Acemyini

Acemyini is a small but cosmopolitan tribe of flies in the family Tachinidae.^[2][3] Like all tachinid flies, acemyiines are parasitoids of other invertebrates. Specifically, the acemyiines are parasitoids of Orthoptera in the families Acrididae and Eumastacidae.^[4]

Acemyini
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Tachinidae
Subfamily:	Exoristinae
Tribe:	Acemyini Brauer & von Bergenstamm, 1889[1]

Identification

The Acemyiini have a distinctive pattern of scutellar bristling among the Tachinidae, comprising three pairs of very strong setae; one pair of crossed apical setae, a diverging subapical pair set unusually far forwards, and a basal pair which may be approximately parallel or converging. Most species have a long series of proclinate orbital setae in both sexes. The basal node of vein R4+5 in acemyiines has one pair of very long setulae - one on each surface of the wing - which is uncommon in the Goniinae.^[4]

Genera

• Acemya Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830^[5]
• Atlantomyia Crosskey, 1977^[6]
• Ceracia Rondani, 1865^[7]
• Charitella Mesnil, 1957^[8]
• Eoacemyia Townsend, 1926^[9]
• Hygiella Mesnil, 1957^[8]
• Metacemyia Herting, 1969^[10]

References

1. Brauer, F.; Bergenstamm, J. E. von (1889). "Die Zweiflugler des Kaiserlichen Museums zu Wien. IV. Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Muscaria Schizometopa (exclusive Anthomyidae).Pars I". Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 56 (1): 69–180. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
2. 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.
3. James E. O'Hara; Hiroshi Shima & Chuntian Zhang (2009). "Annotated catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2190: 1–236. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2190.1.1.
4. Crosskey, Roger Ward (1973). "A conspectus of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of Australia, including keys to the supraspecific taxa and taxonomic and host catalogues". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology Supplement. 21. London: 1–221. doi:10.5962/p.193226. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
5. Robineau-Desvoidy, André Jean Baptiste (1830). "Essai sur les myodaires". Mémoires presentés à l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, par divers savants et lus dans ses assemblées: Sciences, Mathématiques et Physique. 2 (2): 1–813. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
6. Crosskey, R.W. (1977). "La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène. Troisième partie. Fam. Tachinidae. Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sér. in-8°". Sciences Zoologiques. 215 [1976]: 144–152.
7. Rondani, Camillo (1865). "Diptera Italica non vel minus cognita descripta vel annotata observationibus nonnullis additis. Fasc. I. Oestridae-Syrphidae-Conopidae; Fasc. II. Muscidae". Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano. 8: 127–146. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
8. Mesnil, L.P. (1957). "Nouveaux tachinaires d'Orient. (Deuxième série.)". Mémoires de la Société Royale d'Entomologie de Belgique. 28 (1–80).
9. Townsend, C.H.T. (1926). "New muscoid flies of the Oriental, Australian, and African faunas". Philippine Journal of Science. 29: 529–544.
10. Herting, B. (1969). "Notes on European Tachinidae (Dipt.) described by Rondani (1856–1868)". Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana. 48: 189–204.