Therobia

Therobia is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.[2] Therobia Leonidei is a species of Therobia. Therobia Leonidei is a parasitoid, th[3] is means that they are parasitic, laying their eggs within a body of a host. In the case of Therobia Leonidei, its most common host is a type of bush-cricket called the Tettigonia Viridissima Linnaeus. Males of this species are most often the target of Therobia Leonidei. Tettigonia Viridissima Linnaeus produce certain sounds to a[4] ttract females for mating, the Therobia Leonidei has the ability to track down these bush-crickets by listening for this mating call.

Therobia Leonidei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Family:
Tachinidae
Genus:
Therobia

Brauer, 1862

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Therobia Leonidei

References[3]
  1. Lehmann, Gerlind U. C.; Heller, Klaus-Gerhard (1998-08-24). "Bushcricket song structure and predation by the acoustically orienting parasitoid fly Therobia leonidei (Diptera: Tachinidae: Ormiini)". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 43 (4–5): 239–245. doi:10.1007/s002650050488. ISSN 0340-5443. S2CID 45531806.
  2. James E. O'Hara, Hiroshi Shima, & Chuntian Zhang. "Annotated Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China." Zootaxa 2190 (2009): 1-236.
  3. Stumpner, A.; Lakes-Harlan, R. (February 1996). "Auditory interneurons in a hearing fly (Therobia leonidei, Ormiini, Tachinidae, Diptera)". Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 178 (2). doi:10.1007/BF00188164. ISSN 0340-7594. S2CID 37821723.
  4. Mei, Maurizio; Nardi, Gianluca; Cerreti, Pierfilippo (2021-03-19). "First record of Tettigonia viridissima Linnaeus, 1758 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) as host of the ormiine Therobia leonidei Mesnil, 1964 (Diptera: Tachinidae)". Fragmenta Entomologica. 53 (1): 65–66. doi:10.13133/2284-4880/484. ISSN 2284-4880.

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