Zaira (fly)

Zaira is a genus of parasitic flies in the family Tachinidae.[3] Larvae are parasitoids of adult beetles.[4]

Zaira
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Tachinidae
Subfamily:	Exoristinae
Tribe:	Blondeliini
Genus:	Zaira Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
Type species
Zaira agrestis (= Tachina cinerea Fallén, 1810) Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
Synonyms[1][2]
Biomya Róndani, 1856 Epimeigenia Townsend, 1931 Sitophaga Gistel, 1848 Synorbitalia Thompson, 1968 Thematheca Reinhard, 1961 Viviania Róndani, 1861 Vivianoidea Thompson, 1968

Species

• Z. adscripta (Wulp, 1890)[5]
• Z. angustifrons (Reinhard, 1930)[2]
• Z. arrisor (Reinhard, 1959)[2]
• Z. aurigera (Coquillett, 1895)[2]
• Z. calosomae (Townsend, 1916)[2]
• Z. cinerea (Fallén, 1810)[1]
• Z. duplaris (Reinhard, 1964)[2]
• Z. eleodivora (Walton, 1918)[2]
• Z. flavipes (Thompson, 1968)
• Z. georgiae (Brauer & von Bergenstamm, 1891)[2]
• Z. grisea (Thompson, 1968)
• Z. lateralis (Curran, 1925)[2]
• Z. leechi (Curran, 1932)[2]
• Z. medeola (Reinhard, 1961)[2]
• Z. mutabilis (Coquillett, 1904)[2]
• Z. neomexicana (Townsend, 1892)[2]
• Z. nocturnalis (Reinhard, 1930)[2]
• Z. nubecula (Wulp, 1890)[5]
• Z. robusta (Wulp, 1890)[5]
• Z. sordicolor (Townsend, 1891)[2]
• Z. sordida (Walker, 1891)
• Z. sublucens (Wulp, 1890)[5]

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. O'Hara, James E.; Wood, D. Monty (28 January 2004). "Checklist Of The Tachinidae (Diptera) Of America North Of Mexico" (PDF). Nicaragua: Biodiversidad de Nicaragua. pp. 1–42.
3. James E. O'Hara, Hiroshi Shima, & Chuntian Zhang. "Annotated Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China." Zootaxa 2190 (2009): 1-236.
4. 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). doi:10.4039/entm117132fv.
5. Wulp, F. M. van der (1890). "Family Muscidae". Biologia Centrali-Americana :zoology, botany and archaeology: 186–204. Retrieved 7 March 2015.