Tachina ferox

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Tachina ferox
Nowickia Ferox, dorsal view, Friston Forest.jpg
Tachinid fly, Tachina (Nowickia) ferox, dorsal view
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Tribe: Tachinini
Genus: Tachina
Subgenus: Nowickia
Species:
T. ferox
Binomial name
Tachina ferox
(Panzer, 1809)
Synonyms
  • Tachina feroxPanzer, 1809
  • Echinomyia nigricornisRobineau-Desvoidy, 1830
  • Fabriciella pandelleiBaranov, 1929

Tachina (Nowickia) ferox is a species of fly in the family Tachinidae first described by Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer in 1809. [1] [2] [3]

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Distribution and habitat

This species is present in most of Europe. [4] These flies mainly inhabit spruce forest edge, meadows, areas of heath and mountains at an elevation up to 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) above sea level. [5] [6]

Description

Side view Nowickia ferox, lateral view, Vert Wood.jpg
Side view

Tachina (Nowickia) ferox can reach a length of 11–15 millimetres (0.43–0.59 in). [5] These flies have a black hairy thorax and a yellow-red abdomen, with a black longitudinal marking in the middle and numerous long straight bristles at the end. Wings are hyaline (glass like), yellowish at the base. [7] Basal half of the palps are brown or blackish. Males are a little concave in theirs dorsal centre. In the abdomen only segments 7 and 8 are hairy. [6]

Biology

Tachina (Nowickia) ferox is a univoltine species. Adults can be found from mid-June to October, with a peak from June to August. They fed on nectar and pollen, especially of Centaurea jacea . [5] Larvae develop in the dark arches moth ( Apamea monoglypha ). [5] [6] [7]

References

  1. ↑ "BioLib.cz". Archived from the original on 2019-12-31. Retrieved 2018-02-24.
  2. ↑ 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 Archived 2024-04-29 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ 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. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 April 2023. Retrieved 14 June 2023.
  4. ↑ "Fauna Europaea". Archived from the original on 2023-06-25. Retrieved 2018-02-24.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Commanster". Archived from the original on 2020-12-30. Retrieved 2018-02-24.
  6. 1 2 3 Hans-Peter Tschorsnig and Benno Herting The Tachinids (Diptera: Tachinidae) of Central Europe: Identification Keys for the Species and Data on Distribution and Ecology. Archived 2021-06-20 at the Wayback Machine State Museum of Natural Science, Stuttgart
  7. 1 2 "Nature Spot". Archived from the original on 2018-02-10. Retrieved 2018-02-24.
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