Subfamily Tachininae

Classification · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited

Chunky Tachinid with Cool Wings. Is it Archytas? - Archytas

Seriously Spiny Tachinid - Hystricia abrupta

Fly on Ranger Buttons or Swamp Whiteheads, Sphenosciadium capitellatum, Lassen National Park - Tachina

Is this a Tachinid-Peleteria? - Peleteria

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Calyptratae)

Superfamily Oestroidea

Family Tachinidae

Subfamily Tachininae

Remarks

Parasites of Lepidoptera.

Print References

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Works Cited

1.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico By Ross H. Arnett

Contributed by Chen Young on 4 November, 2005 - 9:23am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 19 September, 2006 - 8:54am

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