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Subfamily Dexiinae

Tachinid Fly - Ptilodexia Fly - Thelaira americana Teaching with Black and Rufous patches odd looking tachinid - Cordyligaster septentrionalis Male, Zelia gracilis? - Zelia - male Exoristinae? - Microchaetina Genus request - Ptilodexia - male Uramya indita? - Uramya indita
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Calyptratae)
Superfamily Oestroidea
Family Tachinidae (Parasitic Flies)
Subfamily Dexiinae
Numbers
ca. 240 spp. in 75 genera of 13 tribes in our area(1)
Life Cycle
Nearly all members of this subfamily are said to be parasitic on Coleoptera or Lepidoptera larvae