''Actia diffidens'' is a species of
tachinid flies in the genus ''
Actia'' of the family
Tachinidae.
It is known to
parasitize
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has c ...
Canadian
tortricid
The Tortricidae are a family of moths, commonly known as tortrix moths or leafroller moths, in the order Lepidoptera. This large family has over 11,000 species described, and is the sole member of the superfamily Tortricoidea, although the genus ...
moth larvae.
Distribution
Ontario to
New Brunswick, to
Missouri and
North Carolina and
New Mexico.
References
Diptera of North America
diffidens
Insects described in 1933
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