Leschenaultia bicolor

Leschenaultia bicolor is a species of bristle fly in the family Tachinidae. It is found in North America and South America.[1][2][3][4] It is a parasitoid of Halysidota caterpillars, including Halysidota cinctipes and Halysidota pearsoni.[5]

Leschenaultia bicolor
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Tribe: Goniini
Genus: Leschenaultia
Species:
L. bicolor
Binomial name
Leschenaultia bicolor
(Macquart, 1846)
Synonyms[1]
  • Blepharipeza bicolor Macquart, 1846
  • Parachaeta fusca Townsend, 1916


References

  1. "Leschenaultia bicolor Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  2. "Leschenaultia bicolor". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  3. O'Hara, James E. "Taxonomic and host catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico". Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  4. Gudin, Filipe Macedo; Carneiro, Isabela Maciel Monteiro (December 2020). "An overview of hosts of the New World genus Leschenaultia (Diptera: Tachinidae), with a new record for L. bicolor in Halysidota pearsoni (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) in Brazil". The Canadian Entomologist. 152 (6): 734–761. doi:10.4039/tce.2020.46.

Further reading

  • O'Hara, James E.; Wood, D. Monty (2004). Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of America North of Mexico. Memoirs on Entomology, International. Vol. 18. International Associated Publishers. ISBN 978-1-56665-078-6. ISSN 1083-6284.
  • O'Hara, James E.; Stireman, John O. III. "Tachinidae Resources". Retrieved 2019-07-02.
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