Calodexia

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.^[11][12]

Calodexia
Scientific classification
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
Calothelaira Townsend, 1927[2] Chaetonalia Curran, 1934[3] Eucalodexia Townsend, 1908[4] Euoestrogaster Townsend, 1935[5] Euoestrogastrodes Townsend, 1935[5] Monoestrogaster Townsend, 1939[6] Nicetria Reinhard, 1953 Oestrogaster Townsend, 1912[7] Oestrogastrodes Townsend, 1915[8] Oestrogastropsis Townsend, 1915[8] Ommaleskia Townsend, 1917[9] Parathelaira Townsend, 1919[10]

Species

• Calodexia agilis Curran, 1934^[13]
• Calodexia aldrichi Curran, 1934^[13]
• Calodexia apicalis Curran, 1934^[13]
• Calodexia bella Curran, 1934^[13]
• Calodexia bequaerti Curran, 1934^[13]
• Calodexia bigoti Nihei & Dios, 2016
• Calodexia callani Thompson, 1968^[14]
• Calodexia caudata Curran, 1934^[13]
• Calodexia continua Curran, 1934^[13]
• Calodexia dives Curran, 1934^[13]
• Calodexia fasciata Curran, 1934^[13]
• Calodexia flavescens (Townsend, 1935)
• Calodexia flavicornis (Wulp, 1890)^[15]
• Calodexia flavipes (Schiner, 1868)
• Calodexia fulvibasis Curran, 1934^[13]
• Calodexia fumosa (Townsend, 1912)
• Calodexia fuscus (Townsend, 1935)
• Calodexia globosa (Reinhard, 1953)
• Calodexia grata (Wulp, 1890)^[15]
• Calodexia insolita Curran, 1934^[13]
• Calodexia interrupta Curran, 1934^[13]
• Calodexia lateralis (Curran, 1934)^[13]
• Calodexia major Curran, 1934^[13]
• Calodexia majuscula Wulp, 1891^[1]
• Calodexia mattoensis (Townsend, 1939)
• Calodexia mexicana (Townsend, 1915)
• Calodexia neofumosa Nihei & Dios, 2016
• Calodexia nigripes Thompson, 1968^[14]
• Calodexia panamensis Curran, 1934^[13]
• Calodexia panamensis (Townsend, 1919)
• Calodexia peponis (Reinhard, 1953)
• Calodexia rubripes Thompson, 1968^[14]
• Calodexia scurra (Wulp, 1890)^[15]
• Calodexia signata (Wulp, 1890)^[16]
• Calodexia similis (Townsend, 1915)^[15]
• Calodexia strigosa (Wulp, 1890)^[15]
• Calodexia townsendi Curran, 1934^[13]
• Calodexia valera Curran, 1934^[13]
• Calodexia varia Curran, 1934^[13]
• Calodexia venteris Curran, 1934^[13]

References

1. Van der Wulp, Frederick Maurit (1891). "Eenige uitlandsche Diptera". Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 34: 193–217. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
2. Townsend, C.H.T. (1927). "Synopse dos generos muscoideos da regiao humida tropical da America, con generos e especies novas". Revista do Museu Paulista. 15: 203–385. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
3. Curran, Charles Howard (1934). The families and genera of North American Diptera. New York: Ballou Press. pp. 512 pp. 2 pls.
4. Townsend, C.H.T. (1908). "The taxonomy of the muscoidean flies, including descriptions of new genera and species". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 51. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
5. Townsend, C.H.T. (1935). "New South American Oestroidea (Dipt.)". Revista de Entomologia. 5: 216–233.
6. Townsend, C.H.T. (1939). "Seven new genera of Brazilian oestromuscarian flies". Revista de Entomologia. 10: 446–452.
7. Townsend, C.H.T. (1912). "Description of new genera and species of muscoid flies from the Andean and Pacific Coast regions of South America" (PDF). Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus. 43 (1935): 301–367. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.1935.301. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
8. Townsend, C.H.T. (1915). "New Neotropical muscoid flies". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 49 (2115): 405–440. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.2115.405. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
9. Townsend, C.H.T. (1917). "Second paper on Brazilian Muscoidea collected by Herbert H. Smith" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 37: 221–233. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
10. Rondani, C. (1861). "De genere Dipterorum Neera Desv: Italicis addendes. Nota X.". Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano (1859-60). 2: 183–187, 1 pl.
11. 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): 3–130. doi:10.4039/entm117132fv.
12. 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 3 April 2024.
13. Curran, C.H. (1934). "Review of the tachinid genus Calodexia van der Wulp (Diptera)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (685): 1–21. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
14. Thompson, W.R. (1968). "The tachinids of Trinidad. VIII. Phorocerines". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada. 56: 1–207.
15. 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.
16. 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.