Cryptomeigenia

Cryptomeigenia
Cryptomeigenia elegans
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Tachinidae
Subfamily:	Exoristinae
Tribe:	Blondeliini
Genus:	Cryptomeigenia Brauer & von Berganstamm, 1891[1]
Type species
Cryptomeigenia setifacies Brauer & von Bergenstamm, 1891[1]
Synonyms
Cryptomeigenioidea Thompson, 1968[2] Meigeniella Coquillett, 1902[3] Emphanopteryx Townsend, 1927 Eumyothyria Townsend, 1920

Cryptomeigenia is a genus of parasitic flies in the family Tachinidae.[4][5] Larvae are parasitoids of adult scarab beetles.[6][7]

Species

• Cryptomeigenia aurifacies Walton, 1912[8]
• Cryptomeigenia brimleyi Reinhard, 1947[9]
• Cryptomeigenia crassipalpis Reinhard, 1947[9]
• Cryptomeigenia demylus (Walker, 1849)[10]
• Cryptomeigenia dubia Curran, 1926[11]
• Cryptomeigenia elegans (Wulp, 1890)[12]
• Cryptomeigenia flavibasis Curran, 1927
• Cryptomeigenia hinei (Coquillett, 1902)[3]
• Cryptomeigenia illinoiensis (Townsend, 1892)[13]
• Cryptomeigenia longipes (Thompson, 1968)[2]
• Cryptomeigenia meridionalis (Townsend, 1912)[14]
• Cryptomeigenia muscoides Curran, 1926[11]
• Cryptomeigenia nigripes Curran, 1926[11]
• Cryptomeigenia nigripilosa Curran, 1926[11]
• Cryptomeigenia ochreigaster Curran, 1926[11]
• Cryptomeigenia setifacies Brauer & von Berganstamm, 1891[1]
• Cryptomeigenia simplex Curran, 1926[11]
• Cryptomeigenia theutis (Walker, 1849)[10]
• Cryptomeigenia triangularis Curran, 1926[11]

References

1. Brauer, F.; Bergenstamm, J. E. von (1891). "Die Zweiflugler des Kaiserlichen Museums zu Wien. V. Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Muscaria Schizometopa (exclusive Anthomyidae)". F. Tempsky, Wien: 142.
2. Thompson, W.R. (1968). "The tachinids of Trinidad. VIII. Phorocerines". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada. 56: 1–207.
3. Coquillett, D.W. (1902). "New Diptera from North America". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 25 (1280): 83–126. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.25-1280.83. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
4. O'Hara, James E.; Wood, D. Monty (28 January 2004). "Checklist Of The Tachinidae (Diptera) Of America North Of Mexico" (PDF). Nicaragua: Biodiversidad de Nicaragua. pp. 1–42.
5. O’Hara, James E.; Henderson, Shannon J.; Wood, D. Monty (5 March 2020). "Preliminary Checklist of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of the World" (PDF). Tachinidae Resources. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
6. Wood, D. M. (1985). "A Taxonomic Conspectus of the Blondeliini of North and Central America and the West Indies (Diptera: Tachinidae)". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada. 117 (S132): 3–130. doi:10.4039/entm117132fv.
7. James E. O'Hara (December 31, 2008). "World Genera of the Tachinidae (Diptera) and their Regional Occurrence" (PDF). Version 4.0. University of Guelph. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 6, 2011. Retrieved August 1, 2010.
8. Walton, W.R. (1913). "A new species of Tachinidae from Porto Rico". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 14 [1912]: 198–200 + pl. X. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
9. Reinhard, H.J. (1952). "New genera and species of muscoid Diptera". Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. 47: 1–12.
10. Walker, F. (1849). List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part IV. London: British Museum. pp. [3] + 689–1172 + [2]. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
11. Curran, C.H. (1926). "The Canadian species of the tachinid genera Cryptomeigenia B.B. and Tachinomyia Tns. (Dipt.)". Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. Series 3. 20 (5): 155–171 + [1] p. + 2 pls.
12. Wulp, F.M. van der (1890). Fam. Muscidae. Pp. 113-144. [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.] London: Taylor & Francis. pp. 489 pp + 13 pls.
13. Townsend, C.H.T. (1892). "Notes on North American Tachinidae sens. str. with descriptions of new genera and species. Paper III". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 19: 88–132. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
14. Townsend, C.H.T. (1912). "Description of new genera and species of muscoid flies from the Andean and Pacific Coast regions of South America" (PDF). Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus. 43 (1935): 301–367. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.1935.301. Retrieved 9 June 2023.