Ptilodexia Explained

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

Species

• Ptilodexia agilis Reinhard, 1943
• Ptilodexia angulata (Wulp, 1891)^[2]
• Ptilodexia anthracina (Bigot, 1889)^[3]
• Ptilodexia argentina (Bigot, 1889)^[3]
• Ptilodexia arida (Curran, 1930)^[4]
• Ptilodexia californica Wilder, 1979^[5]
• Ptilodexia canescens (Walker, 1853)^[6]
• Ptilodexia carolinensis Brauer & von Berganstamm, 1889
• Ptilodexia cingulipes Blanchard, 1966
• Ptilodexia conjuncta (Wulp, 1891)^[2]
• Ptilodexia constrictans (Wulp, 1891)^[7]
• Ptilodexia discolor (Wulp, 1891)^[2]
• Ptilodexia flavotessellata (Walton, 1914)^[8]
• Ptilodexia fraterna (Wulp, 1891)^[2]
• Ptilodexia fumipennis (Bigot, 1889)^[3]
• Ptilodexia halone (Walker, 1849)^[9]
• Ptilodexia harpasa (Walker, 1849)^[9]
• Ptilodexia imitatrix (Wulp, 1891)^[2]
• Ptilodexia incerta West, 1925^[10]
• Ptilodexia lateralis (Walker, 1836)^[11]
• Ptilodexia macroptera (Wulp, 1891)^[2]
• Ptilodexia maculata Wilder, 1979^[5]
• Ptilodexia major (Bigot, 1889)^[3]
• Ptilodexia mathesoni (Curran, 1930)^[4]
• Ptilodexia muscaria (Walker, 1853)^[6]
• Ptilodexia obscura West, 1925^[10]
• Ptilodexia omissa (Wulp, 1891)^[2]
• Ptilodexia pacifica Wilder, 1979^[5]
• Ptilodexia planifrons (Wulp, 1891)^[2]
• Ptilodexia ponderosa (Curran, 1930)^[4]
• Ptilodexia prexaspes (Walker, 1849)^[9]
• Ptilodexia punctipennis (Wulp, 1891)^[2]
• Ptilodexia rubricauda (Bigot, 1889)^[3]
• Ptilodexia rubricornis (Wulp, 1891)^[2]
• Ptilodexia rubriventris (Macquart, 1846)^[12]
• Ptilodexia rufianalis (Wulp, 1891)^[2]
• Ptilodexia rufipennis (Macquart, 1844)^[13]
• Ptilodexia rutilans (Wulp, 1891)^[2]
• Ptilodexia sabroskyi Wilder, 1979^[5]
• Ptilodexia scutellata (Wulp, 1891)^[2]
• Ptilodexia simplex (Bigot, 1889)^[3]
• Ptilodexia simulans (Wulp, 1891)^[2]
• Ptilodexia sororia (Williston, 1896)^[14]
• Ptilodexia spinosa (Bigot, 1889)^[3]
• Ptilodexia strenua (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830)^[15]
• Ptilodexia striata (Wulp, 1891)^[2]
• Ptilodexia strigilata (Wulp, 1891)^[2]
• Ptilodexia tincticornis (Bigot, 1889)^[3]
• Ptilodexia tinctipennis (Curran, 1934)^[16]
• Ptilodexia varipes (Wulp, 1891)^[2]
• Ptilodexia vittigera Curran, 1934^[16]
• Ptilodexia ypsiliformis Blanchard, 1966

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 . 4 January 2024 . 5 March 2020.
2. Wulp . F.M. van der . Fam. Muscidae [part] . Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Diptera . 1891 . 2 . 225–248.
3. 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 .
4. Curran . Charles Howard . Report on the Diptera collected at the Station for the Study of Insects, Harriman Interstate Park, N.Y. Bulletin of the AMNH . . 1930 . 61 . 2.
5. Wilder . D.D. . Systematics of the Nearctic Ptilodexia Brauer and Bergenstamm (Diptera: Tachinidae) . Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences . 1979 . 42 . 1–55 . 18 December 2023.
6. Book: Walker. Frances. Diptera. Part IV, pp. 253-474, pls. 7-8. In [Saunders, W. W. (ed.)], Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Sauders, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. Vol. 1. 1853. Van Voorst. London. 1–474.
7. Wulp . F.M. van der . Fam. Muscidae [part] ]. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Diptera . 1891 . 2 . 209–224. 18 December 2023.
8. Walton . W.R. . Report on some parasitic and predaceous Diptera from northeastern New Mexico . Proceedings of the United States National Museum . 1914 . 48 . 2070 . 171–186, 2 pls . 10.5479/si.00963801.48-2070.171 . 12 August 2023.
9. 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.
10. West. Luther S.. New Phasiidae and Tachinidae from New York State. Journal of the New York Entomological Society . 1925 . 33 . 3 . 123 . 25004083.
11. Walker . Francis . Descriptions, & c. of the Diptera. In Curtis, J., A. H. Haliday and F. Walker, Descriptions, & c. of the Insects collected by Captain P. P. King, R. N., F. R. S., in the Survey of the Straits of Magellan . Transactions of the Linnean Society of London . 1836 . 17 . 3 . 331–359 . 15 April 2021.
12. Book: Macquart . P.J.M. . Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Supplement. [1] ]. 1846 . Mem. Soc. R. Sci. Agric. Arts . Lille . 133–364, 20 pls . 5 December 2020.
13. Book: Macquart . P.J.M. . Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Tome deuxième.—3e partie. "1843" . 1844 . Roret . Paris . 304.
14. Williston . Samuel Wendell . On the Diptera of St. Vincent (West Indies) . Transactions of the Entomological Society of London . 1896 . 1896 . 253–446, pls. 8–14 . 3 June 2018.
15. Robineau-Desvoidy . J.B. . Essai sur les myodaires . Mémoires présentés par divers savans à l'Académie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France (Sciences Mathématiques et Physiques) . 1830 . 2 . 2 . 1–813 . 7 January 2022.
16. 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.