| Thelaira nigripes | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Tachinidae |
| Subfamily: | Dexiinae |
| Tribe: | Voriini |
| Genus: | Thelaira |
| Species: | T. nigripes |
| Binomial name | |
| Thelaira nigripes | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
Thelaira nigripes is a species of fly in the family Tachinidae first described by Carl Fredrik Fallén in 1817.[3][4] It parasitizes moths such as Arctia caja by laying eggs in the larvae that eventually kill the host.
References
- 1 2 Fallén, C. F. (1817). "Beskrifning öfver de i Sverige funna fluge arter, som kunna föres till slägtet Musca. Första afdelningen". Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar. 4 [“1816”]: 226–254.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ James E. O'Hara; Hiroshi Shima & Chuntian Zhang (2009). "Annotated catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2190: 1–236. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2190.1.1.
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