Species Exaireta spinigera - Garden Soldier Fly

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited

Saw Fly or Wood Wasp maybe? - Exaireta spinigera

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)

Infraorder Stratiomyomorpha

Family Stratiomyidae (Soldier flies)

Subfamily Beridinae

Genus Exaireta

Species spinigera (Garden Soldier Fly)

Other Common Names

Blue Soldier Fly

Explanation of Names

Exaireta spinigera (Wiedemann 1830)

Size

~14 mm(1)

Range

native to Australia, introduced to NA (Pacific Coast); established in CA and BC(1)

Food

decaying organic matter(1)

Remarks

earliest NA record: CA 1985; not a pest(1)

Print References

Swann J.E., R.D. Kenner, R.A. Cannings, C.R. Copley (2006) Exaireta spinigera (Diptera: Stratiomyidae): the first published North American records of an Australian soldier fly. J. Entomol. Soc. Brit. Columbia 103: 71-72 (Full text)

Works Cited

1.	Aliens Among Us: British Columbia's Most Recent Arrivals

Contributed by Martin Hauser on 13 September, 2006 - 3:56pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 7 March, 2013 - 1:48pm

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