What is Tachinidae?
{{Taxobox | image = Tachinidae.jpg | image_width= 250px | image_caption = | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Arthropod]]a | classis = [[Insect]]a | ordo = [[Fly|Diptera]] | zoosubsectio = [[Calyptratae]] | superfamilia = [[Oestroidea]] | familia = '''Tachinidae''' | subdivision_ranks = Subfamilies | subdivision = *[[Dexiinae]] *[[Exoristinae]] *[[Goniinae]] *[[Phasiinae]] *[[Tachininae]] }} '''Tachinidae''' is a [[Family (biology)|family]] of [[Fly|flies]]. There are over 8,200 [[species]] in this family. There are about 1,300 in [[North America]]. These flies are commonly known as '''tachina flies''' or '''tachinids'''. They are found in almost all [[habitat]]s all over the world. There are [[Neotropical]], [[Nearctic]], [[Afrotropical]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.africaninvertebrates.org.za/Barraclough1996_1_234.aspx |title=Barraclough, D.A. 1996. ''Montanothalma natalensis'', a new high altitude genus and species of Microphthalmini (Diptera: Tachinidae: Tachininae) from the Natal Drakensberg of South Africa. ''Annals of the Natal Museum'' '''37''': 123-129. |access-date=2010-01-06 |archive-date=2009-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090828043446/http://www.africaninvertebrates.org.za/Barraclough1996_1_234.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Palaearctic]], [[Indomalaya ecozone|Oriental]], [[Australasia]]n and [[Oceania|Oceanic]] species. ==References== {{reflist}} {{commonscat|Tachinidae}} {{wikispecies|Tachinidae}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Flies]]