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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Oestroidea » Tachinidae » Tachininae » Tachinini » Epalpus » Epalpus signifer

Species Epalpus signifer

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Food · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Calyptratae)
Superfamily Oestroidea
Family Tachinidae
Subfamily Tachininae
Tribe Tachinini
Genus Epalpus
Species signifer (Epalpus signifer)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Tachina signifera Walker 1849
Range
United States and southern Canada
Food
Recorded hosts are species of Lithophane (Noctuidae)(1)
Works Cited
1.Tachinidae of America North of Mexico
Contributed by Joel Kits on 11 March, 2005 - 9:52pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Vox Sciurorum
Last updated 25 November, 2009 - 8:53pm

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