Dinera
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Dinera is a genus of tachinid flies
in the family Tachinidae
. Most larva
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s of Coleoptera (Scarabaeidae
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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...
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...
. Most larva
Larva
A larva is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults. Animals with indirect development such as insects, amphibians, or cnidarians typically have a larval phase of their life cycle...
e are parasitoid
Parasitoid
A parasitoid is an organism that spends a significant portion of its life history attached to or within a single host organism in a relationship that is in essence parasitic; unlike a true parasite, however, it ultimately sterilises or kills, and sometimes consumes, the host...
s of Coleoptera (Scarabaeidae
Scarabaeidae
The family Scarabaeidae as currently defined consists of over 30,000 species of beetles worldwide. The species in this large family are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of this family is fairly unstable, with numerous competing theories, and new proposals appearing quite...
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Species
- Dinera angustifrons Zhang & Shima, 2006
- Dinera brevipalpis Zhang & Shima, 2006
- Dinera carinifrons (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....
, 1817) - Dinera chaoi Zhang & Shima, 2006
- Dinera ferinaDinera ferinaDinera ferina is a species of fly in the family Tachinidae....
(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....
, 1817) - Dinera fuscata Zhang & Shima, 2006
- Dinera grisescens (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....
, 1817) - Dinera longirostris VilleneuveJoseph Th.Villeneuve de JantiJoseph Villeneuve de Janti Was a French entomologist who specialised inDiptera .He worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in the same city.As well as naming many new taxa Villeneuve made many significant contributions to medical entomology.He...
, 1936 - Dinera maculosa Zhang & Shima, 2006
- Dinera miranda (Mesnil, 1963)
- Dinera orientalis Zhang & Shima, 2006
- Dinera setifacies Zhang & Shima, 2006
- Dinera sichuanensis Zhang & Shima, 2006
- Dinera similis Zhang & Shima, 2006
- Dinera takanoi (Mesnil, 1957)
- Dinera xuei Zhang & Shima, 2006