scholarly journals Illustrated Key to Pseudacteon Decapitating Flies (Diptera: Phoridae) That Attack Solenopsis saevissima Complex Fire Ants in South America

2001 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanford D. Porter ◽  
Marcos A. Pesquero
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Fire Ants

scholarly journals Host Specificity of Several Pseudacteon (Diptera: Phoridae) Parasites of Fire Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in South America

1995 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanford D. Porter ◽  
Harold G. Fowler ◽  
Sofia Campiolo ◽  
Marcos A. Pesquero
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Host Specificity ◽  
Fire Ants

scholarly journals A review of Hippeutister Reichensperger with new species from California and Costa Rica (Coleoptera: Histeridae: Hetaeriinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1895 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL S. CATERINO ◽  
ALEXEY K. TISHECHKIN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
South America ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fire Ants ◽  
North Central

The myrmecophilous genus Hippeutister Reichensperger, 1935, contains six species, known from scattered localities in North, Central and South America. Two of these, H. californicus n. sp. and H. solisi n. sp. are newly described herein. The other four are H. manicatus (Lewis) (=H. solenopsidis Reichensperger, syn. nov.), H. plaumanni Reichensperger, H. castaneus (Lewis), and H. amabilis (Wenzel). The genus is likely monophyletic, and is easily recognized by the presence of a very broad prosternal keel, which is deeply triangularly incised at the base. Species of Hippeutister are unusual among hetaeriine Histeridae in their occurrence in the nests of fire ants (Solenopsis spp.)

scholarly journals Biology of Pseudacteon Decapitating Flies (Diptera: Phoridae) That Parasitize Ants of the Solenopsis saevissima Complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in South America

Insects ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Chen ◽  
Sanford D. Porter
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
South America ◽  
Sympatric Species ◽  
Time Of Day ◽  
Fire Ants ◽  
South American ◽  
Active Time ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Phorid Flies ◽  
Imported Fire Ants

Pseudacteon flies (Diptera: Phoridae) parasitize individual ant workers, causing decapitation of the host during pupariation. Phorid flies that attack South American fire ants in the Solenopsis saevissima (Smith) complex are distributed across a wide range of habitats and climates associated with the geographical range of their hosts. Sympatric species sharing the same hosts often partition niche resources by season, active time of day, host size, and/or different host activities. They have the potential of being used for biological control of the imported fire ants in North America, Australia, and Asia.

scholarly journals Fire Ants (Solenopsisspp.) and Their Natural Enemies in Southern South America

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Briano ◽  
Luis Calcaterra ◽  
Laura Varone
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Biological Control ◽  
South America ◽  
Natural Enemies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fire Ants ◽  
Fire Ant ◽  
Biological Information ◽  
Southern South America ◽  
Field Release

We review the fire ant research conducted by the ARS-South American Biological Control Laboratory (SABCL) since 1987 to find a complex of natural enemies in southern South America and evaluate their specificity and suitability for field release as self-sustaining biological control agents. We also include those studies conducted by the ARS-Center for Medical, Agriculture, and Veterinary Entomology in the United States with the SABCL collaboration. Ecological and biological information is reported on local fire ants and their microsporidia, nematodes, viruses, phorid flies, eucharitid wasps, strepsiptera, and parasitic ants. Their biology, abundance, distribution, detrimental effect, field persistence, specificity, and phenology are discussed. We conclude that the objectives of the ARS program in South America are being achieved and that the pioneering studies have served to encourage further investigations in the United States and other countries and advanced the implementation of biological control programs to decrease imported fire ant densities and damage. Still, several promising organisms should be further investigated for eventual field release in the near future.

scholarly journals First Observation of Polygyny in Fire Ants, Solenopsis SPP., in South America

1989 ◽  
Vol 96 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 161-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald P. Jouvenaz ◽  
Daniel P. Wojcik ◽  
Robert K. Vander Meer
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Fire Ants ◽  
In Fire
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