Oswaldia
Encyclopedia
Oswaldia is a genus of flies
in the family Tachinidae
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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 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...
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Species
- O. albifacies (Townsend, 1908)
- O. anorbitalis (Brooks, 1945)
- O. apicalis (Mesnil, 1957)
- O. assimilis (Townsend, 1919)
- O. aurifrons (Townsend, 1908)
- O. conica (Reinhard, 1934)
- O. eggeri (BrauerFriedrich Moritz BrauerFriedrich Moritz Brauer . An Austrian entomologist who was Director of the Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum, Vienna, at the time of his death...
& von Bergenstamm, 1889) - O. gilva Shima, 1991
- O. glauca Shima, 1991
- O. hirsuta Mesnil, 1970
- O. illiberis Chao & Zhou, 1998
- O. issikii (Baranov, 1935)
- O. minor (CurranCharles Howard CurranCharles Howard Curran was an Canadian entomologist who specialised in Diptera....
, 1925) - O. muscaria (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....
, 1810) - O. reducta (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...
, 1930) - O. sartura (Reinhard, 1959)
- O. spectabilis (MeigenJohann Wilhelm MeigenJohann Wilhelm Meigen was a German entomologist famous for his pioneering work on Diptera.-Early years:Meigen was born in Solingen, the fifth of eight children of Johann Clemens Meigen and Sibylla Margaretha Bick. His parents, though not poor, were not wealthy either. The ran a small shop in...
, 1824) - O. valida (CurranCharles Howard CurranCharles Howard Curran was an Canadian entomologist who specialised in Diptera....
, 1927)