Biology:Thelaira leucozona

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Short description: Species of fly

Thelaira leucozona
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Subfamily: Dexiinae
Tribe: Voriini
Genus: Thelaira
Species:
T. leucozona
Binomial name
Thelaira leucozona
(Panzer, 1806)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Musca leucozona Panzer, 1806

Thelaira leucozona is a species of fly in the family Tachinidae first described by Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer in 1806.[3] [2][4] It parasitizes moths such as Arctia caja by laying eggs in the larvae that eventually kill the host.

Distribution

Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France , Germany , Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Poland , Switzerland [5] and United Kingdom [6]

References

  1. Panzer, G.W.F. (1806). Faunae insectorum Germanicae initia oder Deutschlands Insecten. Heft 104. Nürnberg [= Nuremberg].: Felsecker. pp. 24 pp. + 24 pls. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Chandler, Peter J. (1998). Checklists of Insects of the British Isles (New Series) Part 1: Diptera. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. 12. London: Royal Entomological Society of London. pp. 1–234. ISBN 0-901546-82-8. 
  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. James E. O'Hara, Hiroshi Shima, & Chuntian Zhang. "Annotated Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China." Zootaxa 2190 (2009): 1-236.
  5. "Thelaira leucozona (Panzer 1809)". Fauna Europaea project. http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=144328. 
  6. Bergström, C. (2004). "Thelaira leucozona (Panzer) (Diptera, Tachinidae) new to Britain". Dipterists Digest. Second Series (Dipterists Forum) 11 (2): 171–172. 

Wikidata ☰ Q7781001 entry