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Species Loewia foeda

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 Tachininae

Tribe Ernestiini

Genus Loewia

Species foeda (Loewia foeda)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Tachina foeda Meigen, 1824

Explanation of Names

Apparently from Latin foedus, which can mean ugly.

Remarks

Native to Europe, first found in North America on Long Island in 1958. Parasitoid of Lithobius centipedes; one of the very few Tachinidae not to parasitize insects.

Print References

Wood, D. M. and A. G Wheeler, Jr. 1972. First record in North America of the centipede parasite Loewia foeda (Diptera: Tachinidae). Canadian Entomologist 104:1363-1367.

Contributed by John F. Carr on 29 December, 2017 - 7:46pm

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