{{short description|Genus of flies}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Calolydella | authority = Townsend, 1927<ref name="Townsend1927a">{{cite journal |last= Townsend |first= C. H. T. |date= 1927 |title= Synopse dos generos muscoideos da regiao humida tropical da America, con generos e especies novas |journal= Revta Mus. Paulista |volume= 15 |pages= 203–385}}</ref> | display_parents = 2 | type_species = ''Calolydella geminata'' | type_species_authority = Townsend, 1927<ref name="Townsend1927a"/> | synonyms_ref = <ref>{{cite web|title=World Genera of the Tachinidae (Diptera) and their Regional Occurrence |author=James E. O'Hara |date=December 31, 2008 |access-date=August 1, 2010 |version=Version 4.0 |publisher=University of Guelph |url=http://www.uoguelph.ca/nadsfly/Tach/Genera/Gentach_ver4.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706211242/http://www.uoguelph.ca/nadsfly/Tach/Genera/Gentach_ver4.pdf |archive-date=July 6, 2011 }}</ref> | synonyms = *''Olindopsis'' <small>Townsend, 1927</small> *''Prodexodes'' <small>Townsend, 1927</small> *''Pygophorinia'' <small>Townsend, 1927</small> }}
'''''Calolydella''''' is a genus of parasitoid flies in the family Tachinidae.<ref name="OHara2020">{{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=28 February 2022 |date=5 March 2020}}</ref><ref name="NorthOfMexico"/> This genus has been shown to primarily parasitize multiple species of caterpillars across a wide variety of families (Lepidoptera: Crambidae; Erebidae; Geometridae; Hesperiidae; Lycaenidae; Nymphalidae; Pieridae; Riodinidae; and Sphingidae).<ref name="FlemingWood2018">{{Cite journal|last1=Fleming|first1=AJ|last2=Wood|first2=D. Monty|last3=Smith|first3=M. Alex|last4=Hallwachs|first4=Winnie|last5=Janzen|first5=Daniel|date=2018-02-02|title=Revision of the Mesoamerican species of Calolydella Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae) and description of twenty-three new species reared from caterpillars in Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica|journal=Biodiversity Data Journal |language=en |volume=6 |issue=6 |article-number=e11223 |doi=10.3897/bdj.6.e11223 |pmid=29674932 |issn=1314-2828 |pmc=5904339 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="NorthOfMexico">{{cite web | url = http://www.bio-nica.info/biblioteca/OHara2004Tachinidae.pdf | title = Checklist Of The Tachinidae (Diptera) Of America North Of Mexico | last1 = O'Hara | first1 = James E. | last2 = Wood | first2 = D. Monty | date = 28 January 2004 | publisher = Biodiversidad de Nicaragua | location = Nicaragua | pages = 1–42}}</ref>
==Species== *''Calolydella adelinamoralesae'' <small>Fleming & Wood, 2018</small><ref name="FlemingWood2018"/> *''Calolydella alexanderjamesi'' <small>Fleming & Wood, 2018</small><ref name="FlemingWood2018"/> *''Calolydella andinensis'' <small>(Townsend, 1927)</small><ref name="Townsend1927a"/> *''Calolydella argentea'' <small>Fleming & Wood, 2018</small><ref name="FlemingWood2018"/> *''Calolydella aureofacies'' <small>Fleming & Wood, 2018</small><ref name="FlemingWood2018"/> *''Calolydella bicolor'' <small>Fleming & Wood, 2018</small><ref name="FlemingWood2018"/> *''Calolydella bifissus'' <small>Fleming & Wood, 2018</small><ref name="FlemingWood2018"/> *''Calolydella blandita'' <small>(Wulp, 1890)</small><ref name="Wulp1890">{{cite journal |last= Wulp|first= F. M. van der |date= 1890 |title= Family Muscidae |url= https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/14628#page/197/mode/1up |journal= Biologia Centrali-Americana :zoology, Botany and Archaeology |volume= 2 |pages= 186–204 |access-date=20 February 2015}}</ref> *''Calolydella cingulata'' <small>(Schiner, 1868)</small> *''Calolydella concinna'' <small>(Wulp, 1890)</small><ref name="Wulp1890"/> *''Calolydella crocata'' <small>Fleming & Wood, 2018</small><ref name="FlemingWood2018"/> *''Calolydella cylindriventris'' <small>(Wulp, 1890)</small><ref name="Wulp1890"/> *''Calolydella destituta'' <small>Fleming & Wood, 2018</small><ref name="FlemingWood2018"/> *''Calolydella discalis'' <small>Fleming & Wood, 2018</small><ref name="FlemingWood2018"/> *''Calolydella erasmocoronadoi'' <small>Fleming & Wood, 2018</small><ref name="FlemingWood2018"/> *''Calolydella felipechavarriai'' <small>Fleming & Wood, 2018</small><ref name="FlemingWood2018"/> *''Calolydella fredriksjobergi'' <small>Fleming & Wood, 2018</small><ref name="FlemingWood2018"/> *''Calolydella geminata'' <small>Townsend, 1927</small> *''Calolydella gentica'' <small>(Walker, 1860)</small> *''Calolydella inflatipalpis'' <small>Fleming & Wood, 2018</small><ref name="FlemingWood2018"/> *''Calolydella interrupta'' <small>Fleming & Wood, 2018</small><ref name="FlemingWood2018"/> *''Calolydella lathami'' <small>(Curran, 1925)</small><ref name="Curran1925">{{cite journal |last1=Curran |first1=C.H. |title=Some apparently new Nearctic Tachinidae (Diptera) |journal=Canadian Entomologist |date=1925 |volume=57 |issue=281–286}}</ref> *''Calolydella leucophaea'' <small>(Wulp, 1890)</small><ref name="Wulp1890"/> *''Calolydella nigripalpis'' <small>Fleming & Wood, 2018</small><ref name="FlemingWood2018"/> *''Calolydella omissa'' <small>Fleming & Wood, 2018</small><ref name="FlemingWood2018"/> *''Calolydella ordinalis'' <small>Fleming & Wood, 2018</small><ref name="FlemingWood2018"/> *''Calolydella peruviana'' <small>(Townsend, 1927)</small><ref name="Townsend1927a"/> *''Calolydella renemalaisei'' <small>Fleming & Wood, 2018</small><ref name="FlemingWood2018"/> *''Calolydella rufiventris'' <small>(Townsend, 1927)</small><ref name="Townsend1927a"/> *''Calolydella summatis'' <small>Reinhard, 1975</small> *''Calolydella susanaroibasae'' <small>Fleming & Wood, 2018</small><ref name="FlemingWood2018"/> *''Calolydella tanyadapkeyae'' <small>Fleming & Wood, 2018</small><ref name="FlemingWood2018"/> *''Calolydella tenebrosa'' <small>Fleming & Wood, 2018</small><ref name="FlemingWood2018"/> *''Calolydella timjamesi'' <small>Fleming & Wood, 2018</small><ref name="FlemingWood2018"/> *''Calolydella triangulifera'' <small>(Bigot, 1889)</small> *''Calolydella trifasciata'' <small>(Walker, 1837)</small> *''Calolydella virginiajamesae'' <small>Fleming & Wood, 2018</small><ref name="FlemingWood2018"/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Flies of North America Category:Flies of South America Category:Exoristinae Category:Tachinidae genera Category:Taxa named by Charles Henry Tyler Townsend
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