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Species of fly

Actia interrupta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Genus: Actia
Species: A. interrupta
Binomial name
Actia interrupta
Curran, 1933
Synonyms
  • Actia labellata Kamran, 1980
  • Actia pauciseta Kamran, 1980

Actia interrupta is a species of tachinid flies in the genus Actia of the family Tachinidae. Actia interrupta is an important parasitoid of the genus Choristoneura, which includes pests such as the spruce budworm.

Distribution

Alaska, British Columbia to Newfoundland, California to Virginia and Tennessee, not recorded from most of central United States with the exception of Colorado.

References

  1. Curran, C.H. (1933). "The North American species of Acia in the American Museum of Natural History" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (614): 1–7. hdl:2246/2045.
  2. "Tachinidae". ITIS Report. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
  3. "Dictionary of Common (Vernacular) Names". Retrieved 2012-07-15.
  4. Cusson, Michel; Laforge, Marlène; Régnière, Jacques; Béliveau, Catherine; Trudel, Diane; Thireau, J.‐Claude; Bellemare, Guy; Keirstead, Natalie; Stolz, Don (February 2002). "Multiparasitism of Choristoneura fumiferana by the ichneumonid Tranosema rostrale and the tachinid Actia interrupta : occurrence in the field and outcome of competition under laboratory conditions". Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. 102 (2): 125–133. doi:10.1046/j.1570-7458.2002.00932.x.
  5. Schoenmaker, Astrid; Cusson, Michel; van Frankenhuyzen, Kees (2001). "Interactions between Bacillus thuringiensis and parasitoids of late-instar larvae of the spruce budworm (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)". Can. J. Zool. 79 (9). Canada: NRC Canada: 1697–1703. doi:10.1139/z01-127.
  6. ^ "Taxonomic and Host Catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico". North American Dipterists Society. Archived from the original on 20 December 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
Taxon identifiers
Actia interrupta

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