Calolydella is a genus of parasitoid flies in the family Tachinidae.[3][4] 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).[5][4]

Calolydella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Subfamily: Exoristinae
Tribe: Blondeliini
Genus: Calolydella
Townsend, 1927[1]
Type species
Calolydella geminata
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  1. ^ a b c d e Townsend, C. H. T. (1927). "Synopse dos generos muscoideos da regiao humida tropical da America, con generos e especies novas". Revta Mus. Paulista. 15: 203–385.
  2. ^ James E. O'Hara (December 31, 2008). "World Genera of the Tachinidae (Diptera) and their Regional Occurrence" (PDF). Version 4.0. University of Guelph. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 6, 2011. Retrieved August 1, 2010.
  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 28 February 2022.
  4. ^ a b O'Hara, James E.; Wood, D. Monty (28 January 2004). "Checklist Of The Tachinidae (Diptera) Of America North Of Mexico" (PDF). Nicaragua: Biodiversidad de Nicaragua. pp. 1–42.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Fleming, AJ; Wood, D. Monty; Smith, M. Alex; Hallwachs, Winnie; Janzen, Daniel (2018-02-02). "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". Biodiversity Data Journal. 6 (6): e11223. doi:10.3897/bdj.6.e11223. ISSN 1314-2828. PMC 5904339. PMID 29674932.
  6. ^ a b c d Wulp, F. M. van der (1890). "Family Muscidae". Biologia Centrali-Americana :zoology, Botany and Archaeology. 2: 186–204. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
  7. ^ Curran, C.H. (1925). "Some apparently new Nearctic Tachinidae (Diptera)". Canadian Entomologist. 57 (281–286).