Lespesia Explained

Lespesia is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.^[1]

Species

• Lespesia affinis (Townsend, 1927)
• Lespesia afra (Wulp, 1888)^[2]
• Lespesia aletiae (Riley, 1879)^[3]
• Lespesia andina (Bigot, 1888)^[4]
• Lespesia anisotae (Webber, 1930)
• Lespesia anonyma (Riley, 1872)^[5]
• Lespesia apicalis (Wulp, 1890)^[6]
• Lespesia archippivora (Riley, 1871)^[7]
• Lespesia auriceps (Macquart, 1844)^[8]
• Lespesia aurulans (Townsend, 1927)
• Lespesia barbatula (Wulp, 1890)^[9]
• Lespesia bigeminata (Curran, 1927)^[10]
• Lespesia brasiliensis (Townsend, 1917)^[11]
• Lespesia callosamiae Beneway, 1963^[12]
• Lespesia capitis (Townsend, 1915)^[13]
• Lespesia clavipalpis Thompson, 1966^[14]
• Lespesia cuculliae (Webber, 1930)
• Lespesia danai (Townsend, 1940)^[15]
• Lespesia datanarum (Townsend, 1892)^[16]
• Lespesia dubia (Williston, 1889)^[17]
• Lespesia erythrocauda (Curran, 1934)^[18]
• Lespesia euchaetiae (Webber, 1930)
• Lespesia fasciagaster Beneway, 1963^[12]
• Lespesia ferruginea (Reinhard, 1924)^[19]
• Lespesia flavifrons Beneway, 1963^[12]
• Lespesia frenchii (Williston, 1889)^[17]
• Lespesia fulvipalpis (Bigot, 1889)^[20]
• Lespesia grioti (Blanchard, 1963)
• Lespesia halisidotae (Aldrich & Webber, 1924)^[21]
• Lespesia lanei Guimarães, 1983^[22]
• Lespesia laniferae (Webber, 1930)
• Lespesia lata (Wiedemann, 1830)^[23]
• Lespesia leliae Cortés & Campos, 1971^[24]
• Lespesia marginalis (Aldrich & Webber, 1924)^[21]
• Lespesia martinezi (Brèthes, 1917)
• Lespesia melalophae (Allen, 1926)^[25]
• Lespesia mendesi (Townsend, 1940)^[15]
• Lespesia nimia Cortés & Campos, 1971^[24]
• Lespesia obscurus (Bigot, 1857)^[26]
• Lespesia parva Beneway, 1963^[12]
• Lespesia parviteres (Aldrich & Webber, 1924)^[21]
• Lespesia pholi (Webber, 1930)
• Lespesia pilatei (Coquillett, 1897)^[27]
• Lespesia plaumanni Guimarães, 1983^[22]
• Lespesia pollinosa Thompson, 1966^[14]
• Lespesia protoginoi (Blanchard, 1966)
• Lespesia rectinervis (Wulp, 1890)
• Lespesia rileyi (Williston, 1889)^[17]
• Lespesia rubra (Townsend, 1916)
• Lespesia rubripes Sabrosky, 1980^[28]
• Lespesia rufifrons (Röder, 1885)^[29]
• Lespesia rufomaculata (Blanchard, 1963)
• Lespesia samiae (Webber, 1930)
• Lespesia schizurae (Townsend, 1891)^[30]
• Lespesia spitzi Guimarães, 1983^[22]
• Lespesia stonei Sabrosky, 1977^[31]
• Lespesia teixeirai Guimarães, 1983^[22]
• Lespesia testacea (Webber, 1930)
• Lespesia texana (Webber, 1930)
• Lespesia thompsoni O'Hara & Thompson, 2021^[32]
• Lespesia travassosi Guimarães, 1983^[22]
• Lespesia westonia (Webber, 1930)
• Lespesia williamsoni (Blanchard, 1959)
• Lespesia xychus (Walker, 1849)^[33]

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 . 21 August 2023 . 5 March 2020.
2. Wulp . F.M. van der . Fam. Muscidae [part] . Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Diptera . 1888 . 2 . 2–40.
3. Riley . C.V. . Parasites of the cotton worm. . The Canadian Entomologist . 1879 . 11 . 9 . 161–162 . 10.4039/Ent11161-9 . 19 September 2023.
4. Bigot . Jacques Marie Frangile . Diptères nouveaux ou peu connus. 33e partie, XLI: Tachinidae . Annales de la Société Entomologique de France . 1888 . 8 . 77 . 10 January 2021.
5. Riley . C.V. . Fourth annual report on the noxious, beneficial and other insects of the State of Missouri. . Annu. RPT. St. Bd. Agric. Mo. . 1872 . 1871 . 7 (spec. pagination). 1–145.
6. Book: Wulp . F.M. van der . Fam. Muscidae. Pp. 113–144 + pl. 3. [Cont.] In: Godman, F.D. and Salvin, O., eds., Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. Zoologia. Class Insecta. Order Diptera. Vol. II. [1888–1903.] . 1890 . Taylor & Francis . London . 489 pp + 13 pls.
7. Riley . C. . Third annual report on the noxious, beneficial and other insects, of the State of Missouri . Annual Report of the State Board of Agriculture, Missouri . 1871 . 6 [1870] . 1–175.
8. Book: Macquart . P.J.M. . Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Tome deuxième.—3e partie. "1843" . 1844 . Roret . Paris . 304.
9. Wulp . F.M. van der . Fam. Muscidae [part]. . Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Diptera . 1890 . 2 . 89–112.
10. Curran . C.H. . New West Indian Tachinidae . American Museum Novitates . 1927 . 1–15 . 17 March 2022.
11. Townsend . C.H.T. . Second paper on Brazilian Muscoidea collected by Herbert H. Smith . Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History . 1917 . 37 . 221–233 . 30 March 2022.
12. Beneway . D.F. . A revision of the flies of the genus Lespesia (= Achaetoneura) in North America (Diptera: Tachinidae) . University of Kansas Science Bulletin . 1963 . 44 . 627–686.
13. Townsend . C.H.T. . New Neotropical muscoid flies . Proceedings of the United States National Museum . 1915 . 49 . 2115 . 405–440 . 10.5479/si.00963801.2115.405 . 18 March 2022.
14. Thompson . W.R. . The tachinids of Trinidad. VII. The larviparous goniines with broad cheeks (Dipt.Tachinidae) . Studia Entomologica . 1966 . 8 [1965] . 353–434.
15. Townsend . C.H.T. . New oestroid flies from Brazil . Revista de Entomologia . 1940 . 11 . 889–894.
16. Townsend . C.H.T. . Notes on North American Tachinidae, with descriptions of new species. Paper VIII . Transactions of the American Entomological Society . 1892 . 19 . 284–289 . 19 September 2023.
17. Book: Williston . S.W. . The dipterous parasites of North American butterflies. Pp. 1912–1924 + pl. 89. In: Scudder, S.H., ed., The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada with special reference to New England. . 1889 . 3 . 1775–1958 + pl. 89 . Published by author, Cambridge..
18. Curran . C.H. . The Diptera of Kartabo, Bartica District, British Guiana, with descriptions of new species from other British Guiana localities . Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History . 1934 . 66 . 287–532 . 21 February 2021.
19. Reinhard . H.J. . New muscoid Diptera . Entomological News, and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . 1924 . 35 . 269–274 . 11 September 2023.
20. Bigot . J. M. F. . 1889 . Dipteres nouveaux ou peu connus. 34e partie, XLII: Diagnoses de nouvelles especes. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France . 8 . 6 . 253–270 .
21. Aldrich . J. M.. Webber. R. T. . 1924. The North American species of parasitic two-winged flies belonging to the genus Phorocera and allied genera . Proceedings of the United States National Museum. United States National Museum . 63 . 17 . 90 . 10.5479/si.00963801.63-2486.1. 2027/osu.32435000472373 . free .
22. Guimarães . J.H. . Taxonomy of Brazilian flies of the genus Lespesia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Tachinidae) . Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia . 1983 . 35 . 11–30. 10.11606/0031-1049.1983.35.p11-30 . free .
23. Book: Wiedemann . Christian Rudolph Wilhelm . Aussereuropäische Zweiflügelige Insekten . 1830 . 2 . 21 April 2020.
24. Cortés . R. . Campos . L. . Taquinidos de Tarapaca y Antofagasta (Diptera: Tachinidae). Anales de la Universidad del Norte . 8 [1970] . 1971 . 1–104.
25. Allen . H.W . Notes on some North American species of Achaetoneura with a description of one new species (Diptera, Tachinidae) . Transactions of the American Entomological Society . 1926 . 52 . 187–198, 1 pl.
26. Book: Bigot . J.M.F. . Dipteros. Pp. 328-349, pl. 20. In Sagra, R. de la (ed.), Historia fisica, politica y natural de la Isla de Cuba. Segunde parte. Historia natural. Vol. 7 (crustaceos, aragnidos e insectos) . 1857 . A. Bertrand . Paris . xxxii + 371 . 2 February 2021.
27. Coquillett. D.W.. Revision of the Tachinidae of America north of Mexico. A family of parasitic two-winged insects. Technical Series (United States. Division of Entomology) U.S. Dept. Agriculture. 1897. 7. 156 . 28 March 2022.
28. Sabrosky . C.W. . A revised key to the Nearctic species of Lespesia (Diptera: Tachinidae) . Annals of the Entomological Society of America . 1980 . 73 . 63–77. 10.1093/aesa/73.1.63 .
29. Röder . V. von . Dipteren von der Insel Portorico . Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung . 1885 . 46 . 337–349.
30. Townsend . C.H.T. . A tachinid parasite of the oak unicorn prominent . Psyche: A Journal of Entomology . 1891 . 6 . 188 . 187–188 . 10.1155/1891/18414 . free . 11 June 2022.
31. Sabrosky . C.W. . A new Lespesia confused with L. aletiae (Diptera: Tachinidae) . Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington . 1977 . 79 . 142–145 . 19 September 2023.
32. O'Hara . J.E. . Wood . D.M. . González . D.M. . Annotated catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta, Diptera) of Chile . ZooKeys . 2021 . 1064 . 1–200 . 10.3897/zookeys.1064.62972 . free . 34754260 . 8553679 . 2021ZooK.1064....1O . 19 September 2023.
33. Book: Walker . F. . List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part IV.. 1849 . British Museum . London . [3] + 689–1172 + [2]. 20 October 2022.