Sorokina, Vera S.
Species
Common Tiger Fly
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderDiptera
- FamilyMuscidae
Observations7,452
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 3,634
- With media
- 55
- Family
- Muscidae
- Collections
- UAM
- Recorded in
- United States
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- taxon name
- Coenosia
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Coenosia
- Commons category
- Coenosia
- taxon common name
- Tiger Flies
- diel cycle
- diurnality
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thumb|Coenosia atra with prey
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Coenosia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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