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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Oestroidea » Parasitic Flies (Tachinidae) » Tachininae » Polideini » Hystricia » Hystricia abrupta

Species Hystricia abrupta

Classification · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Tachininae
Tribe Polideini
Genus Hystricia
Species abrupta (Hystricia abrupta)
Identification
Bristles scattered across the surface of the abdominal segments. In the strikingly similar Adejeania vexatrix, the bristles are concentrated in rings bordering the joints between the segments.
Range
across so. Canada to Mexico(1)
Habitat
temperate non-grassland habitats(1)
Food
hosts: Arctiidae(1)
Reported on Diacrisia virginica (Fabricius), Euchaetes egle (Drury), Halysidota caryae (Harris), Halysidota maculata (Harris), Halysidota tessellaris (J.E. Smith), Hyphantria cunea (Drury)
See Also
Adejeania vexatrix
Internet References
Tachinidae Resources
Works Cited
1.Taxonomic and host catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico
Contributed by Chen Young on 28 September, 2005 - 3:03pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Joshua Stuart Rose, Ben Coulter, v belov
Last updated 29 September, 2016 - 11:30pm

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