Thread subject: Diptera.info :: the most crazy fly I've seen so far! Acroceridae - Cyrtus gibbus

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 15-06-2007 19:46
#6

it looks like a wasp!! ;)
This fly is spiders' parasitoid. Under flies I spotted Thanatus cf. vulgaris/atratus (Philodromidae) , and some Pardosa sp. and Hogna radiata (both Lycosidae) wandering around.
But it seems that acrocerids.. "apparently have no fixed host-parasitoid relationships at the species level". And attacks spiders that make web? (not sure about this. But lycosids and philodromids don?t build web. )

Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 15-06-2007 20:13