Thelaira leucozona

Thelaira leucozona is a species of fly in the family Tachinidae first described by Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer in 1806.[1][2] It parasitizes moths such as Arctia caja by laying eggs in the larvae that eventually kill the host.

Thelaira leucozona
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Family:
Tachinidae
Subfamily:
Dexiinae
Tribe:
Voriini
Genus:
Thelaira
Species:
T. leucozona
Binomial name
Thelaira leucozona
(Panzer, 1806)
Synonyms

Distribution

Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Switzerland [3] and United Kingdom [4]

References
  1. 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.
  2. James E. O'Hara, Hiroshi Shima, & Chuntian Zhang. "Annotated Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China." Zootaxa 2190 (2009): 1-236.
  3. "Thelaira leucozona (Panzer 1809)". Fauna Europaea project. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
  4. Bergström, C. (2004). "Thelaira leucozona (Panzer) (Diptera, Tachinidae) new to Britain". Dipterists Digest. Second Series. Dipterists Forum. 11 (2): 171–172.


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