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Zaira cinerea (Fallen, 1810) (a parasitoid fly)

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Ellis, 1926 Viviana cinerea Fallén, parasitic on Carabus monilis F.

Zaira cinerea 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

Zaira cinerea is associated with:

Photos larva Carabidae - ground beetles, tiger beetles (Coleoptera) larva is endoparasitoid of abdomen of imago Foreign Belshaw, R., 1993
larva Carabus monilis - a ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) larva is endoparasitoid of abdomen of imago Belshaw, R., 1993
Photos larva Carabus violaceus - Violet Ground Beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) larva is endoparasitoid of abdomen of imago Belshaw, R., 1993 [NHM]
Photos larva Pterostichus niger - a ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) larva is endoparasitoid of abdomen of imago Belshaw, R., 1993 [Coll: P. Chandler]

There may be more taxa associated with Zaira cinerea listed at higher taxonomic level

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

Associated with Zaira cinerea:

Zaira cinerea 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)

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