Thelaira leucozona
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Tachinidae |
| Subfamily: | Dexiinae |
| Tribe: | Voriini |
| Genus: | Thelaira |
| Species: | T. leucozona
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| Thelaira leucozona | |
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Thelaira leucozona is a species of fly in the family Tachinidae first described by Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer in 1806.[4][5][6] It parasitizes moths such as Arctia caja by laying eggs in the larvae that eventually kill the host.[5]
Distribution
[edit]Great Britain,[7] Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Bulgaria, Italy, Serbia, Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Russia, Transcaucasia, China.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Panzer, G.W.F. (1806). Favnae insectorvm germanicae initia oder Devtschlands Insecten. H. 103. Nurnberg [= Nuremberg]: Felsecker. pp. 24 pp., 24 pls.
- ^ Sherborn, C.D. (1922). Sectio Secunda. A kalendis Ianuariis, MDCCCI usque ad finem Decembris, MDCCCL. London: British Museum. pp. cxxxi + 7056.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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 25 February 2024.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ James E. O'Hara, Hiroshi Shima, & Chuntian Zhang. "Annotated Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China." Zootaxa 2190 (2009): 1-236.
- ^ Bergström, C. (2004). "Thelaira leucozona (Panzer) (Diptera, Tachinidae) new to Britain". Dipterists Digest. Second Series. 11 (2). Dipterists Forum: 171–172.
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