Calolydella Explained

Calolydella is a genus of parasitoid flies in the family Tachinidae.^[1] This genus has been shown to primarily parasitize multiple species of caterpillars across a wide variety of families (Lepidoptera: Crambidae; Erebidae; Geometridae; Hesperiidae; Lycaenidae; Nymphalidae; Pieridae; Riodinidae; and Sphingidae).^{[2] [3]}

Species

• Calolydella adelinamoralesae Fleming & Wood, 2018^[2]
• Calolydella alexanderjamesi Fleming & Wood, 2018^[2]
• Calolydella andinensis (Townsend, 1927)
• Calolydella argentea Fleming & Wood, 2018^[2]
• Calolydella aureofacies Fleming & Wood, 2018^[2]
• Calolydella bicolor Fleming & Wood, 2018^[2]
• Calolydella bifissus Fleming & Wood, 2018^[2]
• Calolydella blandita (Wulp, 1890)^[4]
• Calolydella cingulata (Schiner, 1868)
• Calolydella concinna (Wulp, 1890)^[4]
• Calolydella crocata Fleming & Wood, 2018^[2]
• Calolydella cylindriventris (Wulp, 1890)^[4]
• Calolydella destituta Fleming & Wood, 2018^[2]
• Calolydella discalis Fleming & Wood, 2018^[2]
• Calolydella erasmocoronadoi Fleming & Wood, 2018^[2]
• Calolydella felipechavarriai Fleming & Wood, 2018^[2]
• Calolydella fredriksjobergi Fleming & Wood, 2018^[2]
• Calolydella geminata Townsend, 1927
• Calolydella gentica (Walker, 1860)
• Calolydella inflatipalpis Fleming & Wood, 2018^[2]
• Calolydella interrupta Fleming & Wood, 2018^[2]
• Calolydella lathami (Curran, 1925)^[5]
• Calolydella leucophaea (Wulp, 1890)^[4]
• Calolydella nigripalpis Fleming & Wood, 2018^[2]
• Calolydella omissa Fleming & Wood, 2018^[2]
• Calolydella ordinalis Fleming & Wood, 2018^[2]
• Calolydella peruviana (Townsend, 1927)
• Calolydella renemalaisei Fleming & Wood, 2018^[2]
• Calolydella rufiventris (Townsend, 1927)
• Calolydella summatis Reinhard, 1975
• Calolydella susanaroibasae Fleming & Wood, 2018^[2]
• Calolydella tanyadapkeyae Fleming & Wood, 2018^[2]
• Calolydella tenebrosa Fleming & Wood, 2018^[2]
• Calolydella timjamesi Fleming & Wood, 2018^[2]
• Calolydella triangulifera (Bigot, 1889)
• Calolydella trifasciata (Walker, 1837)
• Calolydella virginiajamesae Fleming & Wood, 2018^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: O’Hara . James E. . Henderson . Shannon J. . D. Monty . Wood . Preliminary Checklist of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of the World. Tachinidae Resources . 28 February 2022 . 5 March 2020.
2. Fleming. AJ. Wood. D. Monty. Smith. M. Alex. Hallwachs. Winnie. Janzen. Daniel. 2018-02-02. Revision of the Mesoamerican species of Calolydella Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae) and description of twenty-three new species reared from caterpillars in Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica. Biodiversity Data Journal . en . 6 . 6 . e11223 . 10.3897/bdj.6.e11223 . 29674932 . 1314-2828 . 5904339 . free .
3. Web site: Checklist Of The Tachinidae (Diptera) Of America North Of Mexico . O'Hara . James E. . Wood . D. Monty . 28 January 2004 . Biodiversidad de Nicaragua . Nicaragua . 1–42.
4. Wulp. F. M. van der . 1890 . Family Muscidae . Biologia Centrali-Americana :zoology, Botany and Archaeology . 2 . 186–204 . 20 February 2015.
5. Curran . C.H. . Some apparently new Nearctic Tachinidae (Diptera) . Canadian Entomologist . 1925 . 57 . 281–286.