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Myiopharus neilli O'Hara, 2007

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Left lateral view of adult male
Body length: 6.9mm
Specimen identifier number: TachImage-00092
Label data: "Canada Manitoba/ Lowe Farm/ 49°21'N 97°35'W/ G.B. Neill", "ex. adult of/ Zygogramma/ exclamationis/ [host] coll. 9.viii.1977", "HOLOTYPE/ Myiopharus/ neilli/ O'Hara"
Depository: Canadian National Collection of Insects
Image by Shannon Henderson, AAFC

Left lateral view of adult female
Body length: 6.9mm
Specimen identifier number: TachImage-00093
Label data: "Canada Manitoba/ Rosenfeld/ 49°12'N 97°33'W/ G.B. Neill", "ex. adult of/ Zygogramma/ exclamationis/ [host] coll. viii.1977", "ALLOTYPE/ Myiopharus/ neilli/ O'Hara"
Depository: Canadian National Collection of Insects
Image by Shannon Henderson, AAFC

Ventral view of adult female mid coxae
Specimen identifier number: TachImage-00094
Label data: n/a
Depository: Canadian National Collection of Insects
Image by Shannon Henderson, AAFC

Classification
Insecta: Diptera
Tachinidae
Exoristinae
Blondeliini
Myiopharus neilli

Additional information and links

Distributional, taxonomic and host information for Myiopharus neilli
Myiopharus page in Taxonomic and host-parasitoid catalogue of the Tachinidae of American north of Mexico

References
O'Hara, J.E. 2007. A new species of Myiopharus Brauer and Bergenstamm (Diptera: Tachinidae) parasitic on adults of the sunflower beetle, Zygogramma exclamationis (Fabricius). Zootaxa 1521: 31–41.

Wood, D.M. 1986. A taxonomic conspectus of the Blondeliini of North and Central America and the West Indies (Diptera: Tachinidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 132 [1985]: 1–130.