Trichopoda

Taxobox

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image_caption = "Trichopoda pennipes"
name = "Trichopoda"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Brachycera
infraordo = Muscomorpha
zoosubsectio = Calyptratae
familia = Tachinidae
subfamilia = Phasiinae
tribus = Trichopodini
genus = "Trichopoda"
genus_authority = Berthold, 1827
subdivision_ranks = subgenus
subdivision = *"Trichopoda (Galactomyia)" Townsend, 1908
*"Trichopoda (Trichopoda)" Berthold, 1827

"Trichopoda" is a genus of tachinid flies. The larva of most species are parasites on various Heteroptera and Orthoptera. [cite book|author=Arnaud Jr, Paul H.|year=1978 |title=A Host-Parasite Catalog of North American Tachinidae (Diptera)|pages=860 pp|publisher=United States Department of Agriculture|location= Washington, D.C.|language= English]

External links

* [http://cirrusimage.com/flies_trichopoda.htm Photographs of Trichopoda pennipes]

References