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Cryptochetum

Cryptochetum is a genus of scale parasite flies in the family Cryptochetidae. There are more than 30 described species in Cryptochetum.

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Cryptochetum
Cryptochetum iceryae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Superfamily: Lonchaeoidea
Family: Cryptochetidae
Genus: Cryptochetum
Rondani, 18751
Type species
Cryptochetum grandicorne
Rondani, 18751
Synonyms
  • Atriangulum Bruggen, 19602
  • Cryptochaetum Williston, 18883
  • Cryptochoetum Rondani, 18751
  • Lestophonus Williston, 18883
  • Tritolestes Ghesquiere, 19434

Cryptochetum is a genus of scale parasite flies in the family Cryptochetidae. There are more than 30 described species in Cryptochetum.567

Species

These 35 species belong to the genus Cryptochetum:

  • C. acuticornutum (Yang & Yang, 1998)8
  • C. aenescens (Meijere, 1916)9
  • C. aspidoprocti Ghesquiere, 19434
  • C. brachycerum Thorpe, 194110
  • C. brevicostatum Bruggen, 19602
  • C. buccatum Hendel, 1933
  • C. capense Bruggen, 19602
  • C. chalybeum (Meijere, 1916)9
  • C. curtipenne Knab, 191411
  • C. euthyiproboscise Xi & Yin, 202012
  • C. fastidiosum Bezzi, 1920
  • C. ghanii Steyskal, 197113
  • C. glochidiatusum Xi & Yin, 202012
  • C. grandicorne Rondani, 18751
  • C. iceryae (Williston, 1888)3 (cottony cushion scale parasite)
  • C. idiocerum Thorpe, 194110
  • C. jorgepastori (Cadahia, 1984)
  • C. latimanum Malloch, 1927
  • C. longilingum Xi & Yin, 202012
  • C. medianum (Yang & Yang, 1998)8
  • C. melan Ghesquiere, 19434
  • C. mineuri Séguy, 195314
  • C. mixtum Bruggen, 19602
  • C. monophlebi (Skuse, 1889)
  • C. nipponense (Tokunaga, 1943)
  • C. nonagintaseptem Yang & Yang, 19988
  • C. oocerum Thorpe, 194110
  • C. pariceryae Thorpe, 194110
  • C. shaanxiense Xi & Yang, 201515
  • C. smaragdinum Séguy, 194816
  • C. striatum Thorpe, 194110
  • C. tianmuense Yang & Yang, 2001
  • C. tuberculatum Thorpe, 194110
  • C. turanicum Nartshuk, 1979
  • C. utile Bruggen, 19602
  • C. vayssierei Ghesquière, 1950
  • C. yunnanum Xi & Yang, 201515
  • C. zalatilabium Xi & Yang, 201515
References

References

  1. Rondani, Camillo (1875). "Species Italicae ordinis Dipterorum (Muscaria Rndn.) collectae et observatae. Stirps XXIII. Agromyzinae". Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana. 7: 166–191. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  2. Bruggen, A.C. van (1960). "A new subgenus and four new species of Cryptochaetum Rondani (Diptera: Cryptochaetidae) from South Africa". Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa. 23: 286–295.
  3. Williston, Samuel Wendell (1896). Manual of the families and genera of North American Diptera. Ed. 2 (2nd ed.). New Haven: James T.Hathaway. pp. liv + 167 pp. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  4. Ghesquiere, J. (1943). "Recherches sur les Diptères d'Afrique. II. -- Notice monographique sur les Muscoides Cryptochaetidae, parasites de Coccides Monophlebinae". Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines. 36 [1942]: 390–410.
  5. "Cryptochetum Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  6. "Cryptochetum". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  7. Yang, C.K.; Yang, C.Q. (1998). "The family Cryptochaetidae new to Henan, with two new species (Diptera: Acalyptratae)". Fauna and Taxonomy of Insects in Henan (in Chinese). 2: 97–99.
  8. Meijere, J.C.H. de (1916). "Studien über südostasiatische Diptera XI. Zur Biologie einiger javanischen Dipteren nebst Beschreibung einiger neuen javanischen Arten". Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 59: 184–213. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  9. Thorpe, W.H. (1941). "A description of six new species of the genus Cryptochaetum (Diptera-Agromyzidae) from East Africa and East Indies; together with a key to the adults of larvae of all known species". Parasitology. 33 (2): 131–148.
  10. Knab, F. (1914). "On the genus Cryptochaetum (Diptera, Muscidae acalyptratae)". Insec. Inscit. menstr. 2 (3): 33–36.
  11. Xi, Yuqiang; Yin, Xinming (2020). "Three new Cryptochetum Rondani, 1875 (Diptera: Cryptochetidae) from Yunnan Province, China and an identification key to Chinese species". European Journal of Taxonomy. 605: 1–15. ISSN 2118-9773. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  12. Steyskal, G.C. (1971). "The subgenus Tritolestes Ghesquiere of the genus Cryptochetum Rondani with a new species from Pakistan (Diptera: Cryptochetidae)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 73: 48–51. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  13. Séguy, E. (1953). "Description d'un Cryptochaetum marocain (Drosophilidae)". Encycl. Ent. (1947–1953). 11: 46.
  14. Xi, Yuqiang; Yang, Ding (2015). "Three New Species of Cryptochetum Rondani from China (Diptera, Cryptochetidae)". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 141 (1): 80–89.
  15. Séguy, E. (1948). "Trois Diptères nouveaux d'Asie Orientale". Notes Ent. Chin. 12 (12): 143–147.
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