Botria frontosa (Meigen, 1824)

Tachi, Takuji, 2013, Systematic study of the genera Phryno Robineau-Desvoidy and Botria Rondani in the Palearctic Region, with discussions of their phylogenetic positions (Diptera, Tachinidae), Zootaxa 3609 (4), pp. 361-391 : 378-380

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3609.4.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5687338

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scientific name

Botria frontosa (Meigen, 1824)
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Botria frontosa (Meigen, 1824)

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Tachina frontosa Meigen, 1824: 388 . Lectotype female (MNHN, not examined), by designation of Herting (1972: 7). Type locality: France, Beaucaire.

See Herting and Dely-Draskovits (1993: 237) for a complete list of synonyms.

A detailed redescription of this species was given by Mesnil (1954: 334).

Diagnosis. Male. Vertex wide, 0.35–0.37 of head width; parafacial wider than width of first flagellomere; gena 0.38–0.42 of eye height; antenna with first flagellomere 4.5–5.0 times as long as pedicel; arista thickened on basal 2/3; male postabdomen with surstylus very slender and lacking minute setae ventrodistally, longer than cerci, curved inward on basal 1/ 3 in dorsal view; cerci strongly rounded on basal half in lateral view, nearly triangular in dorsal view. Female. Similar to male, but differing as follows: vertex slightly wider, approximately 0.4 of head width; first flagellomere slightly shorter, 3.5–4.0 times as long as pedicel.

Body length. 9–11 mm.

Specimens examined. JAPAN. Hokkaido: 1 male, 1 female (SEHU), Sapporo, 28.iv., 1.v.1966. Honshu: 1 female (BLKU), Todate, Aomori City, Aomori Prefecture, 25.iv.1982; 1 male, 1 female (BLKU), Yorii Town, Saitama Prefecture, 4.iv.1974; 1 male (HYO), Seppikogen, Hyogo Prefercture, 19.iv.1966. Shikoku: 1 female (BLKU), Yura, Kumakogen, Ehime Prefecture, 10.iv.2007 (Malaise trap). Kyushu: 1 female (BLKU), Memaru, Yabe Town, Kumamoto Prefecture, 14.ix.1985.

Distribution. Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu), Europe, Russia, Transcaucasia, Mongolia (O’Hara et al. 2009).

Host. This species is a known parasitoid of lepidopteran larvae of various families (Tschorsnig & Herting 1994).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tachinidae

Genus

Botria

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