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

Tribe Minthoini

Classification · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Tachinidae Fly: 2012.04.18.19648 - Paradidyma melania - male fly - Paradidyma singularis - male Unid. Tachinid (?) - Paradidyma singularis - male Paradidyma singularis NJ September - Paradidyma singularis - female Paradidyma singularis? - Paradidyma singularis Paradiddy - Paradidyma singularis Paradidyma singularis? - Paradidyma singularis
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)
Range
in our area, more diverse in w./sw. US, with a few transcontinental spp.(1)
Remarks
The three common species (but not all others) have a pair of strongly contrasting dark stripes on the thorax. Paradidyma has a strong row of parafacial bristles. Vanderwulpia does not.
Works Cited
1.Taxonomic and host catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico
Contributed by v belov on 14 April, 2009 - 10:02am
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum
Last updated 31 January, 2015 - 7:03am

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