Subfamily Phasiinae

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Works Cited

Feather-legged fly - Trichopoda pennipes

Small muscoid fly on aster - Gymnoclytia - female

Tachinidae, lateral - Gymnoclytia - 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 Phasiinae

Explanation of Names

Phasiinae Robineau-Desvoidy 1830

Numbers

~80 spp. in 15 genera of 6 tribes in our area(1), ~700 spp. in ~200 genera of 11 tribes total(2)

Range

most of NA(1)

Food

parasites of Heteroptera(1)

Life Cycle

Oviparous

Print References

Blaschke J.D., O'Hara J.E., Moulton J.K. (2019) Biodiversity survey and molecular identification of the Phasiinae (Diptera: Tachinidae) of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 121: 1‒14.

Works Cited

1.	Taxonomic and host catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico

2.	Preliminary checklist of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of the world. Version 2 O’Hara J.E., Henderson S.J., Wood D.M. 2020. 1039 pp.

Contributed by tom murray on 22 May, 2005 - 2:22pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, kschnei, v belov, Arturo Santos
Last updated 12 October, 2024 - 11:03pm

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