Curtis Williams Sabrosky (3 April 1910, Sturgis, Michigan – 5 October 1997) was an American

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. He specialized in Diptera, especially Chloropidae. Sabrosky worked at the

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and at the

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, where his collection is now located.

Partial list of publications

Diptera

*Insects of Macquarie Island Diptera Chloropidae, Milichidae ''Pacific Inse''cts 4 (4): 308–311 (1964). *1999, Family-Group Names in Diptera, ''Myia'', 10:1–576. Important systematic/nomenclatural work (PDF format). *With Wirth, WW, Foote, RH and Coulson, JR: ''A Catalog of the Diptera of America North of Mexico''. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC. 1696 pp. (1965).

Asteiidae Asteiidae is a small but widespread family of acalyptrate flies or Diptera. About 130 species in 10 genera have been described worldwide. They are rarely collected. Family description For terms see Morphology of Diptera. Adult asteiids are ...

*Contributions to the knowledge of Old World Asteiidae. ''Revue francaise d'entomologie'' (Nouvelle Serie) 23:216–243.

Chloropidae and Milichidae

*Milichidae and Chloropidae (Diptera from the Batu Caves, Malaya. Pacific Insects 6 (2): 308–311 (1964).

Tachinidae The Tachinidae are a large and variable family of true flies within the insect order Diptera, with more than 8,200 known species and many more to be discovered. Over 1,300 species have been described in North America alone. Insects in this fami ...

*Identification of ''Winthemia'' of America north of Mexico, with a revised key to the females (Diptera, Tachinidae). ''Annals of the Entomological Society of America'' 66: 1035–1041. (1973). *A revised key to the Nearctic species of ''Lespesia'' (Diptera: Tachinidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 73: 63–73 (1980). With

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, Jr. Family Tachinidae (Larvaevoridae). pp. 961–1108 in Stone, A., et al. (eds.), ''A Catalog of the Diptera of America North of Mexico''. United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Handbook 276: 1–1696 (1965). *With R.C. Reardon: Tachinid parasites of the gypsy moth, ''Lymantria dispar'', with keys to adults and puparia. ''Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America'' 10(2): 1–126.(1976).

References

American entomologists 1910 births 1997 deaths 20th-century American zoologists People from Sturgis, Michigan Presidents of the Entomological Society of America Dipterists {{US-entomologist-stub