Torocca

{{short description|Genus of flies}}

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| taxon = Torocca

| authority = Walker, 1859{{cite journal |last1=Walker |first1=F. |title=Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected at Makessar in Celebes, by Mr. A. R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species |journal=Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology |date=1859{{ndash}}1860 |volume=4 |issue=14 |pages=90–96, 97–144, 145–172 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1859.tb00089.x |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35034#page/98/mode/1up |access-date=21 November 2022}}

| type_species = Torocca abdominalis

| type_species_authority = Walker, 1859

| synonyms = *Eutorocca 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 |doi=10.5479/si.00963801.2301.541 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7766626#page/637/mode/1up |access-date=5 July 2023}}

  • Prosophia Townsend, 1927{{cite journal |last1=Townsend |first1=C.H.T. |title=Fauna sumatrensis. (Beitrag Nr. 50). Diptera Muscoidea III. |journal=Supplementa Entomologica |date=1927 |volume=16 |pages=56–76}}

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Torocca 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=8 January 2024 |date=5 March 2020}}

Species

  • Torocca abdominalis Walker, 1859
  • Torocca fasciata (Townsend, 1919)
  • Torocca kloofia (Townsend, 1927)
  • Torocca munda (Walker, 1856){{cite journal|last1=Walker|first1=Francis|title=Catalogue of the Dipterous Insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo, by Mr. A. R. Wallace, with Descriptions of New Species.|journal=Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnaean Society of London|series=Zoology|date=1856|volume=1|issue=3|page=119|doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1856.tb00964.x|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8579971}}
  • Torocca pollinosa Crosskey, 1963{{cite journal |last1=Crosskey |first1=R.W. |title=A new species of Torocca Walker from New Guinea, and a key to the species of this genus (Diptera: Tachinidae) |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Series B, Taxonomy |date=1963 |volume=32 |issue=9–10 |pages=129–134|doi=10.1111/j.1365-3113.1963.tb01594.x }}

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