Adejeania

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Adejeania

A. vexatrix

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Tachinidae
Subfamily:	Tachininae
Tribe:	Dejeaniini
Genus:	Adejeania

Diversity

36 species

Type species

Dejeania armata
Wiedemann, 1830

Species

See text.

Adejeania is a genus of tachinid flies from the Americas. While most species are found in South America, A. vexatrix occurs from Mexico up to British Columbia.

1 Name
2 Species
3 References
4 Further reading

[edit] Name

The genus name is an alteration of Dejeania, meaning "not Dejeania". Other tachinid genera from the same root are Eudejeania, Paradejeania and Protodejeania.

[edit] Species

This is a list of species according to Zipcode Zoo, with additional information from The Diptera Site.

Adejeania analis (Macquart, 1843) (Colombia)
Adejeania andina (Townsend, 1912) (Peru)
Adejeania anduzei Curran, 1947 (Venezuela)
Adejeania armata (Wiedemann, 1830) (Cuba)
Adejeania aurea (Giglio-Tos, 1893) (Mexico)
Adejeania bicaudata Curran, 1947 (Brazil)
Adejeania biornata Curran, 1947 (Brazil)
Adejeania brasiliensis (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) (Brazil)
Adejeania brevihirta Curran, 1947 (Venezuela)
Adejeania brevirostris Curran, 1947 (Mexico)
Adejeania browni Curran, 1947 (Ecuador, Colombia)
Adejeania conclusa Curran, 1947 (Brazil)
Adejeania corpulenta (Wiedemann, 1830) (Mexico)
Adejeania grandis Guimaraes, 1966 (Brazil)
Adejeania honesta (Rondani, 1851) (Ecuador)
Adejeania lopesi Guimaraes, 1966 (Brazil)
Adejeania magalhaesi Guimaraes, 1966 (Brazil)
Adejeania marginalis Curran, 1947 (Brazil)
Adejeania nigrothoracica (Vimmer & Soukup, 1940) (Peru)
Adejeania palpalis Curran, 1947 (Panama)
Adejeania pellucens Guimaraes, 1966 (Brazil)
Adejeania rufipalpis (Macquart, 1843) (Mexico)
Adejeania sabroskyi Guimaraes, 1966 (Brazil)
Adejeania saetigera Guimaraes, 1966 (Brazil)
Adejeania santipauli Guimaraes, 1966 (Brazil)
Adejeania spiniventris Guimaraes, 1966 (Brazil)
Adejeania spinosa Guimaraes, 1966 (Brazil)
Adejeania thompsoni Guimaraes, 1966 (Brazil)
Adejeania townsendi Curran, 1947 (Brazil)
Adejeania tridens Curran, 1947 (Brazil)
Adejeania uniformis Curran, 1947 (Brazil)
Adejeania verrugana (Townsend, 1914) (Peru)
Adejeania vexatrix (Osten Sacken, 1877) (North America)
Adejeania wygodzinskyi Guimaraes, 1966 (Brazil)
Adejeania xanthopilosa Guimaraes, 1966 (Brazil)
Adejeania ypsilon Curran, 1947 (Brazil)

[edit] References

Townsend, C.H.T. (1913): On the Tribe Dejeaniini of the Muscoid family Hystriciidae, with five new genera. Psyche 20:102-106. PDF (Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license)

[edit] Further reading

Wiedemann, C.R.W. (1830). Aussereuropäische zweiflügelige Insekten. Zweiter Theil. Schulz, Hamm.
Robineau-Desvoidy, J.B. (1830). Essai sur les myodaires. Mem. Pres. Div. Sav. Acad. Sci. Inst. Fr. 2(2).
Rondani, C. (1851). Dipterorum species aliquae in America aequatoriali collectae a Cajetano Osculati, observatae et distinctae novis breviter descriptis. Nuovi Ann. Sci. Nat. Bologna (3) 2:357-372