| Adejeania vexatrix | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Tachinidae |
| Genus: | Adejeania |
| Species: | A. vexatrix |
| Binomial name | |
| Adejeania vexatrix (Osten Sacken, 1877) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Dejeania vexatrix Osten Sacken, 1877 |
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Adejeania vexatrix is a species of fly in the family Tachinidae. It is found in western North America from Mexico to Wyoming and British Columbia.[1] In addition to its bright orange abdomen and prominent, heavy black setae, this species is noted for its greatly elongated palpi, which stick straight forward from under the fly's head. A similar looking tachinid fly, Hystricia abrupta, is found in the eastern United States. It does not have the elongated mouthparts of A. vexatrix.[2] Paradejeania rutilioides also looks similar.[3]