Dinera ferina (Fallen) is a species of fly in the family Tachinidae.James E. O'Hara, Hiroshi Shima, & Chuntian Zhang. "Annotated Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China." Zootaxa 2190 (2009): 1-236. In June 2018, the Bulletin of Insectology wrote that Dinera ferina was "confirmed to be a parasitoid of larvae of the two Italian Platycerus species, Platycerus caprea (De Geer) and Platycerus caraboides (L.) (Coleoptera Lucanidae)."Scaccini, Davide. “Remarks on the Biology of Dinera Ferina (Diptera Tachinidae) as Parasitoid of the Two Italian Platycerus Species (Coleoptera Lucanidae).” BULLETIN OF INSECTOLOGY, vol. 71, no. 1, pp. 39–43.
Distribution Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, Russia, Transcaucasia, China.
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