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Species Stevenia deceptoria

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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 Rhinophoridae (Woodlouse Flies)
Genus Stevenia
Species deceptoria (Stevenia deceptoria)
Range
A European species known in North America from Hamilton County, Ohio and Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The first record is a BugGuide photograph from 2010. It was collected several times by Gregory Dahlem starting in 2013.
Food
parasitoids of terrestrial woodlice (sow bugs) of the order Isopoda (Oniscoidea)
Print References
O'Hara, James E. et al. 2015. First North American record of the Palaearctic rhinophorid Stevenia deceptoria (Loew) (Diptera: Rhinophoridae). Zootaxa 4058(2)