Prosena siberita

Prosena siberita
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Subfamily: Dexiinae
Tribe: Dexiini
Genus: Prosena
Species: P. siberita
Binomial name
Prosena siberita
Fabricius
Synonyms
  • Prosena longirostris Egger, 1860
  • Prosena luculliana Róndani, 1861
  • Prosena sybarita Róndani, 1861
  • Stomoxys siberita Fabricius, 1775
P. siberita

Prosena siberita is a species of fly in the family Tachinidae.[1] It has a long proboscis that it keeps hinged under the body. Its larvae parasitize the larvae of scarab beetles.[2]

Prosena siberita in Europäischen Zweiflügeligen (figure 2)

References

  1. ↑ James E. O'Hara, Hiroshi Shima, & Chuntian Zhang. "Annotated Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China." Zootaxa 2190 (2009): 1-236.
  2. ↑ Robert Belshaw. "Tachinid Flies, Diptera: Tachinidae", Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol. 10, Part 4a(i), page 108, Royal Entomological Society of London, 1993.


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