Dinera Explained

Dinera is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.^{[1] [2]} Most larvae are parasitoids of Coleoptera (Scarabaeidae).^{[3] [4]}

Species

• Dinera alticola Zhang & Shima, 2006^[5]
• Dinera angustifrons Zhang & Shima, 2006^[5]
• Dinera brevipalpis Zhang & Shima, 2006^[5]
• Dinera carinifrons (Fallén, 1817)^[6]
• Dinera chaoi Zhang & Shima, 2006^[5]
• Dinera femoralis (Emden, 1947)
• Dinera ferina (Fallén, 1817)^[6]
• Dinera fulvotestacea (Villeneuve, 1943)
• Dinera fuscata Zhang & Shima, 2006^[5]
• Dinera grisescens (Fallén, 1817)^[6]
• Dinera latigena (Emden, 1947)
• Dinera longirostris Villeneuve, 1936
• Dinera lugens (Wiedemann, 1830)^[7]
• Dinera maculosa Zhang & Shima, 2006^[5]
• Dinera meridionalis Zhang & Shima, 2006^[5]
• Dinera miranda (Mesnil, 1963)^[8]
• Dinera orientalis Zhang & Shima, 2006^[5]
• Dinera palliventris (Emden, 1947)
• Dinera setifacies Zhang & Shima, 2006^[5]
• Dinera sichuanensis Zhang & Shima, 2006^[5]
• Dinera similis Zhang & Shima, 2006^[5]
• Dinera spinosa (Walker, 1858)^[9]
• Dinera suffulva (Villeneuve, 1943)
• Dinera takanoi (Mesnil, 1957)^[10]
• Dinera xuei Zhang & Shima, 2006^[5]

Notes and References

1. Web site: O’Hara . James E. . Henderson . Shannon J. . D. Monty . Wood . Preliminary Checklist of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of the World. Tachinidae Resources . 18 December 2023 . 5 March 2020.
2. James E. O'Hara, Hiroshi Shima & Chuntian Zhang . 2009 . Annotated catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China . . 2190 . 1–236 . 10.11646/zootaxa.2190.1.1 .
3. Book: Paul H. Arnaud, Jr. . 1978 . A Host-Parasite Catalog of North American Tachinidae (Diptera). . Washington, D.C.. 860 pp.
4. Web site: Taxonomic and Host Catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico . North American Dipterists Society . US . 27 August 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110725132109/http://www.nadsdiptera.org/Tach/CatNAmer/Genera/Dinera.htm . 25 July 2011 .
5. Zhang . C.T. . Shima . H. . A systematic study of the genus Dinera Robineau-Desvoidy from the Palaearctic and Oriental regions (Diptera: Tachinidae) . Zootaxa . 2006 . 1243 . 1–60.
6. Fallén . C. F. . Beskrifning öfver de i Sverige funna fluge arter, som kunna föres till slägtet Musca. Första afdelningen. . Kungliga svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar . 1817 . 4 ["1816"] . 226–254.
7. Book: Wiedemann . Christian Rudolph Wilhelm . Aussereuropäische Zweiflügelige Insekten . 1830 . 2 . 21 April 2020.
8. Mesnil . L.P. . Nouveaux tachinaires de la Region Palearctique principalement de l'URSS et du Japon . Bulletin de l'Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique . 1963 . 39 . 23 . 1–56 . 3 July 2023.
9. Walker . F. . Characters of undescribed Diptera in the collection of W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., &c. [concl.]. ]. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London . New Series . 1858 . 4 . 190–235 . 21 November 2022.
10. Mesnil . L.P. . Nouveaux tachinaires d'Orient. (Deuxième série.) . Mémoires de la Société Royale d'Entomologie de Belgique . 1957 . 28 . 1–80.