RESUMO

A new species of the New World genus Lespesia, Lespesia melloi SP NOV: (Diptera: Tachinidae), is described from southeastern Brazil. The species is reported here as a parasitoid of Xanthopastis timais (Cramer, 1782) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). The caterpillars of this noctuid feed on leaves and bulbs of amaryllis (Amaryllidaceae) in Brazil.

Assuntos

Dípteros/classificação , Lepidópteros/parasitologia , Animais , Brasil , Dípteros/fisiologia , Feminino , Masculino