Plesina Explained

Plesina is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.^[1]

Species

• Plesina africana Kugler, 1978^[2]
• Plesina asiatica Richter, 1988^[3]
• Plesina claripennis Mesnil, 1953^[4]
• Plesina deserticola Kugler, 1978^[2]
• Plesina fascipennis (Wiedemann, 1830)^[5]
• Plesina nepalensis Kugler, 1982^[6]
• Plesina nigroscutellata Cerretti & Tschorsnig, 2008^[7]
• Plesina phalerata (Meigen, 1824)
• Plesina zimini Richter, 1991^[8]

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 . 1 July 2023 . 5 March 2020.
2. Kugler . J. . A revision of the tachinid fly genus Plesina (Diptera, Tachinidae) . Entomologica Germanica . 1978 . 4 . 84–96.
3. Richter . V.A. . New Palearctic genera and species of tachinids (Diptera, Tachinidae) . Systematika Nasekomikh I Kleshchei . 1988 . 70 . 202–212 . Russian.
4. Mesnil . L.P. . Nouveaux tachinaires d'Orient. (2e partie.) . Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique . 1953 . 89 . 146–178.
5. Book: Wiedemann . Christian Rudolph Wilhelm . Aussereuropäische Zweiflügelige Insekten . 1830 . 2 . 21 April 2020.
6. Kugler . J. . Plesina nepalensis (Diptera: Tachinidae), a new species from Nepal . Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington . 1982 . 10 . 93–96.
7. Cerretti . Pierfilippo . Tschorsnig . H.-P. . A new species of Plesnia Meigen (Diptera: Tachinidae) from the Mediterranean . Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde (A) . 2008 . 1 . 445–450 . 4 August 2023.
8. Richter . V.A. . A new tribe, new and little known species of the tachinid flies (Diptera, Tachinidae) of the fauna of the USSR . Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie . 1991 . 70 . 229–246 . Russian.