Actia (genus)
Encyclopedia
Actia is a genus
of large flies
in the family Tachinidae
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of large flies
Fly
True flies are insects of the order Diptera . They possess a pair of wings on the mesothorax and a pair of halteres, derived from the hind wings, on the metathorax...
in the family Tachinidae
Tachinidae
Tachinidae is a large and rather variable family of true flies within the insect order Diptera, with more than 8,200 known species and many more to be discovered. There are over 1300 species in North America. Insects in this family are commonly called tachina flies or simply tachinids...
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Species
- Actia amblyceraActia amblyceraActia amblycera is a species of tachinid flies in the genus Actia of the family Tachinidae.....
Aldrich, 1934 - Actia americana
- Actia ampla
- Actia antiqua
- Actia atra
- Actia autumnalis (Townsend, 1917)
- Actia biarticulata
- Actia brevis
- Actia brunnea
- Actia chrysocera
- Actia ciligera
- Actia cinerea
- Actia clavula
- Actia completa
- Actia cornuta
- Actia crassicornis (MeigenJohann Wilhelm MeigenJohann Wilhelm Meigen was a German entomologist famous for his pioneering work on Diptera.-Early years:Meigen was born in Solingen, the fifth of eight children of Johann Clemens Meigen and Sibylla Margaretha Bick. His parents, though not poor, were not wealthy either. The ran a small shop in...
, 1824) - Actia cuthbertsoni
- Actia darwini
- Actia dasymyia O'Hara, 1991
- Actia deferens
- Actia destituta
- Actia diffidensActia diffidensActia diffidens is a species of tachinid flies in the genus Actia of the family Tachinidae.. It is known to parasitize Canadian tortricid larvae....
Curran, 1933 - Actia dimorpha O'Hara, 1991
- Actia dubitata
- Actia eucosmae
- Actia exsecta
- Actia fallax
- Actia fracticornis
- Actia fulvicauda
- Actia gratiosa
- Actia hargreavesi
- Actia humeralis
- Actia infantula (ZetterstedtJohan Wilhelm ZetterstedtJohan Wilhelm Zetterstedt was a Swedish naturalist who worked mainly on Diptera and Hymenoptera.-Biography:Zetterstedt studied at the University of Lund, where he was a pupil of Anders Jahan Retzius. He received the title of professor in 1822 and succeeded Carl Adolph Agardh as professor of botany...
, 1844) - Actia interruptaActia interruptaActia interrupta is a species of tachinid flies in the genus Actia of the family Tachinidae. Actia interrupta is an important parasitoid of the obliquebanded leafroller....
Curran, 1933 - Actia jocularis Mesnil, 1957
- Actia lamiaActia lamiaActia lamia is the type species of the genus Actia of the family Tachinidae..-Range:It is a common Europen species, ranging extents from Italy in the south, to parts of Norway in the north, and from Great Britain in the west to the Caucusus and parts of Siberia in the east.-Biology:Like most...
(MeigenJohann Wilhelm MeigenJohann Wilhelm Meigen was a German entomologist famous for his pioneering work on Diptera.-Early years:Meigen was born in Solingen, the fifth of eight children of Johann Clemens Meigen and Sibylla Margaretha Bick. His parents, though not poor, were not wealthy either. The ran a small shop in...
, 1838) - Actia lata
- Actia linguata
- Actia longilingua
- Actia maksymovi Mesnil, 1952
- Actia mimetica
- Actia mongolica
- Actia munroi
- Actia nigra
- Actia nigrapex
- Actia nigriventris
- Actia nigroscutellataActia nigroscutellataActia nigroscutellata is a species of tachinid flies in the genus Actia of the family Tachinidae. It is native to Northern Europe, mostly Scandinavia, where it is rare....
Lundbeck, 1927 - Actia nitidella
- Actia nitidiventris
- Actia oblimata
- Actia painei
- Actia pallens
- Actia pamirica
- Actia panamensis
- Actia perdita
- Actia philippinensis
- Actia picipalpis
- Actia pilipennis (FallénCarl Fredrik FallénCarl Fredrik Fallén was a Swedish botanist and entomologist.Fallén taught at the Lund University. He wrote Diptera Sueciae .In 1817, Fallen discovered the Muscina stabulans species of flies....
, 1810) - Actia pokharana Shima, 1970
- Actia pulex
- Actia quadriseta
- Actia radialis O'Hara, 1991
- Actia rejecta
- Actia resinellae (SchrankFranz Paula von SchrankFranz von Paula Schrank was a German botanist and entomologist.Schrank was the first director of the botanical gardens in Munich from 1809 to 1832.Shrank was the first author to use the genus name Triops...
, 1781) - Actia rubifrons
- Actia rubiginosa
- Actia rufescens (Greene, 1934)
- Actia rufibasis
- Actia russula
- Actia schineri
- Actia siphonosoma
- Actia solida Tachi & Shima, 1998
- Actia sternalis O'Hara, 1991
- Actia stiglinae
- Actia takanoi
- Actia tarsata
- Actia triseta
- Actia uruhuasi
- Actia vulpina
- Actia yasumatsui Shima, 1970