Acemyini Explained

Acemyini is a small but cosmopolitan tribe of flies in the family Tachinidae.^{[1] [2]} Like all tachinid flies, acemyiines are parasitoids of other invertebrates. Specifically, the acemyiines are parasitoids of Orthoptera in the families Acrididae and Eumastacidae.^[3]

Identification

The Acemyiini have a distinctive pattern of scutellar bristling among the Tachinidae, comprising three pairs of very strong setae; one pair of crossed apical setae, a diverging subapical pair set unusually far forwards, and a basal pair which may be approximately parallel or converging. Most species have a long series of proclinate orbital setae in both sexes. The basal node of vein R4+5 in acemyiines has one pair of very long setulae - one on each surface of the wing - which is uncommon in the Goniinae.

Genera

• Acemya Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830^[4]
• Atlantomyia Crosskey, 1977^[5]
• Ceracia Rondani, 1865^[6]
• Charitella Mesnil, 1957^[7]
• Eoacemyia Townsend, 1926^[8]
• Hygiella Mesnil, 1957^[7]
• Metacemyia Herting, 1969^[9]

Notes and References

1. Web site: O’Hara . James E. . Shannon . J. Henderson . D. Monty . Wood . World Checklist of the Tachinidae . Tachinidae Resources . 28 February 2022 . 5 March 2020.
2. James E. O'Hara . Hiroshi Shima . Chuntian Zhang . amp . 2009 . Annotated catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China . . 2190 . 1–236 . 10.11646/zootaxa.2190.1.1 . free .
3. Crosskey . Roger Ward . A conspectus of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of Australia, including keys to the supraspecific taxa and taxonomic and host catalogues . Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology Supplement . 1973 . 21 . 1–221 . 14 March 2022 . London. 10.5962/p.193226 .
4. Robineau-Desvoidy . André Jean Baptiste . Essai sur les myodaires . Mémoires presentés à l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, par divers savants et lus dans ses assemblées: Sciences, Mathématiques et Physique . 1830 . 2 . 2 . 1–813 . 15 July 2018.
5. Crosskey . R.W. . La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène. Troisième partie. Fam. Tachinidae. Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sér. in-8° . Sciences Zoologiques . 1977 . 215 [1976] . 144–152.
6. Rondani . Camillo . Diptera Italica non vel minus cognita descripta vel annotata observationibus nonnullis additis. Fasc. I. Oestridae-Syrphidae-Conopidae; Fasc. II. Muscidae . Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano . 1865 . 8 . 127–146 . 23 July 2021.
7. Mesnil . L.P. . Nouveaux tachinaires d'Orient. (Deuxième série.) . Mémoires de la Société Royale d'Entomologie de Belgique . 1957 . 28 . 1–80.
8. Townsend . C.H.T. . New muscoid flies of the Oriental, Australian, and African faunas . Philippine Journal of Science . 1926 . 29 . 529–544.
9. Herting . B. . Notes on European Tachinidae (Dipt.) described by Rondani (1856–1868) . Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana . 1969 . 48 . 189–204.