Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
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Copecrypta ruficauda
Species
Copecrypta ruficauda
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
)
Works Cited
1.
Taxonomic and host catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico
2.
Insects: Their Natural History And Diversity: With a Photographic Guide to Insects of Eastern North America
Stephen A. Marshall. 2006. Firefly Books Ltd.
Contributed by
v belov
on 9 April, 2009 - 5:15pm
Additional contributions by
cotinis
Last updated 13 October, 2012 - 10:46am