Curtis Williams Sabrosky

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Curtis Williams Sabrosky (3 April 1910, Sturgis, Michigan-1997)was an American entomologist . He specialised in Diptera, especially Chloropidae.

Sabrosky worked at the Systematic Entomology Laboratory United States Department of Agriculture National Museum of Natural History.His collection is in that museumt.

[edit] Partial List Publications

  • Insects of Macquarie Island Diptera Chloropidae, Milichidae Pacific Insects 4 (4) : 308-311 (1964).

[1] pdf

  • 1999, Family-Group Names in Diptera, Myia, 10:1-576.

[2] pdf Important systematic/Nomenclatural Work.

    • with, Wirth, WW, Foote, RH and Coulson, JR.. A Catalog of the Diptera of America north of Mexico. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC. 1696 pp (1965).

Asteiidae

  • Contributions to the knowledge of Old World Asteiidae.Revue francaise d'entomologie (Nouvelle Serie) 23:216-243.

Chloropidae and Milichidae

  • Milichidae and Chloropidae (Diptera from the Hatu Caves, Malaya. Pacific Insects 6 (2) : 308-311 (1964).

Tachinidae

  • Identification of Winthemia of America north of Mexico, with a revised key to the females (Diptera, Tachinidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 66: 1035-1041. (1973).
  • A revised key to the Nearctic species of Lespesia (Diptera: Tachinidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 73: 63-73 (1980).

with P.H. Arnaud, Jr. Family Tachinidae (Larvaevoridae). pp. 961-1108 in Stone, A., et al. (Eds.), A catalog of the Diptera of America north of Mexico. United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Handbook 276: 1-1696 (1965).