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Ormia
Sign in to saveOrmia is a small genus of nocturnal flies in the family Tachinidae, that are parasitoids of katydids and crickets.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 14
- With media
- 12
- Family
- Tachinidae
- Collections
- EMEC, MCGILL UNIVERSITY, ABS, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- United States, Ecuador, Panama, Colombia, Costa Rica, Bolivia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Tachinidae
- Image
- Ormia ochracea (gravid female).jpg
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- taxon name
- Ormia
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Ormia
- Commons category
- Ormia
- diel cycle
- diurnality
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Ormia is a small genus of nocturnal flies in the family Tachinidae, that are parasitoids of katydids and crickets.
Flies in this genus have become model organisms in sound localization experiments because of their "ears", which are complex structures inside the fly's prothorax near the bases of the front legs. The most common and widespread species, Ormia ochracea, has been the center of this research.
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