who observed it preying on adults of Hylemya antiqua (Mg.) in rearing cages at St. Jean. Later observations and surveys by these workers indicated the predator to be very abundant in southwestern Quebec. More recently Mr. F. M. Cannon (personal communication), Field Crop Insect Section, Science Service Laboratory, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and Mr. L. A. Miller (personal communication), Entomology Laboratory, Chatham, Ont., reported C. tigrina to be present as far east as Charlottetown and as far west as Chatham.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1956

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References

Perron, J. P., and Lafrance, J.. 1952. A note on a dipterous predator of the onion maggot, Hylemya antiqua (Mg.). Canadian Ent. 84: 112.Google Scholar