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Macquartia tenebricosa (Meigen, 1824) (a parasitoid fly)

Suggested Literature

General Works

Drummond, D.C., 1952 Macquartia tenebricosa ab. nitida Meig. (Dipt., Tachinidae) bred from Chrysolina graminis L. (Col., Chrysomelidae)

Macquartia tenebricosa may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)
CALYPTRATA
(calypterate flies)
TACHINIDAE
(parasitoid flies)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Macquartia tenebricosa is associated with:

Photos larva Chrysolina - a genus of leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) larva is endoparasitoid of Foreign Belshaw, R., 1993
larva Chrysolina graminis - Tansy Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) larva is endoparasitoid of Belshaw, R., 1993
Drummond, D.C., 1952
Photos larva Chrysolina herbacea - Mint Leaf Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) larva is endoparasitoid of larva Cox, M.L., 2007
Photos larva Chrysolina hyperici - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) larva is endoparasitoid of larva Cox, M.L., 2007
larva Chrysolina varians - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) larva is endoparasitoid of larva Belshaw, R., 1993

There may be more taxa associated with Macquartia tenebricosa listed at higher taxonomic level

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)
CYCLORRHAPHA
(a suborder of flies)

Associated with Macquartia tenebricosa:

Macquartia tenebricosa may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

ANIMALIA
(animals)
INSECTA
(insects)
DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)
TACHINIDAE
(parasitoid flies)

References

Belshaw, R., 1993 Tachinid Flies (Diptera: Tachinidae)
Cox, M.L., 2007 Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland
Drummond, D.C., 1952 Macquartia tenebricosa ab. nitida Meig. (Dipt., Tachinidae) bred from Chrysolina graminis L. (Col., Chrysomelidae)

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