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Frontina

Frontina is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.

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Frontina
Frontina laeta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Subfamily: Exoristinae
Tribe: Goniini
Genus: Frontina
Meigen, 18381
Type species
Tachina laeta
Meigen, 18381

Frontina is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.234

Species

  • Frontina adusta (Walker, 1853)5
  • Frontina femorata Shima, 19886
  • Frontina laeta (Meigen, 1824)7
  • Frontina nigrotibialis Shima, 19688
  • Frontina tricolor Shima, 19886
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. 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 21 August 2023.
  3. O'Hara, James E.; Shima, Hiroshi; Zhang, Chuntian (2009). "Annotated Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2190. Auckland, New Zealand: Magnolia Press: 1–236. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2190.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. Retrieved 2011-02-24.
  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.
  5. 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.
  6. Shima, H. (1988). "Some remarkable new species of Tachinidae (Diptera) from Japan and the Indo-Australian Region". Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History. 8: 1–37.
  7. Meigen, J. W. (1824). "Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten". Vierter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann, Hamm.: xii + 428 pp. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  8. Shima, H. (1968). "A new species of the genus Frontina Meigen from Kyushu, Japan (Diptera: Tachinidae)". Kontyû. 36: 355–358.