Microchaetina

{{Short description|Genus of flies}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Microchaetina sp.jpg

| image_caption =

| display_parents = 2

| taxon = Microchaetina

| authority = Wulp, 1891{{cite journal |last1=Van der Wulp |first1=Frederick Maurit |title=Eenige uitlandsche Diptera |journal=Tijdschrift voor Entomologie |date=1891 |volume=34 |pages=193–217 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10863151#page/331/mode/1up |access-date=21 April 2020}}

| type_species = Microchaetina cinerea

| type_species_authority = Wulp, 1891

| synonyms = *Almugmyia Townsend, 1911{{cite journal |last1=Townsend |first1=C.H.T. |title=Announcement of further results secured in the study of muscoid flies |journal=Annals of the Entomological Society of America |date=1911 |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=127–152 |doi=10.1093/aesa/4.2.127 |doi-access=free }}

  • Hypenomyia Townsend, 1919{{cite journal |last1=Townsend |first1=C.H.T. |title=New genera and species of muscoid flies |journal=Proceedings of the United States National Museum |date=1919 |volume=56 |issue=2301 |pages=541–592 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7766626#page/637/mode/1up |access-date=5 July 2023}}
  • Reinhardiana Arnaud, 1952{{cite journal |last1=Arnaud |first1=P.H. Jr. |title=Reinhardiana new name for Hypenomyia Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae or Larvaevoridae) |journal=Pan-Pacific Entomologist |date=1952 |volume=28 |pages=58 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53433856#page/60/mode/1up |access-date=24 December 2023}}
  • Steveniopsis Townsend, 1919

}}

Microchaetina 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=18 December 2023 |date=5 March 2020}}

Species

  • Microchaetina arida (Townsend, 1911)
  • Microchaetina cinerea Wulp, 1891{{cite journal |last1=Wulp |first1=F.M. van der |title=Fam. Muscidae [part] |journal=Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Diptera |date=1891 |volume=2 |pages=225–248}}
  • Microchaetina mexicana (Townsend, 1892){{cite journal |last1=Townsend |first1=C.H.T. |title=Notes on North American Tachinidae, with descriptions of new genera and species.--Paper VI. |journal=The Canadian Entomologist |date=1892 |volume=24 |pages=165–172 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/88717#page/169/mode/1up |access-date=6 March 2022}}
  • Microchaetina petiolata (Townsend, 1919)
  • Microchaetina rubidiapex (Reinhard, 1942){{cite journal |last1=Reinhard |first1=H.J. |title=New North American Tachinidae belonging to the genera Microchaetina and Hypenomyia with key to the known species (Diptera) |journal=Canadian Entomologist |date=1942 |volume=74 |pages=88–91}}
  • Microchaetina sinuata (Townsend, 1919)
  • Microchaetina subnitens (Reinhard, 1942)
  • Microchaetina teleta Reinhard, 1962{{cite journal |last1=Reinhard |first1=H.J. |title=New North American Tachinidae (Diptera) |journal=The Pan-Pacific Entomologist |date=1962 |volume=38 |pages=215–224}}
  • Microchaetina valida (Townsend, 1892)

References