Biology:Calodexia

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Calodexia
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Subfamily: Exoristinae
Tribe: Blondeliini
Genus: Calodexia
Wulp, 1891[1]
Type species
Calodexia majuscula
Wulp, 1891[1]
Synonyms
  • Chaetonalia Curran, 1934[2]
  • Eucalodexia Townsend, 1938
  • Euoestrogaster Townsend, 1935
  • Euoestrogastrodes Townsend, 1935
  • Monoestrogaster Townsend, 1939
  • Ommaleskia Townsend, 1917
  • Parathelaira Townsend, 1919

Calodexia is a Neotropical genus of parasitic flies in the family Tachinidae. Females follow columns of army ants, apparently waiting for cockroaches to be flushed from hiding.[3][4]

Species

  • Calodexia agilis Curran, 1934[5]
  • Calodexia aldrichi Curran, 1934[5]
  • Calodexia apicalis Curran, 1934[5]
  • Calodexia bella Curran, 1934[5]
  • Calodexia bequaerti Curran, 1934[5]
  • Calodexia bigoti Nihei & Dios, 2016
  • Calodexia callani Thompson, 1968
  • Calodexia caudata Curran, 1934[5]
  • Calodexia continua Curran, 1934[5]
  • Calodexia dives Curran, 1934[5]
  • Calodexia fasciata Curran, 1934[5]
  • Calodexia flavescens (Townsend, 1935)
  • Calodexia flavicornis (Wulp, 1890)[6]
  • Calodexia flavipes (Schiner, 1868)
  • Calodexia fulvibasis Curran, 1934[5]
  • Calodexia fumosa (Townsend, 1912)
  • Calodexia fuscus (Townsend, 1935)
  • Calodexia globosa (Reinhard, 1953)
  • Calodexia grata (Wulp, 1890)[6]
  • Calodexia insolita Curran, 1934[5]
  • Calodexia interrupta Curran, 1934[5]
  • Calodexia lateralis (Curran, 1934)[5]
  • Calodexia major Curran, 1934[5]
  • Calodexia majuscula Wulp, 1891[1]
  • Calodexia mattoensis (Townsend, 1939)
  • Calodexia mexicana (Townsend, 1915)
  • Calodexia neofumosa Nihei & Dios, 2016
  • Calodexia nigripes Thompson, 1968
  • Calodexia panamensis Curran, 1934[5]
  • Calodexia panamensis (Townsend, 1919)
  • Calodexia peponis (Reinhard, 1953)
  • Calodexia rubripes Thompson, 1968
  • Calodexia scurra (Wulp, 1890)[6]
  • Calodexia signata (Wulp, 1890)[7]
  • Calodexia similis (Townsend, 1915)[6]
  • Calodexia strigosa (Wulp, 1890)[6]
  • Calodexia townsendi Curran, 1934[5]
  • Calodexia valera Curran, 1934[5]
  • Calodexia varia Curran, 1934[5]
  • Calodexia venteris Curran, 1934[5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Van der Wulp, Frederick Maurit (1891). "Eenige uitlandsche Diptera". Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 34: 193–217. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10863151#page/331/mode/1up. Retrieved 21 April 2020. 
  2. Curran, C.H. (1934). The families and genera of North American Diptera. New York: Ballou Press. pp. 512 pp. + 2 pls. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29874#page/9/mode/1up. Retrieved 24 March 2022. 
  3. Wood, D. M. (1985). "A Taxonomic Conspectus of the Blondeliini of North and Central America and the West Indies (Diptera: Tachinidae)". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 117 (S132). doi:10.4039/entm117132fv. 
  4. O’Hara, James E.; Shannon, J. Henderson; D. Monty, Wood (5 March 2020). "World Checklist of the Tachinidae". http://www.nadsdiptera.org/Tach/WorldTachs/Checklist/Tachchlist_ver2.1.pdf. 
  5. 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 5.16 5.17 5.18 Curran, C.H. (1934). "Review of the tachinid genus Calodexia van der Wulp (Diptera)". American Museum Novitates 685: 1–21. https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/2081//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/nov/N0685.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y. Retrieved 4 April 2022. 
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Wulp, F.M. van der (1890). Fam. Muscidae. Pp. 113–144 + pl. 3. [Cont.] In: Godman, F.D. and Salvin, O., eds., Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. Zoologia. Class Insecta. Order Diptera. Vol. II. [1888–1903.]. London: Taylor & Francis. pp. 489 pp + 13 pls. 
  7. Wulp, F.M. van der. (1890). Fam. Muscidae. Pp. 177–200. [Cont.] In: Godman, F.D. and Salvin, O., eds., Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. Zoologia. Class Insecta. Order Diptera. Vol. II. [1888–1903.]. London: Taylor & Francis. pp. 489 pp + 13 pls.. 

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