Species Paradejeania rutilioides - Spiny Tachina Fly

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Food · Print References

Tachinidae fly - Paradejeania rutilioides

Tachinidae species? - Paradejeania rutilioides

Mesa Verde Bee/Fly - Paradejeania rutilioides

Tachnid fly ? - Paradejeania rutilioides

Spiny Tachina fly - Paradejeania rutilioides

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 Paradejeania (Spiny Tachina Fly)

Species rutilioides (Spiny Tachina Fly)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Paradejeania rutiloides

Dejeania rutilioides

Explanation of Names

Rutilia- a genus of Tachinids + oides- "looking like, resembling"

Food

Adults take nectar, especially from late blooming Asteraceae.

Larval host: the arctiid moth Hemihyalea edwardsii (at least in part of its range; see Hsu & Powell reference below)

Print References

Hsu, Y.-F. and J. A. Powell. 1992. Hemihyalea edwardsii (Packard) (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) is the host of Paradejeania rutilioides (Jaennicke) (Diptera: Tachinidae) in central coastal California. Pan-Pacific Entomol.68(1):64-65.

Contributed by Chen Young on 29 September, 2005 - 2:14pm
Additional contributions by Hartmut Wisch, Chuck Entz, kschnei
Last updated 8 April, 2009 - 12:41pm

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