Biology:Acantholespesia comstocki

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Acantholespesia comstocki
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Subfamily: Exoristinae
Tribe: Eryciini
Genus: Acantholespesia
Species:
A. comstocki
Binomial name
Acantholespesia comstocki
Williston, 1889[1]
Synonyms
  • Phorocera comstocki Williston, 1889[1]


Acantholespesia comstocki is a species of bristle fly in the family Tachinidae.[2][3] Its larval hosts are Hesperiidae, Megathymidae and Pyralidae families of butterflies.[4]

Distribution

United States .

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Williston, S.W. (1889). The dipterous parasites of North American butterflies. Pp. 1912–1924 + pl. 89. In: Scudder, S.H., ed., The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada with special reference to New England.. 3. Published by author, Cambridge.. pp. 1775–1958 + pl. 89.. 
  2. O'Hara, James E.; Wood, D. Monty (28 January 2004). "Checklist Of The Tachinidae (Diptera) Of America North Of Mexico" (PDF). Nicaragua: Biodiversidad de Nicaragua. pp. 1–42. http://www.bio-nica.info/biblioteca/OHara2004Tachinidae.pdf. 
  3. O’Hara, James E.; Shannon, J. Henderson; D. Monty, Wood (5 March 2020). "World Checklist of the Tachinidae". http://www.nadsdiptera.org/Tach/WorldTachs/Checklist/Tachchlist_ver2.1.pdf. 
  4. Zetina, Dulce H.; Llanderal, Celina; Huerta, Herón (June 2012). "Acantholespesia texana 1 : A New Report for Mexico, as a Parasitoid of Comadia Redtenbacheri Hamm. 2". Southwestern Entomologist 37 (2): 235–237. doi:10.3958/059.037.0217. 

Wikidata ☰ Q14732138 entry