Coenosia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Muscidae
- Genus
- Coenosia
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Coenosia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Coenosia
Coenosia is a very large genus (more than 350 species) of true flies of the family Muscidae. Coenosia are known as tiger flies since they are predators and hunt many kinds of insects and other invertebrates.
In Denmark, fungi Strongwellsea tigrinae and Strongwellsea acerosa (from the Strongwellsea genus, order Entomophthorales) infect the flying hosts from the genus Coenosia. Including species Coenosia tigrina and Coenosia testacea. While most fungi spore once the host is dead, with Strongwellsea, the host continues to live for days, carrying out normal activities and socialising with other flies while the fungus consumes its genitals, fat reserves, reproductive organs and finally its muscle, all the while shooting out thousands of spores on to other individuals.
...Coenosia in languages:
- Chinese
- 穢蠅屬
- Czech
- drobnička
- English
- Tiger Flies
- Japanese
- ハナレメイエバエ属
- Thai
- แมลงวันซีโนเซีย
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Coenosia abdominalis
- Coenosia abnormis
- Coenosia abyssinica
- Coenosia acromiata
- Coenosia acuticornis
- Coenosia agromyzina
- Coenosia albicornis
- Coenosia algivora
- Coenosia ambulans
- Coenosia angustifolia
- Coenosia antennata
- Coenosia argentipes
- Coenosia aristalis
- Coenosia atra
- Coenosia atrata
- Coenosia atritibia
- Coenosia attenuata
- Coenosia bilineella
- Coenosia bonita
- Coenosia brevimana
- Coenosia brunneipennis
- Coenosia canadensis
- Coenosia comita
- Coenosia conforma
- Coenosia costata
- Coenosia cuthbertsoni
- Coenosia cyclophthalma
- Coenosia demoralis
- Coenosia diluta
- Coenosia dubiosa
- Coenosia exigua
- Coenosia exilis
- Coenosia fanjingensis
- Coenosia fascigera
- Coenosia femoralis
- Coenosia flavimana
- Coenosia flaviseta
- Coenosia flavivibrissata
- Coenosia freyi
- Coenosia frisoni
- Coenosia globuliseta
- Coenosia humilis
- Coenosia imperator
- Coenosia infantula
- Coenosia intermedia
- Coenosia inversa
- Coenosia lacteipennis
- Coenosia lata
- Coenosia longimaculata
- Coenosia minor
- Coenosia mollicula
- Coenosia multimaculata
- Coenosia munroi
- Coenosia natalia
- Coenosia nigrescens
- Coenosia nigricoxa
- Coenosia nigridigita
- Coenosia nodosa
- Coenosia octopunctata
- Coenosia octosignata
- Coenosia pallipes
- Coenosia pedella
- Coenosia pilifemur
- Coenosia pulicaria
- Coenosia pumila
- Coenosia punctigera
- Coenosia punctipes
- Coenosia pygmaea
- Coenosia remissa
- Coenosia ruficornis
- Coenosia rufipalpis
- Coenosia semialba
- Coenosia semifumosa
- Coenosia setalis
- Coenosia sexpustulata
- Coenosia simulans
- Coenosia strigipes
- Coenosia stuckenbergi
- Coenosia tarsata
- Coenosia testacea
- Coenosia tigrina
- Coenosia tripunctiventris
- Coenosia triseta
- Coenosia verralli
- Coenosia vittata
- Coenosia xenia
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