Calodexia is a Neotropical genus of parasitic flies in the family Tachinidae. Females follow columns of army ants, apparently waiting for cockroaches to be flushed from hiding.[11][12]

Calodexia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Subfamily: Exoristinae
Tribe: Blondeliini
Genus: Calodexia
Wulp, 1891[1]
Type species
Calodexia majuscula
Wulp, 1891[1]
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  1. ^ a b c Van der Wulp, Frederick Maurit (1891). "Eenige uitlandsche Diptera". Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 34: 193–217. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  2. ^ Townsend, C.H.T. (1927). "Synopse dos generos muscoideos da regiao humida tropical da America, con generos e especies novas". Revista do Museu Paulista. 15: 203–385. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
  3. ^ Curran, Charles Howard (1934). The families and genera of North American Diptera. New York: Ballou Press. pp. 512 pp. 2 pls.
  4. ^ Townsend, C.H.T. (1908). "The taxonomy of the muscoidean flies, including descriptions of new genera and species". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 51. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
  5. ^ a b Townsend, C.H.T. (1935). "New South American Oestroidea (Dipt.)". Revista de Entomologia. 5: 216–233.
  6. ^ Townsend, C.H.T. (1939). "Seven new genera of Brazilian oestromuscarian flies". Revista de Entomologia. 10: 446–452.
  7. ^ Townsend, C.H.T. (1912). "Description of new genera and species of muscoid flies from the Andean and Pacific Coast regions of South America" (PDF). Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus. 43 (1935): 301–367. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.1935.301. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
  8. ^ a b Townsend, C.H.T. (1915). "New Neotropical muscoid flies". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 49 (2115): 405–440. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.2115.405. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
  9. ^ Townsend, C.H.T. (1917). "Second paper on Brazilian Muscoidea collected by Herbert H. Smith" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 37: 221–233. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  10. ^ Rondani, C. (1861). "De genere Dipterorum Neera Desv: Italicis addendes. Nota X.". Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano (1859-60). 2: 183–187, 1 pl.
  11. ^ Wood, D. M. (1985). "A Taxonomic Conspectus of the Blondeliini of North and Central America and the West Indies (Diptera: Tachinidae)". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada. 117 (S132): 3–130. doi:10.4039/entm117132fv.
  12. ^ 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 3 April 2024.
  13. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Curran, C.H. (1934). "Review of the tachinid genus Calodexia van der Wulp (Diptera)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (685): 1–21. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  14. ^ a b c Thompson, W.R. (1968). "The tachinids of Trinidad. VIII. Phorocerines". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada. 56: 1–207.
  15. ^ a b c d e Wulp, F.M. van der (1890). Fam. Muscidae. Pp. 113–144 + pl. 3. [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.] London: Taylor & Francis. pp. 489 pp + 13 pls.
  16. ^ Wulp, F.M. van der. (1890). Fam. Muscidae. Pp. 177–200. [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.] London: Taylor & Francis. pp. 489 pp + 13 pls.