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Species Nemorilla pyste

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.

Contributed by John F. Carr on 27 November, 2015 - 5:57pm

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