Thelaira leucozona
Thelaira leucozona is a species of fly in the family Tachinidae first described by Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer in 1806.[1][2] It parasitizes moths such as Arctia caja by laying eggs in the larvae that eventually kill the host.
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Distribution
Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Switzerland [3] and United Kingdom [4]
References
- Chandler, Peter J. (1998). Checklists of Insects of the British Isles (New Series) Part 1: Diptera. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. New Series. 12. London: Royal Entomological Society of London. pp. 1–234. ISBN 0-901546-82-8.
- James E. O'Hara, Hiroshi Shima, & Chuntian Zhang. "Annotated Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China." Zootaxa 2190 (2009): 1-236.
- "Thelaira leucozona (Panzer 1809)". Fauna Europaea project. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
- Bergström, C. (2004). "Thelaira leucozona (Panzer) (Diptera, Tachinidae) new to Britain". Dipterists Digest. Second Series. Dipterists Forum. 11 (2): 171–172.
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