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Tachinidae Genera
The Tachinidae are a large and variable family of true flies within the insect order Diptera, with more than 8,200 known species and many more to be discovered. Over 1,300 species have been described in North America alone. Insects in this family commonly are called tachinid flies or simply tachinids. As far as is known, they all are protelean parasitoids, or occasionally parasites, of arthropods, usually other insects. The family is known from many habitats in all zoogeographical regions and is especially diverse in South America. Taxonomy Just like that of all Diptera, the taxonomy of Tachinidae is complex. The name Tachinidae was first validly proposed by Robineau-Desvoidy in 1830, but in the form "Tachinariae." Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 thus has priority despite the name correction, and this applies to Tachinidae (for the family) and to Tachininae (for the subfamily), in accordance with the ICZN rules on the formation of group names (Article 36.1). The valid full name (w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tachina Fera
''Tachina fera'' is a species of fly in the genus ''Tachina'' of the family Tachinidae. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1761. Distribution This species can be found in the entire Palearctic realm, across Europe as far north as Scandinavia and European Russia. It is also present in Israel and North Asia, east to China, Mongolia, Korea, and Japan, and in North Africa. Habitat These flies inhabit the vegetation of humid regions, meadows, woodland, forests, forest edges, clearings, heath and moorland and natural gardens. Description ''Tachina fera'' can reach a length of , with a wingspan of 16–27 mm. These tachinids show a grayish upperside of the thorax, due to dense pollinosity, with regular black stripes. The abdomen is yellow orange with a wide black dorsal stripe ending in a point. They are bristly on the thorax and abdomen, especially towards the tip, where they have long thorn-shaped, protruding black bristles. Close to the thorax there is a striking, ora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parasitism
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives (at least some of the time) on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson characterised parasites' way of feeding as "predators that eat prey in units of less than one". Parasites include single-celled protozoans such as the agents of malaria, sleeping sickness, and amoebic dysentery; animals such as hookworms, lice, mosquitoes, and vampire bats; fungi such as honey fungus and the agents of ringworm; and plants such as mistletoe, dodder, and the broomrapes. There are six major parasitic strategies of exploitation of animal hosts, namely parasitic castration, directly transmitted parasitism (by contact), trophicallytransmitted parasitism (by being eaten), vector-transmitted parasitism, parasitoidism, and micropredation. One major axis of classification concerns invasiveness: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnosoma
''Gymnosoma'' is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae. The name ''"Gymnosoma"'' literally translates as "naked body", and presumably refers to the fact that some species in the genus are less conspicuously bristly than most species of flies in the family Tachinidae. Species *'' Gymnosoma acrosterni'' Kugler, 1971 *'' Gymnosoma amplifrons'' (Brooks, 1946) *'' Gymnosoma brachypeltae'' Dupuis, 1961 *'' Gymnosoma brevicorne'' Villeneuve, 1929 *'' Gymnosoma canadense'' (Brooks, 1946) *'' Gymnosoma carpocoridis'' Dupuis, 1961 *'' Gymnosoma clavatum'' ( Rohdendorf, 1947) *'' Gymnosoma costatum'' (Panzer, 1800) *'' Gymnosoma desertorum'' ( Rohdendorf, 1947) *'' Gymnosoma dolycoridis'' Dupuis, 1961 *'' Gymnosoma emdeni'' (Mesnil, 1950) *'' Gymnosoma filiola'' Loew, 1872 *'' Gymnosoma fuliginosa'' Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 *'' Gymnosoma fuscohalteratum'' Emden, 1945 *'' Gymnosoma hamiense'' Dupuis, 1966 *'' Gymnosoma hemisphaericum'' (Geoffroy, 1785) *'' Gymnosoma indicum'' Walker, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tachinid Eggs On Leptoglossus
The Tachinidae are a large and variable family of true flies within the insect order Diptera, with more than 8,200 known species and many more to be discovered. Over 1,300 species have been described in North America alone. Insects in this family commonly are called tachinid flies or simply tachinids. As far as is known, they all are protelean parasitoids, or occasionally parasites, of arthropods, usually other insects. The family is known from many habitats in all zoogeographical regions and is especially diverse in South America. Taxonomy Just like that of all Diptera, the taxonomy of Tachinidae is complex. The name Tachinidae was first validly proposed by Robineau-Desvoidy in 1830, but in the form "Tachinariae." Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 thus has priority despite the name correction, and this applies to Tachinidae (for the family) and to Tachininae (for the subfamily), in accordance with the ICZN rules on the formation of group names (Article 36.1). The valid full name (w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
