Acantholespesia

Acantholespesia is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.^[3][4]

Acantholespesia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Tachinidae
Subfamily:	Exoristinae
Tribe:	Eryciini
Genus:	Acantholespesia Wood, 1987[1]
Type species
Phorocera comstocki Williston, 1889[2]

Species

• Acantholespesia comstocki (Williston, 1889)^[2]
• Acantholespesia signata (Aldrich & Webber, 1924)^[5]
• Acantholespesia texana (Aldrich & Webber, 1924)^[5]

References

1. Wood, D.M. (1987). "Tachinidae. In: McAlpine, J.F., Peterson, B.V., Shewell, G.E., Teskey, H.J., Vockeroth, J.R. and Wood, D.M., eds., Manual of Nearctic Diptera. Volume 2". Agriculture Canada Monograph. 28: 1193–1269.
2. Williston, S.W. (1889). The dipterous parasites of North American butterflies. Pp. 1912–1924 + pl. 89. In: Scudder, S.H., ed., The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada with special reference to New England. Vol. 3. Published by author, Cambridge. pp. 1775–1958 + pl. 89.
3. O'Hara, James E.; Wood, D. Monty (28 January 2004). "Checklist Of The Tachinidae (Diptera) Of America North Of Mexico" (PDF). Nicaragua: Biodiversidad de Nicaragua. pp. 1–42.
4. O’Hara, James E.; Shannon, J. Henderson; D. Monty, Wood (5 March 2020). "World Checklist of the Tachinidae" (PDF). Tachinidae Resources. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
5. Aldrich, J. M.; Webber, R. T. (1924). "The North American species of parasitic two-winged flies belonging to the genus Phorocera and allied genera". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 63 (17). United States National Museum: 90. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.63-2486.1. hdl:2027/osu.32435000472373.