Hamaxia incongrua

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Hamaxia incongrua
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Subfamily: Tachininae
Tribe: Palpostomatini
Genus: Hamaxia
Species:
H. incongrua
Binomial name
Hamaxia incongrua
Walker, 1860 [1]

Hamaxia incongrua is a species of tachinid flies in the genus Hamaxia of the family Tachinidae. [2] It is normally found in the Australasian biorealm, but may also be found in the Oriental and Palearctic realms. [2] [3] It is a parasite of numerous Scarabaeidae species, such as Popillia japonica . [3] [4]

Distribution

It can be found in China, Japan, Korean Peninsula, Russia, Indonesia, Sumatra, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

References

  1. Walker, F. (1860). "Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected in Amboyna by Mr. A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species". Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology. 5 (suppl.): 144–168. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  2. 1 2 O’Hara, James E.; Cerretti, Pierfilippo (2016-03-31). "Annotated catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta, Diptera) of the Afrotropical Region, with the description of seven new genera". ZooKeys (575): 1–344. Bibcode:2016ZooK..575....1O. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.575.6072 . ISSN   1313-2989. PMC   4829880 . PMID   27110184.
  3. 1 2 Gardner, Theodore Roosevelt; Parker, Lawrence Bemis (1940). Investigations of the parasites of Popillia japonica and related Scarabaeidae in the Far East from 1929 to 1933, inclusive. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.
  4. O’Hara, James E.; Shannon, J. Henderson; D. Monty, Wood (5 March 2020). "World Checklist of the Tachinidae" (PDF). Tachinidae Resources. Retrieved 28 February 2022.