Thelaira nigripes

Thelaira nigripes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Tachinidae
Genus:	Thelaira
Species:	T. nigripes
Binomial name
	Thelaira nigripes; (Fallén, 1817)[1]
Synonyms[2]
	Dexia albifrons Stephens, 1829; Musca nigrina Fallén, 1817[1]; Musca nigripes Fabricius, 1794; Thelaira albifrons (Stephens, 1829); Thelaira nigripes (Fabricius, 1794); Admontia cepelaki (Mesnil, 1961);

Thelaira nigripes is a species of fly in the family Tachinidae first described by Carl Fredrik Fallén in 1817.[2][3] It parasitizes moths such as Arctia caja by laying eggs in the larvae that eventually kill the host.

References

Fallén, C. F. (1817). "Beskrifning öfver de i Sverige funna fluge arter, som kunna föres till slägtet Musca. Första afdelningen". Kungliga svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar. 4 [“1816”]: 226–254.
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.
James E. O'Hara, Hiroshi Shima, & Chuntian Zhang. "Annotated Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China." Zootaxa 2190 (2009): 1-236.

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