Actia (genus)

Actia is a genus of large flies in the family Tachinidae.[4][3][5][6][7][8][9]

Actia Temporal range: Early Jurassic 196Ma-Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Tachinidae
Subfamily:	Tachininae
Tribe:	Siphonini
Genus:	Actia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
Type species
Roselia lamia Meigen, 1838[1]
Synonyms[2]
Actiopsis Townsend, 1917 Gymnopareia Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1891[3] Gymnophthalma Lioy, 1864[3] Setasiphona Townsend, 1934 Thriptocera Róndani, 1859 Thryptocera Macquart, 1834

Species

• Actia ampla Tachi & Shima, 1998[10]
• Actia antiqua (Mesnil, 1954)
• Actia autumnalis (Townsend, 1917)
• Actia brevis Malloch, 1930
• Actia brunnea Malloch, 1930
• Actia chrysocera Bezzi, 1923
• Actia ciligera (Mesnil, 1954)
• Actia clavula Tachi & Shima, 1998[10]
• Actia completa Malloch, 1930
• Actia crassicornis (Meigen, 1824)[3]
• Actia cuthbertsoni Curran, 1933
• Actia darwini Malloch, 1929
• Actia dasymyia O'Hara, 1991[11]
• Actia deferens Malloch, 1930
• Actia destituta Tachi & Shima, 1998[10]
• Actia diffidens Curran, 1933[12]
• Actia dimorpha O'Hara, 1991[11]
• Actia dubitata Herting, 1971[3]
• Actia eucosmae Bezzi, 1926
• Actia exsecta Villeneuve, 1936
• Actia fallax (Mesnil, 1954)
• Actia fulvicauda Malloch, 1930
• Actia gratiosa (Mesnil, 1954)
• Actia hargreavesi Curran, 1933
• Actia infantula (Zetterstedt, 1844)[3]
• Actia interrupta Curran, 1933[12]
• Actia jocularis Mesnil, 1957[3]
• Actia lamia (Meigen, 1838)[3]
• Actia lata Malloch, 1930
• Actia linguata Mesnil, 1968
• Actia longilingua (Mesnil, 1954)
• Actia magnicornis Malloch, 1930
• Actia maksymovi Mesnil, 1952[3]
• Actia mimetica Malloch, 1930
• Actia mongolica Richter, 1976[3]
• Actia munroi Curran, 1927
• Actia nigra Shima, 1970[3]
• Actia nigrapex Mesnil, 1977
• Actia nigriventris Malloch, 1935
• Actia nigroscutellata Lundbeck, 1927[3]
• Actia nitidella Villeneuve, 1936
• Actia nitidiventris Curran, 1933[12]
• Actia nudibasis Stein, 1924[3]
• Actia oblimata Mesnil, 1957
• Actia painei Crosskey, 1962
• Actia pallens Curran, 1927
• Actia pamirica Richter, 1974[3]
• Actia parviseta Malloch, 1930
• Actia pellex (Mesnil, 1953)
• Actia perdita Malloch, 1930
• Actia philippinensis Malloch, 1930
• Actia picipalpis (Mesnil, 1954)
• Actia pilipennis (Fallén, 1810)[3]
• Actia pokharana Shima, 1970[13]
• Actia pulex Baranov, 1938
• Actia quadriseta Malloch, 1936
• Actia radialis O'Hara, 1991[11]
• Actia rejecta Bezzi, 1926
• Actia resinellae (Schrank, 1781)
• Actia rubiginosa (Mesnil, 1954)
• Actia rufescens (Greene, 1934)
• Actia russula Mesnil, 1977
• Actia siphonosoma Malloch, 1930
• Actia solida Tachi & Shima, 1998[10]
• Actia sternalis O'Hara, 1991[11]
• Actia takanoi Baranov, 1935
• Actia tarsata Richter, 1980[3]
• Actia triseta (Mesnil, 1954)
• Actia vulpina (Mesnil, 1954)
• Actia yasumatsui Shima, 1970[13]

The following species are unplaced in Siphonini:[2]

• Actia panamensis Curran, 1933[12]

References

1. Andersen, Stig (1996). The Siphonini (Diptera: Tachinidae) of Europe. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica. 33. Leiden: Brill. pp. 1–148. ISBN 90-04-10731-2.
2. O'Hara, James E. (1989). "Systematics of the genus group taxa of the Siphonini (Diptera: Tachinidae)" (PDF). Quaestiones Entomologicae. 25: 1–229.
3. Soós, Á; Papp, L (1993). Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. 11 Anthomyiidae - Tachinidae. Budapest: Hung. Nat. Hist. Mus. pp. 1–624. ISBN 963-05-3910-1.
4. O'Hara, James E.; Shima, Hiroshi; Zhang, Chuntian (2009). "Annotated Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2190: 1–236. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2190.1.1.
5. Chandler, Peter J. (1998). Checklists of Insects of the British Isles (New Series) Part 1: Diptera. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. New Series. 12. London: Royal Entomological Society of London. pp. 1–234. ISBN 0-901546-82-8.
6. Belshaw, Robert (1993). "Tachinid Flies Diptera Tachinidae". Royal Entomological Society Handbooks. Royal Entomological Society of London. 10 (4ai): 170.
7. van Emden, F.I. (1954). "Diptera Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata (I) Section (a) Tachinidae & Calliphoridae" (PDF). Royal Entomological Society Handbooks. Royal Entomological Society of London. 10 (4a): 63–67. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
8. O’Hara, James E.; Cerretti, Pierfilippo (2016). "Annotated catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta, Diptera) of the Afrotropical Region, with the description of seven new genera". ZooKeys (575): 1–344. doi:10.3897/zookeys.575.6072. PMC 4829880. PMID 27110184.
9. Evenhius, N.L. (7 March 2012). "Family Tachinidae". In Evenhuis, N.L. (ed.). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. (online version). Retrieved 22 April 2018.
10. Tachi, T.; Shima, H. (1998). "A systematic study of the genus Actia Robineau-Desvoidy of Japan (Diptera, Tachinidae)" (PDF). Entomological Science. 1 (3): 441–463.
11. O'Hara, James E. (August 1991). "Revision of Nearctic Species of Actia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Tachinidae)". The Canadian Entomologist. 123 (4): 745–776. doi:10.4039/Ent123745-4. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
12. Curran, C.H. (1933). "The North American species of Acia in the American Museum of Natural History" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 614: 1–7. hdl:2246/2045.
13. Shima, Hiroshi (1970). "New Species Of Actia S. Str. From Hong Kong And Nepal (Diptera: Tachinidae)" (PDF). Pacific Insects. Honolulu, Hawaii: Hawaii Biological Survey. 12 (2): 273–277. Actia yasumatsui n. sp. from Hong Kong, and A. pokharana n. sp. from Nepal are described. Illustrations of head in profile and & genitalia are presented.