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Species Cylindromyia intermedia

Cylindromyia sp. - Cylindromyia intermedia - female

Tachinid fly with (mostly) red abdomen - Cylindromyia intermedia

Cylindromyia Tachinid Fly - Cylindromyia intermedia - male

Perhaps Cylindromyia? - Cylindromyia intermedia - male

A 'classic' Cylindromyia pose - Cylindromyia intermedia - male

fly on buckwheat - Cylindromyia intermedia

Tachinid fly - Cylindromyia intermedia - male

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 Phasiinae

Tribe Cylindromyiini

Genus Cylindromyia

Species intermedia (Cylindromyia intermedia)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Ocyptera intermedia Meigen, 1824

Ocyptera californica Bigot, 1878

Range

Holarctic including most of North America

Food

Parasitoid of stink bugs.

Remarks

On average the reddest North American Cylindromyia. Color-based ID should be confirmed by other characters; C. nana is also very red.

Contributed by John F. Carr on 22 April, 2016 - 6:56pm
Last updated 23 April, 2016 - 7:53am

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