Lydella

Lydella is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae. Lydella thompsoni can be used in the UK for the biological control of the European corn borer.

==Species== Lydella acellaris Chao & Shi, 1982 Lydella adiscalis Chao, 1982 Lydella breviseria (Pandellé, 1896) Lydella columbina Richter, 1976 Lydella deckeri (Curran, 1929) Lydella gannanensis Liu, Zhang & Xi, 2023 Lydella grisescens Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 Lydella jalisco Woodley, 1994 Lydella lacustris Herting, 1959 Lydella matutina Richter, 2003 Lydella minense (Townsend, 1927) Lydella oryzae (Townsend, 1916) Lydella parasitica Mesnil, 1959 Lydella radicis (Townsend, 1916) Lydella ripae (Brischke, 1885) Lydella scirpophagae (Chao & Shi, 1982) Lydella sesamiae (Mesnil, 1968) Lydella stabulans (Meigen, 1824) Lydella striatalis (Townsend, 1916) Lydella thompsoni Herting, 1959