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Plesina

Plesina is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.

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Plesina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Subfamily: Tachininae
Tribe: Minthoini
Genus: Plesina
Meigen, 18381
Type species
Tachina phalerata
Meigen, 18242
Synonyms
  • Kugleria Verbeke, 19703
  • Xanthopetia Townsend, 19334

Plesina is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.5

Species

  • Plesina africana Kugler, 19786
  • Plesina asiatica Richter, 19887
  • Plesina claripennis Mesnil, 19538
  • Plesina deserticola Kugler, 19786
  • Plesina fascipennis (Wiedemann, 1830)9
  • Plesina nepalensis Kugler, 198210
  • Plesina nigroscutellata Cerretti & Tschorsnig, 200811
  • Plesina phalerata (Meigen, 1824)2
  • Plesina zimini Richter, 199112
References

References

  1. Meigen, Johann Wilhelm (1838). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten. Vol. 7. Hamm. pp. xii + 1–434. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  2. Meigen, J. W. (1824). "Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten". Vierter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann, Hamm.: xii + 428 pp. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  3. Verbeke, J. (1970). "Diptera (Brachycera): Tachinidae (excl. Siphonina)". South African Animal Life. Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950–1951. 14: 268–300.
  4. Townsend, C. H. T. (1933). "New genera and species of Old World oestromuscoid flies". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 40: 439–479.
  5. O’Hara, James E.; Henderson, Shannon J.; Wood, D. Monty (5 March 2020). "Preliminary Checklist of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of the World" (PDF). Tachinidae Resources. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
  6. Kugler, J. (1978). "A revision of the tachinid fly genus Plesina (Diptera, Tachinidae)". Entomologica Germanica. 4: 84–96.
  7. Richter, V.A. (1988). "New Palearctic genera and species of tachinids (Diptera, Tachinidae)". Systematika Nasekomikh I Kleshchei (in Russian). 70: 202–212.
  8. Mesnil, L.P. (1953). "Nouveaux tachinaires d'Orient. (2e partie.)". Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 89: 146–178.
  9. Wiedemann, Christian Rudolph Wilhelm (1830). Aussereuropäische Zweiflügelige Insekten. Vol. 2. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  10. Kugler, J. (1982). "Plesina nepalensis (Diptera: Tachinidae), a new species from Nepal". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington. 10: 93–96.
  11. Cerretti, Pierfilippo; Tschorsnig, H.-P. (2008). "A new species of Plesnia Meigen (Diptera: Tachinidae) from the Mediterranean". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A. 1: 445–450. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
  12. Richter, V.A. (1991). "A new tribe, new and little known species of the tachinid flies (Diptera, Tachinidae) of the fauna of the USSR". Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie (in Russian). 70: 229–246.