Biology:Zaira (fly)

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Zaira
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Subfamily: Exoristinae
Tribe: Blondeliini
Genus: Zaira
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830[1]
Type species
Zaira agrestis (= Tachina cinerea Fallén, 1810)
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830[1]
Synonyms
  • Fabricia Meigen, 1838[2]
  • Sitophaga Gistel, 1848
  • Biomya Rondani, 1856
  • Viviania Rondani, 1861
  • Viviana Rondani, 1861
  • Phegea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863[3]
  • Biomyia Schiner, 1868
  • Pseudatractocera Townsend, 1892
  • Eubiomyia Townsend, 1916
  • Eubiomya O’Hara & Wood, 2004
  • Epimeigenia Townsend, 1931
  • Thematheca Reinhard, 1961
  • Nearchus Reinhard, 1964
  • Synorbitalia Thompson, 1968
  • Vivianoidea Thompson, 1968

Zaira is a genus of parasitic flies in the family Tachinidae.[4][5][6] Larvae are parasitoids of adult beetles.[7]

Species

  • Zaira adscripta (Wulp, 1890)[8]
  • Zaira angustifrons (Reinhard, 1930)
  • Zaira argentina (Townsend, 1931)
  • Zaira arrisor (Reinhard, 1959)
  • Zaira aurigera (Coquillett, 1895)
  • Zaira calosomae (Townsend, 1916)
  • Zaira cinerea (Fallén, 1810)
  • Zaira duplaris (Reinhard, 1964)
  • Zaira eleodivora (Walton, 1918)
  • Zaira flavipes (Thompson, 1968)
  • Zaira georgiae (Brauer & von Bergenstamm, 1891)[9]
  • Zaira grisea (Thompson, 1968)
  • Zaira lateralis (Curran, 1925)
  • Zaira leechi (Curran, 1932)
  • Zaira medeola (Reinhard, 1961)
  • Zaira mutabilis (Coquillett, 1904)
  • Zaira neomexicana (Townsend, 1892)
  • Zaira nocturnalis (Reinhard, 1930)
  • Zaira nubecula (Wulp, 1890)[8]
  • Zaira robusta (Wulp, 1890)[8]
  • Zaira sordicolor (Townsend, 1891)
  • Zaira sordida (Walker, 1853)[10]
  • Zaira sublucens (Wulp, 1890)[8]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Robineau-Desvoidy, André Jean Baptiste (1830). "Essai sur les myodaires". Mémoires presentés à l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, par divers savants et lus dans ses assemblées: Sciences, Mathématiques et Physique 2 (2): 1–813. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3472165#page/9/mode/1up. Retrieved 15 July 2018. 
  2. Meigen, Johann Wilhelm (1838). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten. 7. Hamm. pp. xii + 1–434. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/46124#page/7/mode/1up. Retrieved 28 June 2021. 
  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. 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. 
  5. O'Hara, James E.; Wood, D. Monty (28 January 2004). "Checklist Of The Tachinidae (Diptera) Of America North Of Mexico". Nicaragua: Biodiversidad de Nicaragua. pp. 1–42. http://www.bio-nica.info/biblioteca/OHara2004Tachinidae.pdf. 
  6. James E. O'Hara, Hiroshi Shima, & Chuntian Zhang. "Annotated Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China." Zootaxa 2190 (2009): 1-236.
  7. Wood, D. M. (1985). "A Taxonomic Conspectus of the Blondeliini of North and Central America and the West Indies (Diptera: Tachinidae)". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 117 (S132): 3–130. doi:10.4039/entm117132fv. 
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Wulp, F. M. van der (1890). "Family Muscidae". Biologia Centrali-Americana :zoology, Botany and Archaeology 2: 186–204. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/14628#page/197/mode/1up. Retrieved 20 February 2015. 
  9. Brauer, F.; Bergenstamm, J. E. von (1891). "Die Zweiflugler des Kaiserlichen Museums zu Wien. V. Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Muscaria Schizometopa (exclusive Anthomyidae)". F. Tempsky, Wien: 142. 
  10. Walker, Frances (1853). Diptera. Part IV, pp. 253-474, pls. 7-8. In [Saunders, W. W. (ed.)], Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Sauders, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. Vol. 1. London: Van Voorst. pp. 1–474. 

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