Microsoma exiguum (Meigen, 1824)
(a parasitoid fly)

Interactions where Microsoma exiguum is the controlling partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'References').

Stage Summary Taxon Vernacular Classification References Darwin Classification of Active Taxon Active Taxon Active Vernacular Active Taxon Uncertain Active State Active Part Active Stage Relationship Relationship Uncertain Relationship Geography Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon Passive Taxon Passive Vernacular Passive Taxon Uncertain Passive State Passive Part Passive Stage Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon Indoors etc Season
larva larva is endoparasitoid of imago Foreign Polydrusus inustus (A Weevil) Coleoptera: Curculionidae Tachinid Flies (Diptera: Tachinidae), Belshaw, R., 1993
 /Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Tachinidae/Microsoma exiguum/Microsoma exiguuma parasitoid flylarva Animal / parasitoid / endoparasitoidForeign /Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Polydrusus inustus/Polydrusus inustus(a weevil)imago
larva larva is endoparasitoid of imago Foreign Sitona a genus of weevils Coleoptera: Curculionidae Tachinid Flies (Diptera: Tachinidae), Belshaw, R., 1993
Notes on parasites of Sitona in Europe, with especial reference to Campogaster exigua (Meig.), Berry, P.A. & Parker, H.L., 1950
 /Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Tachinidae/Microsoma exiguum/Microsoma exiguuma parasitoid flylarva Animal / parasitoid / endoparasitoidForeign /Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Sitona/Sitonaa genus of weevilsimago
larva larva is endoparasitoid of imago Foreign Hypera postica Clover Leaf Weevil Coleoptera: Curculionidae Tachinid Flies (Diptera: Tachinidae), Belshaw, R., 1993
 /Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Tachinidae/Microsoma exiguum/Microsoma exiguuma parasitoid flylarva Animal / parasitoid / endoparasitoidForeign /Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Hypera (Hypera) postica/Hypera (Hypera) posticaclover leaf weevilimago

Microsoma exiguum (a parasitoid fly) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Microsoma exiguum (a parasitoid fly) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Author & YearTitleSource
Belshaw, R., 1993Tachinid Flies (Diptera: Tachinidae)Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 10, Part 4a(i), 169pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Berry, P.A. & Parker, H.L., 1950Notes on parasites of Sitona in Europe, with especial reference to Campogaster exigua (Meig.)Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 52: 251-258.
Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesMicrosoma exiguum (a parasitoid fly)
TribeDufouriini (a tribe of parasitoid flies)
SubfamilyDEXIINAE (a subfamily of parasitoid flies)
FamilyTACHINIDAE (parasitoid flies)
SuperfamilyOESTROIDEA (blow-flies, blue-bottles, flesh flies and parasitoid flies)
Section Calyptratae (dung, house & parasitoid flies, blue & green bottles)
InfraorderMuscomorpha (hover, scuttle, acalypterate, dung, house & parasitoid flies, blue/green bottles)
SuborderBRACHYCERA (short-horned flies)
OrderDIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Microsoma exiguum (a parasitoid fly)

Microsoma exiguum (a parasitoid fly) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Literature

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Microsoma exiguum (a parasitoid fly):

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