Biology:Thelaira nigripes

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Short description: Species of fly

Thelaira nigripes
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Subfamily: Dexiinae
Tribe: Voriini
Genus: Thelaira
Species:
T. nigripes
Binomial name
Thelaira nigripes
(Fallén, 1817)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Dexia albifrons Stephens, 1829
  • Musca nigrina Fallén, 1817[1]
  • Musca nigripes Fabricius, 1794
  • Thelaira albifrons (Stephens, 1829)
  • Thelaira nigripes (Fabricius, 1794)
  • Admontia cepelaki (Mesnil, 1961)

Thelaira nigripes is a species of fly in the family Tachinidae first described by Carl Fredrik Fallén in 1817.[3][4] It parasitizes moths such as Arctia caja by laying eggs in the larvae that eventually kill the host.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Fallén, C. F. (1817). "Beskrifning öfver de i Sverige funna fluge arter, som kunna föres till slägtet Musca. Första afdelningen.". Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar 4 [“1816”]: 226–254. 
  2. 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 (2009). "Annotated catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China". Zootaxa 2190: 1–236. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2190.1.1. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/zt02190p236.pdf. 

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