Ectophasia
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Ectophasia is a genus of flies
in the family Tachinidae
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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
- Ectophasia crassipennisEctophasia crassipennisEctophasia crassipennis' is a species of 'parasitic flies' belonging to the family Tachinidae subfamily Phasiinae. This fly is present in most of Europe. The adults grow up to long and can mostly be encountered from early August through late September feeding on nectar of flowers .Their large...
(Fabricius, 1794) - Ectophasia platymesa (Walker, 1858)
- Ectophasia rotundiventris (Loew, 1858)