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Entomophaga

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Entomophaga
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Subfamily: Tachininae
Tribe: Siphonini
Genus: Entomophaga
Lioy, 1864
Type species
Tachina exoleta
Meigen, 1824

Entomophaga is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] It was reviewed by T. Tachi and H. Shima in 2006 and was found to be paraphyletic; it was also found to form a monophyletic group with Proceromyia.[8]

Species

  • E. exoleta (Meigen, 1824)
  • E. nigrohalterata (Villeneuve, 1921)
  • E. sufferta (Villeneuve, 1942)[5]
  • E. ussuriensis Tachi & Shima, 2006[8]
  • E. vernalis Tachi & Shima, 2006[8]

References

  1. ^ "Fauna Europaea version 2.4". European Commission. 26 September 2012. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Belshaw, Robert (1993). "Tachinid Flies Diptera Tachinidae". Royal Entomological Society Handbooks. Royal Entomological Society of London. 10 (4ai): 170.
  4. ^ van Emden, F.I. (1954). "Ditera Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata (I) Section (a) Tachinidae & Calliphoridae". Royal Entomological Society Handbooks. Royal Entomological Society of London. 10 (4a): 133.
  5. ^ a b Andersen, Stig (1996). The Siphonini (Diptera: Tachinidae) of Europe. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica. 33. Leiden: Brill. pp. 1–148. ISBN 90-04-10731-2.
  6. ^ Soós, Á; Papp, L (1993). Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. 11 Anthomyiidae - Tachinidae. Budapest: Hung. Nat. Hist. Mus. pp. 1–624. ISBN 963-05-3910-1.
  7. ^ O'Hara, James E. (1989). "Systematics of the genus group taxa of the Siphonini (Diptera: Tachinidae)" (PDF). Quaestiones Entomologicae. 25: 1–229.
  8. ^ a b c Tachi, T.; Shima, H. (2006). "Review of Genera Entomophaga and Proceromyia (Diptera: Tachinidae)". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 99 (1): 41–57. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2006)099[0041:ROGEAP]2.0.CO;2.


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