Macquartia chalconota (Meigen 1824)

Zhang, Baihui, Li, Henan, Li, Junjian, Zhang, Dong & Zhang, Chuntian, 2023, Taxonomic study of the genus Macquartia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Tachinidae) from China, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 106273-106273 : 106273

Macquartia chalconota (Meigen 1824)

Diagnosis

Frons of male 1/3-2/3 as wide as postpedicel, Parafacial bare, at most hairy on upper half. Palpi reddish-yellow, seldom dark at apex. Thoxax with 3 postsutural dorsocentral setae. Lower calyptrae not divergent from scutellum. Mid-tibia with 2-5 anterodorsal setae, hind tibia with 2 pre-apical dorsal setae. Abdomen of female covered with covered greyish pruinosity, with gleaming markings. Mid-dorsal excavation of abdominal syntergite 1+2 not extending to its posterior margin, without median marginal seta, 3rd tergite with 2-4 marginal setae.

Distribution

Palaearctic China (Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Qinghai), Europe, Russia, Transcaucasus.

Hosts

Coleoptera , Chrysomelidae : Chrysolina herbacea Duftschmid, Entomoscelis adonidis Pallas, Chrysomelidae sp. ( Tschorsnig 2017: 264).