Genus Vanderwulpia

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Internet References · Works Cited

Small fly waving its wings - Vanderwulpia sequens

Vanderwulpia atrophopodoides ? - Vanderwulpia atrophopodoides - male

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

Genus Vanderwulpia

Explanation of Names

Vanderwulpia Townsend 1891

named after dipterist Frederik Maurits van der Wulp (1818-1899)

Numbers

2 spp. in our area(1)

Range

New World(2); in our area, MO-AL-CA(1) (BG image is from VA)

Internet References

Genus page(1)

Works Cited

1.	Taxonomic and host catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico

2.	O’Hara J.E., Henderson S.J. (2020) World genera of the Tachinidae (Diptera) and their regional occurrence. Version 11.0

Contributed by v belov on 21 December, 2010 - 9:55am
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum
Last updated 23 February, 2015 - 6:18pm

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