Cryptomeigenia

{{Short description|Genus of flies}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = Cryptomeigenia elegans01.jpg | image_caption = ''Cryptomeigenia elegans'' | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Cryptomeigenia | authority = Brauer & von Berganstamm, 1891<ref name="BrauerBergenstamm1891">{{cite journal |last1= Brauer|first1= F.|last2= Bergenstamm|first2= J. E. von |date= 1891 |title= Die Zweiflugler des Kaiserlichen Museums zu Wien. V. Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Muscaria Schizometopa (exclusive Anthomyidae) |journal= F. Tempsky, Wien|pages= 142}}</ref> | type_species = ''Cryptomeigenia setifacies'' | type_species_authority = Brauer & von Bergenstamm, 1891<ref name="BrauerBergenstamm1891"/> | synonyms = *''Cryptomeigenioidea'' Thompson, 1968<ref name="Thompson1968">{{cite journal |last1=Thompson |first1=W.R. |title=The tachinids of Trinidad. VIII. Phorocerines |journal=Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada |date=1968 |volume=56 |pages=1–207}}</ref> *''Meigeniella'' Coquillett, 1902<ref name="Coquillett1902b">{{cite journal |last1=Coquillett |first1=D.W. |title=New Diptera from North America |journal=Proceedings of the United States National Museum |date=1902 |volume=25 |issue=1280 |pages=83–126 |doi=10.5479/si.00963801.25-1280.83 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7532589#page/111/mode/1up |access-date=12 March 2022}}</ref> *''Emphanopteryx'' Townsend, 1927 *''Eumyothyria'' Townsend, 1920 }}

'''''Cryptomeigenia''''' is a genus of parasitic flies in the family Tachinidae.<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 | first = James E. | last = O'Hara |author2=Wood, D. Monty | date = 28 January 2004 | publisher = Biodiversidad de Nicaragua | location = Nicaragua | pages = 1–42 }}</ref><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=4 April 2024 |date=5 March 2020}}</ref> Larvae are parasitoids of adult scarab beetles.<ref name="Wood_1985">{{cite journal|last=Wood|first=D. M.|year=1985|title=A Taxonomic Conspectus of the Blondeliini of North and Central America and the West Indies (Diptera: Tachinidae)|journal=Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada|volume=117|number=S132|pages=3–130|doi=10.4039/entm117132fv}}</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 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706211242/http://www.uoguelph.ca/nadsfly/Tach/Genera/Gentach_ver4.pdf |archive-date=July 6, 2011 }}</ref>

==Species== *''Cryptomeigenia aurifacies'' Walton, 1912<ref name="Walton1913">{{cite journal |last1=Walton |first1=W.R. |title=A new species of Tachinidae from Porto Rico |journal=Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington |date=1913 |volume=14 [1912] |pages=198–200 + pl. X |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2585948#page/240/mode/1up |access-date=10 April 2022}}</ref> *''Cryptomeigenia brimleyi'' Reinhard, 1947<ref name="Reinhard1952a">{{cite journal |last1=Reinhard |first1=H.J. |title=New genera and species of muscoid Diptera |journal=Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society |date=1952 |volume=47 |pages=1–12}}</ref> *''Cryptomeigenia crassipalpis'' Reinhard, 1947<ref name="Reinhard1952a"/> *''Cryptomeigenia demylus'' (Walker, 1849)<ref name="Walker1849b">{{cite book |last1=Walker |first1=F. |title=List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part IV.|date=1849 |publisher=British Museum |location=London |pages=[3] + 689–1172 + [2]|url= https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/118982#page/7/mode/1up |access-date=20 October 2022}}</ref> *''Cryptomeigenia dubia'' Curran, 1926<ref name="Curran1926">{{cite journal |last1=Curran |first1=C.H. |title=The Canadian species of the tachinid genera ''Cryptomeigenia'' B.B. and Tachinomyia Tns. (Dipt.) |journal=Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada |series=Series 3 |date=1926 |volume=20 |issue=5 |pages=155–171 + [1] p. + 2 pls}}</ref> *''Cryptomeigenia elegans'' (Wulp, 1890)<ref name="Wulp1890d">{{cite book |last1=Wulp |first1=F.M. van der |title=Fam. Muscidae. Pp. 113-144. [Cont.] In: Godman, F.D. and Salvin, O., eds., Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. Zoologia. Class Insecta. Order Diptera. Vol. II. [1888–1903.] |date=1890 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |location=London |pages=489 pp + 13 pls}}</ref> *''Cryptomeigenia flavibasis'' Curran, 1927 *''Cryptomeigenia hinei'' (Coquillett, 1902)<ref name="Coquillett1902b"/> *''Cryptomeigenia illinoiensis'' (Townsend, 1892)<ref name="Townsend1892c">{{cite journal |last1=Townsend |first1=C.H.T. |title=Notes on North American Tachinidae sens. str. with descriptions of new genera and species. Paper III |journal=Transactions of the American Entomological Society |date=1892 |volume=19 |pages=88–132 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7804008#page/100/mode/1up |access-date=21 March 2022}}</ref> *''Cryptomeigenia longipes'' (Thompson, 1968)<ref name="Thompson1968"/> *''Cryptomeigenia meridionalis'' (Townsend, 1912)<ref name="Townsend1912b">{{cite journal |last1=Townsend |first1=C.H.T. |title=Description of new genera and species of muscoid flies from the Andean and Pacific Coast regions of South America |journal=Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus. |date=1912 |volume=43 |issue=1935 |pages=301–367 |doi=10.5479/si.00963801.1935.301 |url=https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/14378/USNMP-43_1935_1912.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |access-date=9 June 2023}}</ref> *''Cryptomeigenia muscoides'' Curran, 1926<ref name="Curran1926"/> *''Cryptomeigenia nigripes'' Curran, 1926<ref name="Curran1926"/> *''Cryptomeigenia nigripilosa'' Curran, 1926<ref name="Curran1926"/> *''Cryptomeigenia ochreigaster'' Curran, 1926<ref name="Curran1926"/> *''Cryptomeigenia setifacies'' Brauer & von Berganstamm, 1891<ref name="BrauerBergenstamm1891"/> *''Cryptomeigenia simplex'' Curran, 1926<ref name="Curran1926"/> *''Cryptomeigenia theutis'' (Walker, 1849)<ref name="Walker1849b"/> *''Cryptomeigenia triangularis'' Curran, 1926<ref name="Curran1926"/>

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Flies of North America Category:Flies of South America Category:Exoristinae Category:Tachinidae genera Category:Taxa named by Friedrich Moritz Brauer Category:Taxa named by Julius von Bergenstamm