Zaira (fly)

Zaira is a genus of parasitic flies in the family Tachinidae.^[4][5][6] Larvae are parasitoids of adult beetles.^[7]

Zaira
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Tachinidae
Subfamily:	Exoristinae
Tribe:	Blondeliini
Genus:	Zaira Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830[1]
Type species
Zaira agrestis (= Tachina cinerea Fallén, 1810) Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830[1]
Synonyms
Fabricia Meigen, 1838[2] Sitophaga Gistel, 1848 Biomya Rondani, 1856 Viviania Rondani, 1861 Viviana Rondani, 1861 Phegea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863[3] Biomyia Schiner, 1868 Pseudatractocera Townsend, 1892 Eubiomyia Townsend, 1916 Eubiomya O’Hara & Wood, 2004 Epimeigenia Townsend, 1931 Thematheca Reinhard, 1961 Nearchus Reinhard, 1964 Synorbitalia Thompson, 1968 Vivianoidea Thompson, 1968

Species

• Zaira adscripta (Wulp, 1890)^[8]
• Zaira angustifrons (Reinhard, 1930)
• Zaira argentina (Townsend, 1931)
• Zaira arrisor (Reinhard, 1959)
• Zaira aurigera (Coquillett, 1895)
• Zaira calosomae (Townsend, 1916)
• Zaira cinerea (Fallén, 1810)
• Zaira duplaris (Reinhard, 1964)
• Zaira eleodivora (Walton, 1918)
• Zaira flavipes (Thompson, 1968)
• Zaira georgiae (Brauer & von Bergenstamm, 1891)^[9]
• Zaira grisea (Thompson, 1968)
• Zaira lateralis (Curran, 1925)
• Zaira leechi (Curran, 1932)
• Zaira medeola (Reinhard, 1961)
• Zaira mutabilis (Coquillett, 1904)
• Zaira neomexicana (Townsend, 1892)
• Zaira nocturnalis (Reinhard, 1930)
• Zaira nubecula (Wulp, 1890)^[8]
• Zaira robusta (Wulp, 1890)^[8]
• Zaira sordicolor (Townsend, 1891)
• Zaira sordida (Walker, 1853)^[10]
• Zaira sublucens (Wulp, 1890)^[8]