Adejeania vexatrix

Taxobox
name = "Adejeania vexatrix"
status =


image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Brachycera
infraordo = Muscomorpha
zoosubsectio = Calyptratae
superfamilia = Oestroidea
familia = Tachinidae
subfamilia = Tachininae
tribus = Tachinini
genus = "Adejeania"
species = "A. vexatrix"
binomial = "Adejeania vexatrix"
binomial_authority = (Osten Sacken, 1877)
synonyms = "Dejeania vexatrix" Osten Sacken, 1877

"Adejeania vexatrix" is a strikingly red tachinid fly from western North America, where it can be found from Mexico [http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/library/FIA/2006/FSP_Y062001b.pdf] up to Wyoming and British Columbia. Although it is the only species of its genus in North America, there are four "Adejeania" species in Mexico.

imilar species

A similar looking tachinid fly, "Hystricia abrupta", is found in the eastern United States, and does not have elongated mouth parts. [http://bugguide.net/node/view/32887]

"Paradejeania rutilioides" also looks similar. [http://bugguide.net/node/view/32887]

Further reading

* Arnaud, P.H. (1951). Notes on the range extension of "Adejeania vexatrix" (Diptera: Tachinidae or Larvaevoridae) into Wyoming and British Columbia. "Entomological News", 62(6):192.