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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Gonia fuscicollis

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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 Goniini
Genus Gonia
Species fuscicollis (Gonia fuscicollis)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Gonia fuscicollis Tothill, 1924
Explanation of Names
"Brown neck"; other American species have white to pale yellow hair behind the head.
Range
Northern USA and southern Canada east of mountains
Food
Known hosts are two species of Noctuini