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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Oestroidea » Parasitic Flies (Tachinidae) » Tachininae » Tachinini » Paradejeania » Spiny Tachina Fly (Paradejeania rutilioides) » Paradejeania rutilioides nigrescens

Subspecies Paradejeania rutilioides nigrescens

Classification · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Print References
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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 Tachinini
Genus Paradejeania
Species rutilioides (Spiny Tachina Fly)
Subspecies nigrescens (Paradejeania rutilioides nigrescens)
Size
Length: Male 14 to 16 mm; Female 13.5 to 16.5 mm.
Identification
Subspecies nigrescens is "characterized by having the fifth abdominal tergite black and tergites two to four with a median black vitta about one-sixth of the abdominal width." (Arnaud, 1951)
Range
From San Diego County, California north through Oregon to British Columbia.
Food
In coastal adjacent CA, adults often seen late in season (Fall) nectaring on Coyote Brush (Baccharis pilularis).
Remarks
For more info, see species Info page

Holotype: Male, from Skyline Blvd, near Skylonda, San Mateo County, CA, October 21, 1948 (P. H. Arnaud). Collected from blossoms of Baccharis pilularis.
Allotype: Female, from Los Gatos, Santa Clara County, CA, on November 26, 1948 (John Lloyd). Collected from blossoms of Baccharis pilularis.
Print References
Arnaud, Paul H. (1951), "A Study of the Genus Paradejeania Brauer and Bergenstamm (Diptera: Tachinidae or Larvaevoridae)". The Canadian Entomologist, 1951, 83:(12) 317-329.
Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 13 December, 2011 - 2:37pm
Last updated 13 December, 2011 - 9:43pm

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