A coleta de Diptera em fezes bovinas depositadas nas pastagens foi conduzida de janeiro a agosto de 2001 em Itumbiara, Goiás. As fezes foram expostas nas pastagens por 24, 48, 72, 96, 120, 144, 168, 192, 216 e 240 horas e posteriormente levadas para laboratório para extração e separação dos dípteros. Um total de 100 fezes bovinas foram expostas nas pastagens, das quais 3099 dípteros muscóides foram coletados. As espécies mais abundantes foram: Palaeosepsis spp. e Sarcophagula occidua. A maioria dos exemplares foi coletada em fezes bovinas expostas nos períodos de 72 e 144 horas no campo.

Este trabalho relata a primeira ocorrência do parasitóide Paraganapis egeria Diaz & Gallardo (Hymenoptera: Eucoilidae) parasitando pupas de Haematobia irritans L. (Diptera: Muscidae) na região Neotropical. As fezes bovinas foram coletadas nas pastagens da Fazenda Canchim da Embrapa de São Carlos-SP, de abril de 1993 a abril de 1994. As pupas foram separadas das fezes bovinas por flutuação em baldes com água. As recolhidas foram acondicionadas individualmente em cápsulas de gelatina até a emergência dos dípteros ou dos seus parasitóides. Foram obtidas 718 pupas de H. irritans, das quais duas emergiram parasitóides. Constatou-se parasitismo de 0,26%.

Muscoid dipterous insects associated with pig carcass and their parasitoids collected in pasture and wood were collected from savanna (cerrado) at Goiás, Brazil. The species collected more often were: Chrysomya albiceps (89.5%), Ophyra sp. (6.9%) (flies) and Pachycrepoideus vindemiae (33.3%) and Spalangia endius (38.8%) (parasitoids). The parasitism rate was 0.4%.

Species of parasitoids of dung-breeding Diptera were collected at a range pasture in Itumbiara, GO, Brazil. The samples of bovine dung, approximately seven and eight day-old, were collected and carried to the laboratory and the pupae were extracted by water flotation. The pupae were individually placed in transparent gelatin capsules until the emergence of the adult flies or their parasitoids. Spalangia drosophilae (40.8%) Ashmead and Spalangia nigroaenea (35.6%) were the predominant species that parasitized pupae of dipterous muscoids. The rate of parasitism was 3.8%.

A total number of 8779 pupae of Diptera were collected in stables in the municipal district of Itumbiara, GO, Brazil, from June to December 1999. The principal fly and parasitoid species found were Musca domestica L. (38.4%), Sarcophagula occidua Fabricius (51.5%) (flies), Pachycrepoideus vindemiae (Rondani) (28.0%) and Paraganaspis egeria Diaz & Gallardo (29.3%).

This work reports, for the first time, the occurrence of Triplasta atrocoxalis (Hymenoptera: Eucoilidae) parasitizing pupae of Cyrtoneurina pararescita (Diptera: Muscidae) in cattle dung in Brazil.

Four hymenopterous parasitoids were found from Cyrtoneurina pararescita Couri pupae: Spalangia cameroni Perkins, Spalangia endius Walker, Spalangia nigroaenea Curtis and Spalangia sp. The predominant parasitoids of C. pararescita was S. nigroaenea. These parasitoids accounted for 0.63% of the parasitism.