Catharosia
Encyclopedia
Catharosia is a genus
of flies
in the family
Tachinidae
.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of flies
Fly
True flies are insects of the order Diptera . They possess a pair of wings on the mesothorax and a pair of halteres, derived from the hind wings, on the metathorax...
in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Tachinidae
Tachinidae
Tachinidae is a large and rather variable family of true flies within the insect order Diptera, with more than 8,200 known species and many more to be discovered. There are over 1300 species in North America. Insects in this family are commonly called tachina flies or simply tachinids...
.
Species
- C. albisquama (VilleneuveJoseph Th.Villeneuve de JantiJoseph Villeneuve de Janti Was a French entomologist who specialised inDiptera .He worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in the same city.As well as naming many new taxa Villeneuve made many significant contributions to medical entomology.He...
, 1932) - C. calva (CoquillettDaniel William CoquillettDaniel William Coquillett was an American entomologist who specialised in Diptera. He wrote Revision of the dipterous family Therevidae...
, 1910) - C. claripennis Kugler, 1977
- C. flavicornis (ZetterstedtJohan Wilhelm ZetterstedtJohan Wilhelm Zetterstedt was a Swedish naturalist who worked mainly on Diptera and Hymenoptera.-Biography:Zetterstedt studied at the University of Lund, where he was a pupil of Anders Jahan Retzius. He received the title of professor in 1822 and succeeded Carl Adolph Agardh as professor of botany...
, 1859) - C. frontalis (Smith, 1917)
- C. lustrans (Reinhard, 1944)
- C. minuta (Townsend, 1915)
- C. nebulosa (CoquillettDaniel William CoquillettDaniel William Coquillett was an American entomologist who specialised in Diptera. He wrote Revision of the dipterous family Therevidae...
, 1897) - C. pygmaea (FallénCarl Fredrik FallénCarl Fredrik Fallén was a Swedish botanist and entomologist.Fallén taught at the Lund University. He wrote Diptera Sueciae .In 1817, Fallen discovered the Muscina stabulans species of flies....
, 1815)