Phrosinella (Euhilarella) pilosifrons Allen 1926

• Main Authors: Verves, Yury, Khrokalo, Liudmyla
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Sarcophagidae; Phrosinella; Phrosinella pilosifrons; Northwest Territories
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11109860; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AD936F2062FF9CFF7DD3CCFF3EFB72

Phrosinella ( Euhilarella ) pilosifrons Allen, 1926 Phrosinella pilosifrons Allen, 1926: 76 [♂ ♀]. Phrosinella pilosifrons : Criddle, 1927: 47 [faunistic]; Downes, 1965: 938 [catalogue]; Evans, 1966: 35 [habits]; 1970: 465 [habits]; Bohart and Grissell, 1975: 19 [habits]; Spofford et al., 1989: 257 [hosts]; Pape, 1996: 125 [catalogue]; Valenti et al., 1997: 167 [faunistic]; Pickering, 2009: 1722, 1726 [habits]. Holotype ( male ): USA, Washington, Hood River. Deposited in USNM. Distribution: Nearctic: Canada (British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Ontario 10); USA (California, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming 11). Habits: Larvae are specialized kleptoparasites in ground nests of sphecid wasps from the genus Philanthus [ P. barbiger (Evans and O’Neil, 1988), P. crabroniformis (Evans, 1970; Evans and O’Neil, 1988; Pickering, 2009), P. nitens (Evans, 1966, 1970), P. pulcher (Evans, 1970; Evans and O’Neil, 1988), P. zebratus (Evans, 1970; Bohart and Grissell, 1975; Evans and O’Neil, 1988; Pickering, 2009)], where they feed at different freshly killed solitary wasps and bees. Published as part of Verves, Yury & Khrokalo, Liudmyla, 2017, A review of subtribe Phrosinellina Verves, 1989, with description of Phrosinella (Asiometopia) kocaki sp. nov. from the Middle East (Diptera: Sarcophagidae: Miltogramminae: Metopiaini), pp. 43-59 in Turkish Journal of Zoology 41 (1) on page 53, DOI:10.3906/zoo-1512-60, http://zenodo.org/record/10973790