Biology:Thelaira leucozona

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Short description: Species of fly

Thelaira leucozona
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Subfamily: Dexiinae
Tribe: Voriini
Genus: Thelaira
Species:
T. leucozona
Binomial name
Thelaira leucozona
(Meigen & Panzer, 1806)[1]
Synonyms
  • Musca leucozona Meigen & Panzer, 1806[1]
  • Musca lucozona Sherborn, 1922[2]
  • Thelaira valida Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863[3]

Thelaira leucozona is a species of fly in the family Tachinidae first described by Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer in 1806.[4][5][6] It parasitizes moths such as Arctia caja by laying eggs in the larvae that eventually kill the host.[5]

Distribution

Great Britain,[7] Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Bulgaria, Italy, Serbia, Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Russia, Transcaucasia, China.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Panzer, G.W.F. (1806). Favnae insectorvm germanicae initia oder Devtschlands Insecten. H. 103. Nurnberg [= Nuremberg]: Felsecker. pp. 24 pp.,24 pls. 
  2. ↑ Sherborn, C.D. (1922). Sectio Secunda. A kalendis Ianuariis, MDCCCI usque ad finem Decembris, MDCCCL. London: British Museum. pp. cxxxi + 7056. 
  3. ↑ Robineau-Desvoidy, Jean-Baptiste (1863). Histoire naturelle des dipteres des environs de Paris.. Tome second. Masson et Fils, Paris.. pp. 1–920. https://archive.org/download/histoirenaturell02robi/histoirenaturell02robi.pdf. Retrieved 15 February 2015. 
  4. ↑ O’Hara, James E.; Henderson, Shannon J.; Wood, D. Monty (5 March 2020). "Preliminary Checklist of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of the World". http://www.nadsdiptera.org/Tach/WorldTachs/Checklist/Tachchlist_ver2.1.pdf. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 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. 
  6. ↑ James E. O'Hara, Hiroshi Shima, & Chuntian Zhang. "Annotated Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China." Zootaxa 2190 (2009): 1-236.
  7. ↑ Bergström, C. (2004). "Thelaira leucozona (Panzer) (Diptera, Tachinidae) new to Britain". Dipterists Digest. Second Series (Dipterists Forum) 11 (2): 171–172. 

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