Arthropods Daily – Issue No. 488 No. 488 |
The Tachinidae are a large and variable family of true flies within the insect order Diptera, with more than 8,200 known species and many more to be discovered. Over 1300 species have been described in North America alone. Insects in this family commonly are called tachina flies or simply tachinids. As far as is known, they all are protelean parasitoids, or occasionally parasites, of arthropods.
Ancestry Graph
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brachyceran-flies-.->blow-flies("family: Blow Flies")
brachyceran-flies-.->dance-flies("family: Dance Flies")
brachyceran-flies-.->dung-flies("family: Dung Flies")
brachyceran-flies-.->flesh-flies-and-satellite-flies("family: Flesh Flies and Satellite Flies")
brachyceran-flies-.->grass-flies("family: Grass Flies")
brachyceran-flies-.->heleomyzid-flies("family: Heleomyzid Flies")
brachyceran-flies-.->house-flies-and-allies("family: House Flies and Allies")
brachyceran-flies-.->hover-flies("family: Hover Flies")
brachyceran-flies-.->lesser-house-flies-and-allies("family: Lesser House Flies and Allies")
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brachyceran-flies-.->lonchoptera("genus: Lonchoptera")
brachyceran-flies-.->polleniidae("family: Polleniidae")
brachyceran-flies-.->root-maggot-flies("family: Root-maggot Flies")
brachyceran-flies-.->snipe-flies("family: Snipe Flies")
brachyceran-flies-.->soldier-flies("family: Soldier Flies")
brachyceran-flies-.->stiletto-flies("family: Stiletto Flies")
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brachyceran-flies-.->thick-headed-flies("family: Thick-headed Flies")
brachyceran-flies-.->woodlouse-flies("family: Woodlouse Flies")
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„Konny and the blues — Diary of a 26-legged being“
Konny the woodlouse struggles with the challenges of a 26-legged life and talks to a flying visitor about the dangers of climate change.
