Catharosia

{{short description|Genus of flies}}

{{Automatic_taxobox

| image = Catharosia pygmaea - inat 86250288.jpg

| image_caption = Catharosia pygmaea, Austria

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| taxon = Catharosia

| authority = Rondani, 1868{{cite journal |last1=Rondani |first1=C. |title=Diptera italica non vel minus cognita descripta vel annotata observationibus nonnullis additis. Fasc. III |journal=Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali |date=1868 |volume=11 |pages=21–54}}

| type_species = Thereva pygmaea

| type_species_authority = Fallén, 1815

| synonyms = *Alitophasia Townsend, 1934{{cite journal |last1=Townsend |first1=C.H.T. |title=Two new generic names (Diptera: Tachinidae, Dexiidae) |journal=Entomological News |date=1934 |volume=45 |pages=213}}

• Archiphania Emden, 1945{{cite journal |last1=Emden |first1=F.I. van. |title=Keys to the Ethiopian Tachinidae.—I. Phasiinae |journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London |date=1945 |volume=114 [1944] |issue=4 |pages=389–436 + 3 pls|doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1945.tb00234.x }}
• Microsciasma Townsend, 1915{{cite journal |last1=Townsend |first1=C.H.T. |title=New western and southwestern Muscoidea |journal=Journal of the New York Entomological Society |date=1915 |volume=23 |pages=216–234 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8197385#page/274/mode/1up |access-date=21 March 2022}}
• Petia Coquillett, 1910{{cite journal |last1=Coquillett |first1=D.W. |title=New genera and species of North American Diptera |journal=Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington |date=1910 |volume=12 |pages=124–131 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2590168#page/158/mode/1up |access-date=6 November 2021}}
• Procatharosia Villeneuve, 1924{{cite journal |last1=Villeneuve |first1=J. |title=Contribution a la classification des "Tachinidae" paléarctiques |journal=Annales des Sciences Naturelles. Zoologie |series=Série 10 |date=1924 |volume=7 |pages=5–39}}
• Sciasma Coquillett, 1897{{cite journal|last1=Coquillett|first1=D.W.|title=Revision of the Tachinidae of America north of Mexico. A family of parasitic two-winged insects|journal=Technical Series (United States. Division of Entomology) U.S. Dept. Agriculture|date=1897|volume=7|page=156 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/164479#page/3/mode/1up |access-date=28 March 2022}}

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Catharosia 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=1 July 2023 |date=5 March 2020}}{{cite book | last = Chandler | first = Peter J. | year = 1998 | title = Checklists of Insects of the British Isles (New Series) Part 1: Diptera | series = Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects | volume = 12 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–234 | isbn = 0-901546-82-8 | publisher = Royal Entomological Society of London | location = London }}{{cite journal |title= Diptera Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata (I) Section (a) Tachinidae & Calliphoridae |last= van Emden|first= F.I. |year= 1954|publisher= Royal Entomological Society of London |journal= Royal Entomological Society Handbooks|volume=10 |issue= 4a |pages= 133}}{{cite journal |title= Tachinid Flies Diptera Tachinidae|last= Belshaw|first= Robert|year= 1993|publisher= Royal Entomological Society of London |journal= Royal Entomological Society Handbooks|volume=10 |issue= 4ai |pages= 170}}{{cite book |last1= Smith |first1= Kenneth G.V. |last2= Vockeroth |first2= J.R. |editor1-first= R.W. |editor1-last=Crosskey |title= Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region |type= Print |year= 1980 |publisher= British museum (Natural History)|location= London |isbn= 0565-00821-8}}