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Tribe Minthoini

Tachinid Fly - Paradidyma singularis Tachinid - Vanderwulpia sequens Vanderwulpia atrophopodoides Calyptrate - Paradidyma - female Paradidyma singularis? - Paradidyma singularis - female Paradidyma? - Paradidyma Long Leged Fly. ? - Paradidyma - female Female, Paradidyma bicincta? - Paradidyma bicincta
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 Minthoini
Numbers
18 spp. in 2 genera in our area(1)
Identification
Scutellum with three pairs of bristles, the lateral pair long and divergent and the apical pair crossed. Only two, widely spaced postsutural intraalar bristles (compared to the usual three). Often with two strongly contrasting black stripes on the thorax. Female usually with claws of fore leg reduced and apical tarsomeres modified.
Range
in our area, more diverse in w./sw. US, with a few transcontinental spp.(1)
Remarks
Paradidyma has a strong row of parafacial bristles. Vanderwulpia does not.