Tachina

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Tachina
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Tachina praeceps
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Subfamily: Tachininae
Tribe: Tachinini
Genus: Tachina
Meigen, 1803
Type species
Musca grossa
Subgenera
Synonyms
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Tachina grossa
Tachina ursina Tachina ursina 3.JPG
Tachina ursina

Tachina is a genus of large flies in the family Tachinidae. There are approximately 600 species worldwide. Most have larvae that are parasitoids of lepidopteran caterpillars. [2] [3]

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Taxonomy

Nowickia Wachtl, 1894, treated by some authors as a subgenus of Tachina Meigen, 1803, following most authors is now accepted as a valid genus and treated separately.[ citation needed ]

Species

Species within this genus include: [4] [5]

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<i>Nowickia</i> Subgenus of flies

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Exorista is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.

<i>Nemorilla</i> Genus of flies

Nemorilla is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.

Drino is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.

<i>Panzeria</i> Genus of flies

Panzeria is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.

<i>Peleteria</i> Genus of flies

Peleteria is a widespread genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.

<i>Thelaira</i> Genus of flies

Thelaira is a genus of bristle flies in the family Tachinidae.

<i>Winthemia</i> Genus of flies

Winthemia is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.

<i>Linnaemya</i> Genus of flies

Linnaemya is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.

<i>Gonia</i> (fly) Genus of flies

Gonia is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eryciini</span> Tribe of flies

Eryciini is a tribe of flies in the family Tachinidae

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ernestiini</span> Tribe of flies

Ernestiini is a tribe of flies in the family Tachinidae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tachininae</span> Subfamily of flies

Tachininae is a subfamily of flies in the family Tachinidae.

<i>Cordilura</i> Genus of insects

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  2. ↑ Arnaud Jr, Paul H. (1978). A Host-Parasite Catalog of North American Tachinidae (Diptera). Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture. pp. 860 pp.
  3. ↑ O'Hara, James E.; Shima, Hiroshi; Zhang, Chuntian (2009). "Annotated Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China". Zootaxa. 2190 (1): 1–236. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2190.1.1 .
  4. ↑ Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D. Catalogue of life
  5. ↑ O’Hara, J.E. 2016. World genera of the Tachinidae (Diptera) and their regional occurrence. Version 9.0 PDF document, 93 pp. (accessed on 2018-01-24).
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