Icosta
Encyclopedia
Icosta are genus
of biting flies
in the family
of louse flies, Hippoboscidae
. There are 52 known species, making it the largest Hippoboscid genus. All species are Parasites
of bird
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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 biting 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...
of louse flies, Hippoboscidae
Hippoboscidae
Hippoboscidae, the louse flies or keds are obligate parasites of mammals and birds. In this family there are winged species which can fly at least reasonably well, as well as others with vestigial or no wings which are flightless and highly apomorphic...
. There are 52 known species, making it the largest Hippoboscid genus. All species are Parasites
Parasitism
Parasitism is a type of symbiotic relationship between organisms of different species where one organism, the parasite, benefits at the expense of the other, the host. Traditionally parasite referred to organisms with lifestages that needed more than one host . These are now called macroparasites...
of bird
Bird
Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...
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Systematics
- Genus Icosta SpeiserPaul Gustav Eduard SpeiserPaul Gustav Eduard Speiser was a German entomologist who specialised in Diptera.He was first a physician then a Medizinalrat, a medical adviser to a district.He worked on world Diptera, especially...
, 1905 - Subgenus Ardmoeca
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- I. albipennis (SayThomas SayThomas Say was an American naturalist, entomologist, malacologist, herpetologist and carcinologist. A taxonomist, he is often considered to be the father of descriptive entomology in the United States. He described more than 1,000 new species of beetles and over 400 species of insects of other...
, 1823) - I. ardae ardae (MacquartJustin Pierre Marie MacquartJustin Pierre Marie Macquart was a French entomologist specialising in the study of Diptera. He worked on world species as well as European and described many new species.-Early years:...
, 1835)
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- I. ardae botaurinorum (Swenk, 1916)
- I. holoptera holoptera (LutzAdolfo LutzAdolfo Lutz was a Brazilian physician, 1855-1940, father of tropical medicine and medical zoology in Brazil, and a pioneer epidemiologist and researcher in infectious diseases....
, 1915)
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- I. holoptera omnisetosa Maa, 1969
- I. macclurei Maa, 1969
- I. massonnati (Falcoz, 1926)
- I. schoutedeni (BequaertJoseph Charles BequaertJoseph Charles Bequaert was an American naturalist of Belgian origin, born 24 May 1886 in Torhout and died on 12 January 1982 in Amherst ....
, 1945)- Subgenus Gypoeca
- I. meda (Maa, 1963)
- Subgenus Icosta
- I. acromialis acromialis (SpeiserPaul Gustav Eduard SpeiserPaul Gustav Eduard Speiser was a German entomologist who specialised in Diptera.He was first a physician then a Medizinalrat, a medical adviser to a district.He worked on world Diptera, especially...
, 1904)
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- I. acromialis tuberculata (Ferris, 1927)
- I. bicorna (Ferris, 1927)
- I. bucerotina Maa, 1969
- I. chalcolampra (SpeiserPaul Gustav Eduard SpeiserPaul Gustav Eduard Speiser was a German entomologist who specialised in Diptera.He was first a physician then a Medizinalrat, a medical adviser to a district.He worked on world Diptera, especially...
, 1904) - I. coalescens (Maa, 1964)
- I. corvina Maa, 1969
- I. diluta Maa, 1969
- I. dioxyrhina (SpeiserPaul Gustav Eduard SpeiserPaul Gustav Eduard Speiser was a German entomologist who specialised in Diptera.He was first a physician then a Medizinalrat, a medical adviser to a district.He worked on world Diptera, especially...
, 1904) - I. elbeli Maa, 1969
- I. fenestella Maa, 1969
- I. humilis Maa, 1969
- I. jactatrix Maa, 1969
- I. longipalpis (MacquartJustin Pierre Marie MacquartJustin Pierre Marie Macquart was a French entomologist specialising in the study of Diptera. He worked on world species as well as European and described many new species.-Early years:...
, 1835) - I. malagasii Maa, 1969
- I. mecorrhina (Maa, 1964)
- I. plana (WalkerJames John Walker (entomologist)John James Walker was an English entomologist.Walker was a marine engineer trained at the Royal Navy dockyard in Sheerness and voyaged around most of the world, collecting insects when on land....
, 1861) - I. recessa (Maa, 1964)
- I. samoana (Ferris, 1927)
- I. spinosa Maa, 1969
- I. subdentata Maa, 1969
- I. tarsata Maa, 1969
- I. trita (SpeiserPaul Gustav Eduard SpeiserPaul Gustav Eduard Speiser was a German entomologist who specialised in Diptera.He was first a physician then a Medizinalrat, a medical adviser to a district.He worked on world Diptera, especially...
, 1905) - I. wenzeli Maa, 1969
- Subgenus Ornithoponus Aldrich, 1923
- I. americana (LeachWilliam Elford LeachWilliam Elford Leach FRS was an English zoologist and marine biologist.Leach was born at Hoe Gate, Plymouth, the son of a solicitor. At the age of twelve he went to school in Exeter, studying anatomy and chemistry. By this time he was already collecting marine samples from Plymouth Sound and along...
, 1817) - I. angustifrons (van der Wulp, 1903)
- I. antica Maa, 1969
- I. australica (Paramonov, 1954)
- I. dukei (AustenErnest Edward AustenErnest Edward Austen was an English entomologist specialising in Diptera and Hymenoptera.His collection of Amazon and Sierra Leone insects is in the Natural History Museum, London....
, 1911) - I. hirsuta (Ferris, 1927)
- I. latifacies (BequaertJoseph Charles BequaertJoseph Charles Bequaert was an American naturalist of Belgian origin, born 24 May 1886 in Torhout and died on 12 January 1982 in Amherst ....
, 1955) - I. lonchurae Maa, 1969
- I. maquilingensis (Ferris, 1924)
- I. minor (BigotJacques-Marie-Frangile BigotJacques Marie Frangile Bigot was a French naturalist and entomologist most noted for his studies of Diptera. Born in Paris, where he lived all his life, though he had a small house in Quincy-sous-Sénart, Essonne.He became a member of the Entomological Society of France in 1844. His first paper...
in ThomsonCarl Gustaf ThomsonCarl Gustaf Thomson was a Swedish entomologist.Thomson became a student in the University of Lund in 1843 , graduated in 1850 and became associate professor of zoology there in 1857...
, 1858) - I. nigra (Perty, 1833)
- I. papulata Maa, 1969
- I. parallelifrons (SpeiserPaul Gustav Eduard SpeiserPaul Gustav Eduard Speiser was a German entomologist who specialised in Diptera.He was first a physician then a Medizinalrat, a medical adviser to a district.He worked on world Diptera, especially...
, 1902) - I. paramonovi Maa, 1969
- I. plaumanni (BequaertJoseph Charles BequaertJoseph Charles Bequaert was an American naturalist of Belgian origin, born 24 May 1886 in Torhout and died on 12 January 1982 in Amherst ....
, 1943) - I. rufiventris (BigotJacques-Marie-Frangile BigotJacques Marie Frangile Bigot was a French naturalist and entomologist most noted for his studies of Diptera. Born in Paris, where he lived all his life, though he had a small house in Quincy-sous-Sénart, Essonne.He became a member of the Entomological Society of France in 1844. His first paper...
, 1885) - I. sensilis sensilis Maa, 1969
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- I. sensilis reducta Maa, 1969
- I. simplex (WalkerJames John Walker (entomologist)John James Walker was an English entomologist.Walker was a marine engineer trained at the Royal Navy dockyard in Sheerness and voyaged around most of the world, collecting insects when on land....
, 1861) - I. suvaensis (BequaertJoseph Charles BequaertJoseph Charles Bequaert was an American naturalist of Belgian origin, born 24 May 1886 in Torhout and died on 12 January 1982 in Amherst ....
, 1941) - I. tripelta (Maa, 1964)
- I. zumpti (Maa, 1964)
- Subgenus Rhyponotum
- I. pilosa (MacquartJustin Pierre Marie MacquartJustin Pierre Marie Macquart was a French entomologist specialising in the study of Diptera. He worked on world species as well as European and described many new species.-Early years:...
, 1843)
- I. albipennis (Say
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