Calcager

{{short description|Genus of flies}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2024}}

{{Automatic_taxobox

| image = Calcager apertum 59367182.jpg

| image_caption = Calcager apertum

| display_parents = 2

| taxon = Calcager

| authority = Hutton, 1901{{cite journal |last1=Hutton |first1=Frederick Wollaston |title=Synopsis of the Diptera Brachycera of New Zealand. |journal=Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute |date=1901 |volume=33 |pages=1–95 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3303747#page/29/mode/1up |accessdate=1 December 2019}}

| type_species = Calcager apertum

| type_species_authority = Hutton, 1901

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Calcager is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.{{cite web |last1=O’Hara |first1=James E. |last2=Henderson |first2=Shannon J. |first3=D. Monty |last3=Wood |title=Preliminary Checklist of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of the World|url=http://www.nadsdiptera.org/Tach/WorldTachs/Checklist/Tachchlist_ver2.1.pdf |website=Tachinidae Resources |access-date=5 February 2024 |date=5 March 2020}}

Species

  • Calcager apertum Hutton, 1901
  • Calcager dubius Malloch, 1938{{cite journal |last= Malloch|first= John Russell |date= 1938 |title= The calyptrate Diptera of New Zealand, parts VIII and IX. |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/TPRSNZ1938-68.2.11.16 |journal=Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand |publisher= The Royal Society of New Zealand |volume= 68 |pages= 161–258 |access-date = 12 August 2023}}

Distribution

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