Aldrichiopa, Guimaraes, 1971

Torres-Domínguez, Diana Marcela, Gallardo, Fabiana & Mulieri, Pablo R., 2024, Taxonomic review of the genus Aldrichiopa Guimarães, 1971 (Diptera: Tachinidae) with notes on antennal morphology and description of a new species, Zootaxa 5405 (3), pp. 354-380 : 376

Aldrichiopa hosts

Aldrichiopa coracella has been reported as a parasitoid of the Chilean carpenter worm Chilecomadia valdiviana ( Artigas 1994; Baldini & Pancel 2002; Estay 2020) and Chilecomadia moorei ( Artigas 1994) . Cortés (1948) explains that A. coracella was obtained from the last larval instar of a Langsdorfia sp. The larva of the moth emerges from the egg laid in the bark of fruit and forest trees and penetrates the interior of the tree without leaving it until it is ready to pupation. Considering the evidence of ovolarviparity of A. coracella the larva could be deposited very near its host. Furthermore, Cortes (1968) mentioned an interesting finding that 11 Aldrichiopa specimens were obtained from a single Langsdorfia larva which indicates a gregarious parasitoid behavior.