Adejeania vexatrix
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) | |
Synonyms | |
Dejeania vexatrix Osten Sacken, 1877 |
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]
References
- ↑ Arnaud, Paul Henri (1951). "Notes on the range extension of Adejeania vexatrix (Diptera: Tachinidae or Larvaevoridae) into Wyoming and British Columbia." (PDF Adobe Acrobat). Entomological News (American Entomological Society) 62 (6): 192. ISSN 0013-872X. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
- ↑ Bugguide.net, Hystricia abrupta
- ↑ Bugguide.net, Paradejeania rutilioides