Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar
Upcoming Events

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

National Moth Week was July 23-31, 2022! See moth submissions.

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2018 gathering in Virginia, July 27-29

Photos of insects and people from the 2015 gathering in Wisconsin, July 10-12


Previous events


TaxonomyBrowse
Info
ImagesLinksBooksData

Tribe Tachinini

Tachinid - Archytas Tachinid Fly (Juriniopsis adusta) - Juriniopsis adusta Fly - Epalpus signifer Gray-headed fly - Epalpus signifer Tachinid - Pararchytas A wonderful Fly, very cooperative. Epalpus signifer? - Epalpus rufipes - female Tachinid? - Peleteria Large black fly eastern Washington state
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
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
As used on BugGuide, includes genera formerly placed in tribe Dejeaniini.
Numbers
>120 spp. in 16 genera in our area (the missing genera Jurinella & Parepalpus are southwestern)(1)
Range
worldwide and throughout NA(1)