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Species Hemyda aurata

fly - Hemyda aurata - male Tachinid Fly - Hemyda aurata Diptera - Hemyda aurata Dark fly with a gold face - Hemyda aurata tachnid or thick headed fly? - Hemyda aurata Fly - Hemyda aurata black and yellow tachinid fly - Hemyda aurata Hemyda aurata? - Hemyda aurata
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 Phasiinae
Tribe Cylindromyiini
Genus Hemyda
Species aurata (Hemyda aurata)
Explanation of Names
Hemyda aurata Robineau-Desvoidy 1830
Range
much of NA (NH-BC to GA & CA)(1)
Food
host: Podisus maculiventris(1)