Thelaira nigripes

Thelaira nigripes is a species of fly in the family Tachinidae first described by Carl Fredrik Fallén in 1817.[6][7] It parasitizes moths such as Arctia caja by laying eggs in the larvae that eventually kill the host.

Thelaira nigripes
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
(Fallén, 1817)[1]
Synonyms[2]

Distribution

British Isles, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Channel Islands, France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Iran, Russia, Transcaucasia, China, Japan, Taiwan.

References
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Stephens, J.F. (1829). A systematic catalogue of British insects ... Part II. Insecta Haustellata. London: Baldwin & Cradock. pp. 388 pp.
  4. Fabricius, J.C. (1794). Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Vol. 4. Hafniae [=Copenhagen]: C. G. Proft. pp. [6] + 472 + [5] pp.
  5. Mesnil, L.P. (1961). "64g. Larvaevorinae (Tachininae)". Die Fliegen der Palaearktischen Region. 10 (Lieferung 219): 657–704.
  6. 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. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
  7. 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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