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Thelaira leucozona

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Species of fly

Thelaira leucozona
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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
(Meigen & Panzer, 1806)
Synonyms

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

Distribution

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

References

  1. ^ Panzer, G.W.F. (1806). Favnae insectorvm germanicae initia oder Devtschlands Insecten. H. 103. Nurnberg : 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 (PDF). Vol. Tome second. Masson et Fils, Paris. pp. 1–920. 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" (PDF). Tachinidae Resources. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
  5. ^ Chandler, Peter J. (1998). Checklists of Insects of the British Isles (New Series) Part 1: Diptera. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. Vol. 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. 11 (2). Dipterists Forum: 171–172.
Taxon identifiers
Thelaira leucozona


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