Phasia aurulans

Phasia aurulans
	P. aurulans on common milkweed
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Tachinidae
Subfamily:	Phasiinae
Tribe:	Phasiini
Genus:	Phasia
Species:	P. aurulans
Binomial name
	Phasia aurulans; Meigen, 1824
Synonyms
	Alophora aurulans Girschner, 1887; Alophora splendida Coquillett, 1902; Alophora aurulans Stein, 1924; Phasiomyia meliceris Reinhard, 1955; Allophorella aurulans Dupuis, 1963; Alophora aurulans Draber-Monko, 1965; Phasiomyia splendida Sabrosky and Arnaud, 1965; Phasia aurulans Herting, 1984; Phasia splendida O’Hara and Wood, 1998;

Phasia aurulans is a species of tachinid fly.^[1]

Description

Body length 7-9mm.^[1]

It is a Holarctic species. In the Nearctic, it is distributed from coast to coast. In the Palaearctic it is distributed in Europe northward to Belgium, middle Sweden and St. Petersburg, northern Kazakhstan, southern Siberia, the Russian Far East and Japan.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Sun, Xuekui; Marshall, Steven A. (2003). "Systematics of Phasia Latreille (Diptera: Tachinidae)". Zootaxa. 276. Auckland, New Zealand: Magnolia Press. ISBN 1-877354-09-0.