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.[3][4]

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]
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References

  1. 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. 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. 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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