%0 Journal Article %T On the first tachinid fly (Diptera, Tachinidae) carrying Asclepiadoideae pollinaria in the Neotropical Region %A Nihei %A Silvio Shigueo %A Schwarz %A Elizabeth de Araujo %J Revista Brasileira de Entomologia %D 2011 %I Sociedade Brasileira De Entomologia %R 10.1590/S0085-56262011005000031 %X on the first tachinid fly (diptera, tachinidae) carrying asclepiadoideae pollinaria in the neotropical region. this paper reports the first neotropical tachinidae species possibly associated to pollination of asclepiadoideae: a female of euacaulona sumichrasti townsend, 1908 (diptera, tachinidae, phasiinae, trichopodini) carrying pollinaria of gonolobus parviflorus decne., 1844 (apocynaceae, asclepiadoideae, asclepiadeae: gonolobinae) attached to its proboscis. the fly specimen was collected in paraguay, departamento canindey¨˛. the pollinarium is illustrated and described herein. this represents the first anthophilous record to g. parviflorus and to the genus. %K anthophily %K apocynaceae-asclepiadoideae %K euacaulona %K gonolobus %K pollination %K trichopodini. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0085-56262011000300021&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en