Thelaira nigripes explained

Thelaira nigripes is a species of fly in the family Tachinidae first described by Carl Fredrik Fallén in 1817.[1] [2] It parasitizes moths such as Arctia caja by laying eggs in the larvae that eventually kill the host.

Distribution

British Isles, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Channel Islands, France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Iran, Russia, Transcaucasia, China, Japan, Taiwan.

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 . 2 March 2024 . 5 March 2020.
  2. James E. O'Hara . Hiroshi Shima . Chuntian Zhang . amp . 2009 . Annotated catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China . . 2190 . 1–236 . 10.11646/zootaxa.2190.1.1 . free .