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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Copecrypta ruficauda

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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 Tachinini
Genus Copecrypta
Species ruficauda (Copecrypta ruficauda)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Copecrypta ruficauda (van der Wulp, 1867)
Size
8-10 mm (guide images)
Identification
See comments on photos.
Range
across the US and adjacent Canada west to AB-AZ; Mexico(1)
Life Cycle
parasitoids of cutworm moths, Noctuinae (Noctuidae) (1) (2)
Print References
Marshall, photo 485.3 (2)
Internet References
Tachinidae of North America--Genus COPECRYPTA Townsend, 1908 (1)