Actinodoria is a genus of tachinid flies in the family Tachinidae.[2][3][4] The only known tachinid parasitoid of a dragonfly is believed to belong to this genus, and was discovered as a larva living near the dragonfly's wing muscles.[5]

Actinodoria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Subfamily: Exoristinae
Tribe: Blondeliini
Genus: Actinodoria
Townsend, 1927[1]
Type species
Actinodoria cuprea

Species edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Townsend, C.H.T. (1927). "Synopse dos generos muscideos da região humida tropical da America, com generos e especies novas". Revista do Museu Paulista. 15: 203–385 + 4 pls. + [4 (errata).
  2. ^ O’Hara, James E.; Shannon, J. Henderson; D. Monty, Wood (5 March 2020). "World Checklist of the Tachinidae" (PDF). Tachinidae Resources. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  3. ^ Evenhuis, Neal L.; Pont, Adrian C.; Whitmore, Daniel (2015). "Nomenclatural Studies Toward a World List of Diptera Genus-Group Names. Part IV: Charles Henry Tyler Townsend" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3978 (1): 1–362. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3978.1.1.
  4. ^ nomen.at/Actinodoria
  5. ^ Stireman III, John O.; Cerretti, Pierfilippo; Wood, D. Monty; Von Ellenrieder, Natalia; Hauser, Martin; Kinnee, Scott; O'Hara, James E. (December 2015). "First record of a parasitoid tachinid fly (Diptera: Tachinidae) on a dragonfly (Odonata: Calopterygidae)". Studia dipterologica. ISSN 0945-3954. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  6. ^ Reinhard, H. J. (1974). "New genera and species of American Tachinidae (Diptera)". The Canadian Entomologist. 106 (11): 1155–1170. doi:10.4039/Ent1061155-11.
  7. ^ Thompson, W.R. (1964). "The tachinids of Trinidad. VI. The larviparous goniines of the carceliine type (Diptera, Tachinidae)". Studia Entomologica. 7: 97–151.
  8. ^ Wulp, F.M. van der (1890). "Fam. Muscidae [part]". Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Diptera. 2: 89–112.