Bessa harveyi is a species of fly in the family Tachinidae.[3] It is a parasitoid of sawflies, such as Pristiphora erichsonii.[4]

Bessa harveyi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Subfamily: Exoristinae
Tribe: Exoristini
Genus: Bessa
Species:
B. harveyi
Binomial name
Bessa harveyi
(Townsend, 1892)[1]
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Distribution

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United States, Canada.

References

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  1. ^ a b Townsend, C.H.T. (1892). "Notes on North American Tachinidae sens. str. with descriptions of new genera and species. Paper III". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 19: 88–132. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  2. ^ Townsend, C.H.T. (1892). "Notes on North American Tachinidae, with descriptions of new species. Paper VIII". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 19: 284–289. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  3. ^ O’Hara, James E.; Henderson, Shannon J.; Wood, D. Monty (5 March 2020). "Preliminary Checklist of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of the World" (PDF). Tachinidae Resources. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  4. ^ Richmond, James A.; Werner, Richard A.; Drooz, Arnold T. (1995). "Larch sawfly, Pristiphora erichsonii (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) and its parasitoids from Alaska". Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia. 92: 25–28. ISSN 1929-7890.