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Species Nemorilla pyste

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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 Exoristinae
Tribe Winthemiini
Genus Nemorilla
Species pyste (Nemorilla pyste)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Tachina pyste Walker, 1849
Old literature uses the name Nemorilla maculosa, a similar European species.
Range
Southern Canada to Mexico
Food
Parasitoid of many caterpillars, mostly Pyralidae and Tortricidae.