Pygocalcager

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Pygocalcager
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Subfamily: Tachininae
Tribe: Proscissionini
Genus: Pygocalcager
Townsend, 1935 [1]
Type species
Pygocalcager humeratum
Hutton, 1901 [2]

Pygocalcager is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae. [3] Currently only one member of the genus has been described, Pygocalcager humeratum, which is endemic to New Zealand and was originally described as Calcager humeratum by Hutton in 1901. [2] This was moved to its own genus in 1935 by Charles Henry Tyler Townsend. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Townsend, C.H.T. (1935). "Pygocalcager gen. nov. (Dipt.: Tachinidae)". Entomological News. 46: 215.
  2. 1 2 Hutton, Frederick Wollaston (1901). "Synopsis of the Diptera Brachycera of New Zealand". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 33: 1–95. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
  3. ↑ O’Hara, James E.; Henderson, Shannon J.; Wood, D. Monty (5 March 2020). "Preliminary Checklist of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of the World" (PDF). Tachinidae Resources. Retrieved 1 July 2023.


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