Zaira is a genus of parasitic flies in the family Tachinidae.[4][5][6] Larvae are parasitoids of adult beetles.[7]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Tachinidae |
| Subfamily: | Exoristinae |
| Tribe: | Blondeliini |
| Genus: | Zaira Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830[1] |
| Type species | |
| Zaira agrestis (= Tachina cinerea Fallén, 1810) Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830[1]
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Species edit
- Zaira adscripta (Wulp, 1890)[8]
- Zaira angustifrons (Reinhard, 1930)
- Zaira argentina (Townsend, 1931)
- Zaira arrisor (Reinhard, 1959)
- Zaira aurigera (Coquillett, 1895)
- Zaira calosomae (Townsend, 1916)
- Zaira cinerea (Fallén, 1810)
- Zaira duplaris (Reinhard, 1964)
- Zaira eleodivora (Walton, 1918)
- Zaira flavipes (Thompson, 1968)
- Zaira georgiae (Brauer & von Bergenstamm, 1891)[9]
- Zaira grisea (Thompson, 1968)
- Zaira lateralis (Curran, 1925)
- Zaira leechi (Curran, 1932)
- Zaira medeola (Reinhard, 1961)
- Zaira mutabilis (Coquillett, 1904)
- Zaira neomexicana (Townsend, 1892)
- Zaira nocturnalis (Reinhard, 1930)
- Zaira nubecula (Wulp, 1890)[8]
- Zaira robusta (Wulp, 1890)[8]
- Zaira sordicolor (Townsend, 1891)
- Zaira sordida (Walker, 1853)[10]
- Zaira sublucens (Wulp, 1890)[8]
References edit
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Meigen, Johann Wilhelm (1838). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten. Vol. 7. Hamm. pp. xii + 1–434. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
- ^ Robineau-Desvoidy, Jean-Baptiste (1863). Histoire naturelle des dipteres des environs de Paris (PDF). Vol. Tome second. Masson et Fils, Paris. pp. 1–920. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
- ^ 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.
- ^ O'Hara, James E.; Wood, D. Monty (28 January 2004). "Checklist Of The Tachinidae (Diptera) Of America North Of Mexico" (PDF). Nicaragua: Biodiversidad de Nicaragua. pp. 1–42.
- ^ James E. O'Hara, Hiroshi Shima, & Chuntian Zhang. "Annotated Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China." Zootaxa 2190 (2009): 1-236.
- ^ Wood, D. M. (1985). "A Taxonomic Conspectus of the Blondeliini of North and Central America and the West Indies (Diptera: Tachinidae)". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada. 117 (S132): 3–130. doi:10.4039/entm117132fv.
- ^ a b c d Wulp, F. M. van der (1890). "Family Muscidae". Biologia Centrali-Americana :zoology, Botany and Archaeology. 2: 186–204. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ^ Brauer, F.; Bergenstamm, J. E. von (1891). "Die Zweiflugler des Kaiserlichen Museums zu Wien. V. Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Muscaria Schizometopa (exclusive Anthomyidae)". F. Tempsky, Wien: 142.
- ^ Walker, Frances (1853). Diptera. Part IV, pp. 253-474, pls. 7-8. In [Saunders, W. W. (ed.)], Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Sauders, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. Vol. 1. London: Van Voorst. pp. 1–474.
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