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Species Gonia frontosa

Gonia frontosa tachinid fly - Gonia frontosa - male tachinid fly - Gonia frontosa - male tachinid fly - Gonia frontosa - 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 Exoristinae
Tribe Goniini
Genus Gonia
Species frontosa (Gonia frontosa)
Range
much of North America (QC-AK to NC-CA)(1)
Season
common in early spring
Food
recorded hosts include Tetraonyx quadrimaculata (Coleoptera, Meloidae) and Crymodes devastator (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)(1)