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Lydina americana (Townsend, 1892) species complex

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Left lateral view of adult male
Body Length: 5.4mm
Specimen identifier number: TachImage-00021
Label data: "N. Burgess Twp./ Lanark Co., Ont./ 25.VIII.1966/ D.M. Wood", "Lydina/ americana (Tnsd.)/ species complex/ Det. J. O'Hara 2001"
Depository: Canadian National Collection of Insects
Image by Bruce Cooper, AAFC

Dorsal view of adult male
Body Length: 5.4mm
Specimen identifier number: TachImage-00022
Label data: "N. Burgess Twp./ Lanark Co., Ont./ 25.VIII.1966/ D.M. Wood", "Lydina/ americana (Tnsd.)/ species complex/ Det. J. O'Hara 2001"
Depository: Canadian National Collection of Insects
Image by Bruce Cooper, AAFC

Classification
Insecta: Diptera
Tachinidae
Tachininae
Polideini
Lydina americana

Additional information and links


Distributional, taxonomic and host information for Lydina americana
Lydina page in Taxonomic and host-parasitoid catalogue of the Tachinidae of American north of Mexico

Reference
O'Hara, J.E. 2002. Revision of the Polideini (Tachinidae) of America north of Mexico. Studia Dipterologica. Supplement 10. 170 pp.

First published on the Internet on 28 January 2013
Last update: 3 April 2023
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