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Species Bessa harveyi

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 Exoristini

Genus Bessa

Species harveyi (Bessa harveyi)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Daeochaeta harveyi Townsend, 1892

Explanation of Names

Named for "F. L. Harvey", probably botanist Francis Leroy Harvey, who collected the type specimen.

Remarks

A parasitoid of sawflies, mostly Tenthredinidae, with a few records from Lepidoptera.

Contributed by John F. Carr on 14 September, 2016 - 6:49pm

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