Pachygaster Explained

Pachygaster is a genus of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.^{[1] [2]}

Pachygaster differ from other Pachygastrinae morphologically in that their wings have separate R4 and R5 radial veins, their scutellum lacks a distinct posterior rim, and the hairs on the sides of their mesonotum are not flattened. ^{[3] [4]}

Species

• Pachygaster annulipes Brunetti, 1920^[5]
• Pachygaster antiquus James, 1971^[6]
• Pachygaster atra (Panzer, 1797)
• Pachygaster characta Kraft & Cook, 1961^[7]
• Pachygaster dorsalis Lindner, 1957^[8]
• Pachygaster emerita Krivosheina & Freidberg, 2004^[9]
• Pachygaster flavimanus Lindner, 1957^[8]
• Pachygaster flavipennis Hull, 1942^[10]
• Pachygaster hymenaea Grund & Hauser, 2005^[11]
• Pachygaster kerteszi Szilády, 1941^[12]
• Pachygaster leachii Curtis, 1824^[13]
• Pachygaster maura Lindner, 1939^[14]
• Pachygaster montana Kraft & Cook, 1961^[7]
• Pachygaster piriventris Rozkošný & Kovac, 1998^[15]
• Pachygaster pulcher Loew, 1863^[16]
• Pachygaster subatra Krivosheina, 2004^[17]
• Pachygaster wirthi James, 1967^[18]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fauna Europaea . https://web.archive.org/web/20131203063027/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=405248 . dead . December 3, 2013 . European Commission . 5 January 2012.
2. Book: Stubbs, A. . Drake, M. . amp . 2001 . British Soldierflies and Their Allies: A Field Guide to the Larger British Brachycera. 512 pp. British Entomological & Natural History Society . 1-899935-04-5.
3. Book: James, Maurice T.. 1981. Manual of Nearctic Diptera. 1:497–511.
4. Woodley . N.E. . A World Catalog of the Stratiomyidae (Diptera) . Myia . 2001 . 11 . 1–462. 7 December 2022.
5. Book: Brunetti . E. . Diptera. Brachycera. In: [Shipley, A.E., ed.], Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. 1 . 1920 . Taylor & Francis . London . ix + 401 pp., 4 pls.
6. James . M.T. . A stratiomyid fly (Diptera) from the amber of Chiapas, Mexico . University of California Publications in Entomology . 1971 . 63 . 71–73.
7. Kraft . K.J. . Cook . E.F. . A revision of the Pachygasterinae (Diptera, Stratiomyidae) of America north of Mexico . Misc. Publ. Ent. Soc. Am. . 1961 . 3 . 1–24.
8. Lindner . E. . Results of the Archbold Expeditions. Stratiomyiiden von Neu-Guinea (Dipt.) . Nova Guinea . New Series . 1957 . 8 . 183–196.
9. Krivosheina . N.P. . Freidberg . A. . New species of xylophilous soldier-flies (Diptera, Stratiomyidae) from Israel . Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie . 2004 . 83 2004 . 4 . 894–901.
10. Hull . F.M. . Notes and descriptions of North American Stratiomyidae . Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society . 1942 . 37 . 70–72.
11. Grund . M. . Hauser . M. . Pachygaster hymenaea sp. nov. and P. antiqua James, 1971 (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) in Neotropical ambers . Zootaxa . 2005 . 1061 . 1 . 29–34 . 10.11646/zootaxa.1061.1.2 . 1 February 2023. free .
12. Szilády . Z. . Palarktische Stratiomyiden . Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoology) . 1941 . 34 . 88–101 . 13 December 2022.
13. Book: Curtis . J. . British entomology ... Vol. 1 . 1824 . Privately published . London . pls.39–42.
14. Lindner . E. . Neue westpalaarktische Stratiomyiiden (Diptera) . Zoologischer Anzeiger . 1939 . 127 . 312–315.
15. Rozkošný . R. . Kovac . D. . A new species of Pachygaster (Diptera: Stratiomyidae, Pachygasterinae) from West Malaysia and Thailand . Studia dipterologica . 1998 . 5 . 1 . 3–12.
16. Loew. Hermann. Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. Centuria tertia. Berl. Entomol. Z.. 1863. 7. 1–55. 10.1002/mmnd.18630070104. 14 February 2017.
17. Krivosheina . N.P. . A review of the stratiomyid-fly genera Neopachygaster Austen, Eupachygaster Kertesz and Pachygaster Meigen (Diptera, Stratiomyidae) from Russia and neighbouring countries . Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie . 2004 . 83 . 490–506 . Russian.
18. James . M. T. . Bredin-Archbold-Smithsonian biological survey of Dominica. 5. Family Stratiomyidae (Diptera) . Proceedings of the United States National Museum . 1967 . 123 . 3622 . 1–23 . 10.5479/si.00963801.123-3622.1 . 19 December 2022.