Hubneria affinis is a species of bristle fly in the family Tachinidae.[3][4] It parasitizes moths such as Arctia caja by laying eggs in the larvae that eventually kill the host.

Hubneria affinis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Subfamily: Exoristinae
Tribe: Eryciini
Genus: Hubneria
Species:
H. affinis
Binomial name
Hubneria affinis
(Fallén, 1810)[1]
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Distribution

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China, British Isles, Belarus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, “Yugoslavia”, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Mongolia, Russia, Transcaucasia.

References

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  1. ^ a b Fallen, C.F. (1810). "Forsok att bestamma de i Sverige funne flugarter, som kunna foras till slagtet Tachina". K. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. 31 (2): 253–287.
  2. ^ Robineau-Desvoidy, André Jean Baptiste (1830). "Essai sur les myodaires". Mémoires presentés à l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, par divers savants et lus dans ses assemblées: Sciences, Mathématiques et Physique. 2 (2): 1–813. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Chandler, Peter J. (1998). Checklists of Insects of the British Isles (New Series) Part 1: Diptera. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. Vol. 12. London: Royal Entomological Society of London. pp. 1–234. ISBN 0-901546-82-8.