| Actia infantula (Zetterstedt, 1844) | Data | Map | Records |
| Sub-family:TACHININAE | Tribe: SIPHONINI | ||||||||
| Synonyms: infantula (Zetterstedt, 1844 - Tachina) [=antennalis (Rondani, 1859 - Thryptocera)] |
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| Shaw & Ford (1991): - | |||||||||
| Belshaw (1993): Hosts: in Britain the saprophagous Monopis laevigelia (Lepidoptera: Tineidae) (2 - inc. Woodroffe, 1953). Also 2 records from unknown hosts in bird nests. No European records. British distribution: S.England and Midlands (Hereford and Worcs). Flight period: late June to late August (46 records). | |||||||||
| Tschorsnig (1994): Europe to Central Sweden; NW RP BW / A CH. Dry warm forest edges. Early June to End September. In Malaise traps not rare. Monopis rusticella Cl. (Tineidae). | |||||||||
| JNCC Calypterate Review (1996): DISTRIBUTION Central England: Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridge, Hereford, Worcester. HABITAT Uncertain; possibly broadleaved woodland. ECOLOGY The larvae are parasitoids of the saprophagous caterpillars of the moth Monopis laevigella (Lepidoptera, Tineidae), and have also been reared from caterpillar hosts in birds' nests. Adults from May to August. STATUS Uncertain. There are a few post-1960 records. THREAT Uncertain. MANAGEMENT Uncertain. | |||||||||
| Shaw & Ford (2000): - | |||||||||
| Comments: 4mm, black | |||||||||
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| Legend: GBGRB=Great Britain, GBNI=Northern Ireland, IE=Ireland, GBCI=Channel Islands (P=present or -=absent); BENHS indicates whether the BENHS collection has it and which draw/column it is in. Status is taken from the JNCC Calypterate Review (1996) and the JNCC Recorder package (1997). Synonyms were taken from a number of sources but most notably the most recent Checklist of British Diptera by Peter Chandler. | |||||||||
| Acknowledgements: Many thanks to all the authors who let me use their information to construct this database. If there are spelling mistakes they were introduced by me during transcription and should not reflect on the original authors. | |||||||||
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