Calodexia
Scientific classification Edit this 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

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

References

  1. 1 2 3 Van der Wulp, Frederick Maurit (1891). "Eenige uitlandsche Diptera". Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 34: 193–217. 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. 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" (PDF). Tachinidae Resources. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 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.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 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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