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Protohystricia
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Protohystricia

Protohystricia is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae. Their larvae are deposited next to the burrows of porina moth caterpillars, which they will locate and parasitise.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Protohystricia gourlayi

speciesProtohystricia gourlayi

Protohystricia orientalis

speciesProtohystricia orientalis

Protohystricia huttoni

speciesProtohystricia huttoni

Protohystricia alcis

speciesProtohystricia alcis

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 377850.