Zaira (fly)

Zaira
Scientific classification
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 cinereaFallén, 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 EubiomyaO’Hara & Wood, 2004 Epimeigenia Townsend, 1931 ThemathecaReinhard, 1961 NearchusReinhard, 1964 SynorbitaliaThompson, 1968 VivianoideaThompson, 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. 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. Meigen, Johann Wilhelm (1838). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten. Vol. 7. Hamm. pp. xii + 1–434. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
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. 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.
5. O'Hara, James E.; Wood, D. Monty (28 January 2004). "Checklist Of The Tachinidae (Diptera) Of America North Of Mexico" (PDF). Nicaragua: Biodiversidad de Nicaragua. pp. 1–42.
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. Wulp, F. M. van der (1890). "Family Muscidae". Biologia Centrali-Americana :zoology, Botany and Archaeology. 2: 186–204. 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.