Zaira (fly)
Genus of flies
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Zaira is a genus of parasitic flies in the family Tachinidae.[4][5][6] Larvae are parasitoids of adult beetles.[7]
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| Zaira |
Scientific classification  |
| Kingdom: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Arthropoda |
| Clade: |
Pancrustacea |
| Class: |
Insecta |
| Order: |
Diptera |
| Family: |
Tachinidae |
| Subfamily: |
Exoristinae |
| Tribe: |
Blondeliini |
| Genus: |
Zaira
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830[1] |
| Type species |
Zaira agrestis (= Tachina cinerea Fallén, 1810)
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| Synonyms |
- Fabricia Meigen, 1838[2]
- Sitophaga Gistel, 1848
- Biomya Rondani, 1856
- Viviania Rondani, 1861
- Viviana Rondani, 1861
- Phegea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863[3]
- Biomyia Schiner, 1868
- Pseudatractocera Townsend, 1892
- Eubiomyia Townsend, 1916
- Eubiomya O’Hara & Wood, 2004
- Epimeigenia Townsend, 1931
- Thematheca Reinhard, 1961
- Nearchus Reinhard, 1964
- Synorbitalia Thompson, 1968
- Vivianoidea Thompson, 1968
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- Zaira adscripta (Wulp, 1890)[8]
- Zaira angustifrons (Reinhard, 1930)
- Zaira argentina (Townsend, 1931)
- Zaira arrisor (Reinhard, 1959)
- Zaira aurigera (Coquillett, 1895)
- Zaira calosomae (Townsend, 1916)
- Zaira cinerea (Fallén, 1810)
- Zaira duplaris (Reinhard, 1964)
- Zaira eleodivora (Walton, 1918)
- Zaira flavipes (Thompson, 1968)
- Zaira georgiae (Brauer & von Bergenstamm, 1891)[9]
- Zaira grisea (Thompson, 1968)
- Zaira lateralis (Curran, 1925)
- Zaira leechi (Curran, 1932)
- Zaira medeola (Reinhard, 1961)
- Zaira mutabilis (Coquillett, 1904)
- Zaira neomexicana (Townsend, 1892)
- Zaira nocturnalis (Reinhard, 1930)
- Zaira nubecula (Wulp, 1890)[8]
- Zaira robusta (Wulp, 1890)[8]
- Zaira sordicolor (Townsend, 1891)
- Zaira sordida (Walker, 1853)[10]
- Zaira sublucens (Wulp, 1890)[8]
Robineau-Desvoidy, André Jean Baptiste (1830). "Essai sur les myodaires". Mémoires presentés à l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, par divers savants et lus dans ses assemblées: Sciences, Mathématiques et Physique. 2 (2): 1–813. Retrieved 15 July 2018. James E. O'Hara, Hiroshi Shima, & Chuntian Zhang. "Annotated Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China." Zootaxa 2190 (2009): 1-236.
Wood, D. M. (1985). "A Taxonomic Conspectus of the Blondeliini of North and Central America and the West Indies (Diptera: Tachinidae)". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada. 117 (S132): 3–130. doi:10.4039/entm117132fv. Wulp, F. M. van der (1890). "Family Muscidae". Biologia Centrali-Americana :zoology, Botany and Archaeology. 2: 186–204. Retrieved 20 February 2015. Brauer, F.; Bergenstamm, J. E. von (1891). "Die Zweiflugler des Kaiserlichen Museums zu Wien. V. Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Muscaria Schizometopa (exclusive Anthomyidae)". F. Tempsky, Wien: 142.
Walker, Frances (1853). Diptera. Part IV, pp. 253-474, pls. 7-8. In [Saunders, W. W. (ed.)], Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Sauders, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. Vol. 1. London: Van Voorst. pp. 1–474.
