Actinodoria

Actinodoria is a genus of tachinid flies in the family Tachinidae.[2] The only known tachinid parasitoid of a dragonfly is believed to belong to this genus, and was discovered as a larva living near the dragonfly's wing muscles.[3]

Actinodoria
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Actinodoria

Townsend, 1927
Type species
Actinodoria cuprea[1]
Townsend, 1927
Species

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Species

  1. Evenhuis, Neal L.; Pont, Adrian C.; Whitmore, Daniel (2015). "Nomenclatural Studies Toward a World List of Diptera Genus-Group Names. Part IV: Charles Henry Tyler Townsend" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3978 (1): 1–362. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3978.1.1.
  2. nomen.at/Actinodoria
  3. Stireman III, John O.; Cerretti, Pierfilippo; Wood, D. Monty; Von Ellenrieder, Natalia; Hauser, Martin; Kinnee, Scott; O'Hara, James E. (December 2015). "First record of a parasitoid tachinid fly (Diptera: Tachinidae) on a dragonfly (Odonata: Calopterygidae)". Studia dipterologica. ISSN 0945-3954. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  4. Reinhard, H. J. (1974). "New genera and species of American Tachinidae (Diptera)". The Canadian Entomologist. 106 (11): 1155–1170. doi:10.4039/Ent1061155-11.


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