Lydella

{{short description|Genus of flies}}

{{Automatic_taxobox

| image = Lydella-sp-Tachinid-fly-20100810a.JPG

| image_caption = Lydella sp.

| display_parents = 2

| taxon = Lydella

| authority = Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830{{cite journal |last1=Robineau-Desvoidy |first1=J.B. |title=Essai sur les myodaires |journal=Mémoires présentés par divers savans à l'Académie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France (Sciences Mathématiques et Physiques) |date=1830 |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=1–813 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3472165#page/9/mode/1up |access-date=7 January 2022}}

| type_species = Lydella grisescens

| type_species_authority = Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

| synonyms = *Diatraeophaga Townsend, 1916

• Leptotachina Brauer & von Berganstamm, 1891{{cite journal |last1= Brauer|first1= F.|last2= Bergenstamm|first2= J. E. von |date= 1891 |title= Die Zweiflugler des Kaiserlichen Museums zu Wien. V. Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Muscaria Schizometopa (exclusive Anthomyidae) |journal= F. Tempsky, Wien|pages= 142}}
• Lidella De Galdo, 1856
• Lidella Rondani, 1859{{cite book |last1=Rondani |first1=C. |title=Dipterologiae Italicae prodromus. Vol: III. Species Italicae ... Pars secunda. Muscidae Siphoninae et (partim) Tachininae. |date=1859 |publisher=A. Stocchi |location=Parmae [= Parma] |pages=243 + [1] pp |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34111#page/9/mode/1up |access-date=6 December 2020}}
• Lydelloxenis Mesnil, 1956
• Metagonistylum Townsend, 1927{{cite journal |last1=Townsend |first1=C.H.T. |title=Synopse dos generos muscoideos da regiao humida tropical da America, con generos e especies novas |journal=Revista do Museu Paulista |date=1927 |volume=15 |pages=203–385 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48484478#page/270/mode/1up |access-date=9 June 2023}}
• Metoposisyrops Townsend, 1916{{cite journal |last= Townsend|first= Charles Henry Tyler|date= 1916|title= New genera and species of muscoid flies |url=http://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/14590/1/USNMP-51_2152_1916.pdf |journal= Proceedings of the United States National Museum|volume= 51 |issue= 2152|pages=299–323 |doi= 10.5479/si.00963801.2152.299}}
• Paraphorocera Brauer & von Berganstamm, 1889{{cite journal |last1=Brauer |first1=F. |last2=Bergenstamm |first2=J.E. von |title=Die Zweiflugler des Kaiserlichen Museums zu Wien. IV. Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Muscaria Schizometopa (exclusive Anthomyidae) |journal=Pars I. Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien |date=1889 |volume=56 |issue=1 |pages=69–180, 11 pls|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7109187#page/115/mode/1up |access-date=8 June 2023}}
• Zorella Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863{{cite book |last1=Robineau-Desvoidy |first1=J.B. |title=Histoire naturelle des diptères des environs de Paris. Tome premiere |date=1863 |publisher=Masson et Fils |location=Paris |pages=xii + 1143}}

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Lydella is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae. Lydella thompsoni can be used in the UK for the biological control of the European corn borer.{{cite web|url=http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/aeru/bpdb/Reports/2251.htm|title=Lydella thompsoni|first=University of|last=Hertfordshire|website=sitem.herts.ac.uk}}{{cite journal | last1 = O'Hara | first1 = James E. | last2 = Shima | first2 = Hiroshi | last3 = Zhang |first3 = Chuntian | year = 2009 | title = Annotated Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 2190 | pages = 1–236 | location = Auckland, New Zealand | publisher = Magnolia Press | doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.2190.1.1 | issn = 1175-5334 | accessdate = 2011-02-24 | url = http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/zt02190p236.pdf | doi-access = free }}{{cite web |last1=O’Hara |first1=James E. |last2=Shannon |first2=J. Henderson |last3=D. Monty |first3=Wood |title=World Checklist of the Tachinidae |url=http://www.nadsdiptera.org/Tach/WorldTachs/Checklist/Tachchlist_ver2.1.pdf |website=Tachinidae Resources |access-date=28 February 2022 |date=5 March 2020}}{{cite book | last = Chandler | first = Peter J. | year = 1998 | title = Checklists of Insects of the British Isles (New Series) Part 1: Diptera | series = Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects | volume = 12 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–234 | isbn = 0-901546-82-8 | publisher = Royal Entomological Society of London | location = London }}{{cite web | url = http://www.bio-nica.info/biblioteca/OHara2004Tachinidae.pdf | title = Checklist Of The Tachinidae (Diptera) Of America North Of Mexico | last1 = O'Hara | first1 = James E. | last2 = Wood | first2 = D. Monty | date = 28 January 2004 | publisher = Biodiversidad de Nicaragua | location = Nicaragua | pages = 1–42 }}