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

Species Estheria cinerea

Tachinidae Fly - Estheria cinerea Tachinidae Fly - Estheria cinerea - female
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 Dexiinae
Tribe Dexiini
Genus Estheria
Species cinerea (Estheria cinerea)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Hesperodinera cinerea Townsend, 1919
Explanation of Names
Named for the color, "blackish, thickly yellowish-cinereous pollinose."
Range
Western USA and southern Canada