Leschenaultia bicolor

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| genus = Leschenaultia

| species = bicolor

| authority = (Macquart, 1846){{cite book |last1=Macquart |first1=P.J.M. |title=Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Supplement. [1] |date=1846 |publisher=Mem. Soc. R. Sci. Agric. Arts |location=Lille |pages=133–364, 20 pls |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109525#page/5/mode/1up |access-date=5 December 2020}}

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| synonyms = *Blepharipeza bicolor Macquart, 1846

  • Parachaeta fusca Townsend, 1916{{cite journal |last1=Townsend |first1=C.H.T. |title=Designations of muscoid genotypes, with new genera and species |journal=Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus |date=1916 |volume=4 |pages=4–12 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8221388#page/182/mode/1up |access-date=4 July 2023}}

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Leschenaultia bicolor is a species of bristle fly in the family Tachinidae.{{cite web |last1=O’Hara |first1=James E. |last2=Henderson |first2=Shannon J. |first3=D. Monty |last3=Wood |title=Preliminary Checklist of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of the World|url=http://www.nadsdiptera.org/Tach/WorldTachs/Checklist/Tachchlist_ver2.1.pdf |website=Tachinidae Resources |access-date=21 August 2023 |date=5 March 2020}}{{cite web | url = http://www.bio-nica.info/biblioteca/OHara2004Tachinidae.pdf | title = Checklist Of The Tachinidae (Diptera) Of America North Of Mexico | first = James E. | last = O'Hara |author2=Wood, D. Monty | date = 28 January 2004 | publisher = Biodiversidad de Nicaragua | location = Nicaragua | pages = 1–42 }}

Hosts

It is a parasitoid of Halysidota caterpillars, including Halysidota cinctipes and Halysidota pearsoni.{{cite journal |last1=Gudin |first1=Filipe Macedo |last2=Carneiro |first2=Isabela Maciel Monteiro |title=An overview of hosts of the New World genus Leschenaultia (Diptera: Tachinidae), with a new record for L. bicolor in Halysidota pearsoni (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) in Brazil |journal=The Canadian Entomologist |date=December 2020 |volume=152 |issue=6 |pages=734–761 |doi=10.4039/tce.2020.46}}

Distribution

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