Trichopoda

{{short description|Genus of tachinid flies}}

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| image = Trichopoda pennipes.jpg

| image_caption = Trichopoda pennipes

| taxon = Trichopoda

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| authority = Berthold, 1827{{cite book |last1=Berthold |first1=A.A. |title=Latreille's Naturliche Familien des Thierreichs. Aus dem Franzosischen. Mit Anmerkungen und Zusatzen |date=1827 |publisher=Gr.H. S. priv. Landes=Industrie |location=Weimar |pages=x + 606 pp}}

| type_species = Thereva plumipes

| type_species_authority = Fabricius, 1805{{cite book |last1=Fabricius |first1=Johann Christian |title=Systema antliatorum secundum ordines, genera, species |date=1805 |publisher=Apud Carolum Reichard |location=Bransvigae |pages=i-xiv, 1–373| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53432#page/9/mode/1up |accessdate=5 June 2020}}

| subdivision_ranks = Subgenera

| subdivision = *Galactomyia Townsend, 1908{{cite journal |last1=Townsend |first1=C.H.T. |title=The taxonomy of the muscoidean flies, including descriptions of new genera and species |journal=Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections |date=1908 |volume=51 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25140423#page/125/mode/1up |access-date=9 June 2023}}

• Trichopoda Berthold, 1827

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File:Trichopoda plumipes. goldenrod.jpg on goldenrod]]

File:Tachinid fly attack.webm with Tachinid fly eggs attached and a feather-legged tachinid fly, probably Trichopoda pennipes, quickly depositing another egg on it.]]

Trichopoda is a genus of tachinid flies, commonly known as the feather-legged flies or hairy-legged flies. They are small, brightly coloured flies that congregate on flowers, feeding on nectar. The halteres are covered with yellow scales and there is a fringe of flattened hairs on the hind legs. The larvae are parasitoids of true bugs in the order Hemiptera, including stink bugs in the family Pentatomidae and leaf-footed bugs and squash bugs in the family Coreidae.[http://bugguide.net/node/view/2798 BugGuide]{{Cite book |last=Arnaud Jr, Paul H. |title=A Host-Parasite Catalog of North American Tachinidae (Diptera) |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |year=1978 |location=Washington, D.C. |page=860 pp}} They are found in North and South America.{{cite journal |last1=Dios |first1=R.V.P. |last2=Nihei |first2=S.S. |title=Taxonomic revision of the genus Trichopoda Berthold, 1827 (Diptera: Tachinidae: Phasiinae), with emphasis on the Neotropical fauna |journal=Zootaxa |date=2020 |volume=4870 |issue=1 |pages=zootaxa.4870.1.1 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4870.1.1 |pmid=33311339 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/345323977 |access-date=3 September 2023}}{{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}}