Lopheucoila Weld, 1951
Remarks
The genus Lopheucoila is known only from the New World. Only one of the three described species, Lopheucoila anastrephae (Rohwer), has ever been reared.
For more detailed information, see the Lopheucoila anastrephae page. For a key to genera and additional information on eucoilines, see the Eucoilinae page.
Distribution
Known distribution is from Mexico to northern Argentina (Rohwer 1919, Weld 1951, Guimaraes 1998, Wharton et al. 1998, Gallardo and Diaz (1999)).
Distribution
No referenced distribution records have been added to the database for this OTU.
Biology / Hosts
Although recorded from A. fraterculus and other, undetermined species of Anastrepha, the normal hosts of L. anastrephae appear to be fruit-infesting members of the genus Neosilba in the family Lonchaeidae (Wharton et al. 1998).