Lydella Explained

Lydella is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae. Lydella thompsoni can be used in the UK for the biological control of the European corn borer.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Species

• Lydella acellaris Chao & Shi, 1982^[6]
• Lydella adiscalis Chao, 1982^[6]
• Lydella breviseria (Pandellé, 1896)^[7]
• Lydella columbina Richter, 1976^[8]
• Lydella deckeri (Curran, 1929)^[9]
• Lydella gannanensis Liu, Zhang & Xi, 2023^[10]
• Lydella grisescens Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
• Lydella jalisco Woodley, 1994^[11]
• Lydella lacustris Herting, 1959^[12]
• Lydella matutina Richter, 2003^[13]
• Lydella minense (Townsend, 1927)
• Lydella oryzae (Townsend, 1916)
• Lydella parasitica Mesnil, 1959^[14]
• Lydella radicis (Townsend, 1916)^[15]
• Lydella ripae (Brischke, 1885)^[16]
• Lydella scirpophagae (Chao & Shi, 1982)^[6]
• Lydella sesamiae (Mesnil, 1968)^[17]
• Lydella stabulans (Meigen, 1824)^[18]
• Lydella striatalis (Townsend, 1916)
• Lydella thompsoni Herting, 1959^[12]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lydella thompsoni. University of. Hertfordshire. sitem.herts.ac.uk.
2. O'Hara . James E. . Shima . Hiroshi . Zhang . Chuntian . 2009 . Annotated Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China . Zootaxa . 2190 . 1–236 . Auckland, New Zealand . Magnolia Press . 10.11646/zootaxa.2190.1.1 . 1175-5334 . 2011-02-24 . free .
3. Web site: O’Hara . James E. . Shannon . J. Henderson . D. Monty . Wood . World Checklist of the Tachinidae . Tachinidae Resources . 28 February 2022 . 5 March 2020.
4. Book: Chandler, Peter J. . 1998 . Checklists of Insects of the British Isles (New Series) Part 1: Diptera . . 12 . 1 . 1–234 . 0-901546-82-8 . . London .
5. Web site: Checklist Of The Tachinidae (Diptera) Of America North Of Mexico . O'Hara . James E. . Wood . D. Monty . 28 January 2004 . Biodiversidad de Nicaragua . Nicaragua . 1–42 .
6. Book: Chao . C.-m. . Shi . Y.-s. . Diptera: Tachinidae – Tachininae. Pp. 235–281. In: The Scientific Expedition Team of Chinese Academy of Sciences to the Qinghai– Xizang Plateau, ed., Insects of Xizang. Volume 2., . . 1982 . Science Press . Beijing . 1–508.
7. Pandellé . L. . Etudes sur les Muscides de France. II e partie [concl.] . Revue d'Entomologie . 1896 . 15 . 1–219, 221–230.
8. Richter . V.A. . Contribution to the fauna of tachinids (Diptera, Tachinidae) of the Mongolian People's Republic and southern Siberia . Nasekomye Mongolii [also as Insects of Mongolia] . 1975 . 3 . 628–654 . Russian.
9. Curran . C.H. . New Diptera in the American Museum of Natural History . American Museum Novitates . 1929 . 339 . 13 . 2246/3116 . 16 January 2022.
10. Liu . S.D. . Zhang . C.T. . Xi . X.Q. . Two new species of Eryciini (Diptera: Tachinidae) from the Eastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau . China Zoological Systematics . 2023 . 48 . 2 . 184–190.
11. Woodley . Norman E. . A new species of Lydella (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Mexico with a discussion of the definition of the genus . Bulletin of Entomological Research . 1994 . 84 . 131–136 . 10.1017/S0007485300032314 . 24 September 2023.
12. Herting . B. . Revision einiger europäischer Raupenfliegen (Dipt., Tachinidae) . Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien . 1959 . 63 . 423–429.
13. Richter . V.A. . On the fauna of tachinids (Diptera, Tachinidae) of the Russian Far East . Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie . 2003 . 82[2003] . 4 . 917–921.
14. Mesnil . L.P. . Une nouvelle forme de Lydella Robineau-Desvoidy parasite de la pyrale du mais en Océanie . Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique . 1959 . 95 . 38–39.
15. Townsend . C.H.T. . Andrina radicis Townsend, new name . Canadian Entomologist . 1916 . 48 . 19 . 24 September 2023.
16. Brischke . C.G.A. . Meine erzogegen parasitisch lebenden Fliegen . Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig . 1885 . 6 . 2 . 15–22 . 23 September 2023.
17. Mesnil . L.P. . Quelques espèces inedites de Tachinaires africians (Dipt. Tachinidae) . Stuttg. Beitr. Naturk . 1968 . 187 . 1–12.
18. Meigen. J. W.. Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten.. Vierter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann, Hamm.. 1824. xii + 428 pp. 9 May 2020.