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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Oestroidea » Parasitic Flies (Tachinidae) » Tachininae » Leskiini

Tribe Leskiini

Classification · Numbers · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
Cool fly - Leskia long-tongued tachinid fly - Genea pavonacea Big Fly - Leskia depilis yellow fly - Genea texensis Clausicella - Clausicella turmalis small tan fly with bristles on abdomen Tachinid - Solieria flava Tachininae?
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 Leskiini
Numbers
34 spp. in 11 genera in our area(1)
Food
Where hosts are known larvae are parasitoids of Lepidoptera, often Pyralidae.
Remarks
Genera in area covered by BugGuide:
Aphria: Dark species, at least one with contrasting red abdominal markings.
Clausicella: Dark species with Atherigona-like head; resembling Siphonini
Crocinosoma: Mostly yellow species with very large antennae
Demoticus: Dark species; one undescribed species from northern Canada.
Drepanoglossa: Gray thorax, black-marked yellowish abdomen, longer proboscis than usual in the tribe
Genea: Yellow species with black spots on abdomen and with vein R1 hairy and hairs on R4+5 continuing to about r-m
Ginglymia
Leskia: Yellow species similar to Genea but with bare veins; antennae smaller and lower than Crocinosoma
Phantasiomyia: Antennae almost as large as Clausicella, but reddish; western.
Solieria: Similar to Leskia but some are darker or have discals on abdomen.
Stomatodexia: Long-legged, yellow abdomen with black marks, pale gray thorax, limited to Arizona in USA
Trochiloleskia
Works Cited
1.Taxonomic and host catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico
Contributed by v belov on 9 April, 2009 - 1:35pm
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum
Last updated 9 March, 2016 - 3:33am

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