Curtis Williams Sabrosky (3 April 1910, Sturgis

Sturgis, Michigan

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, Michigan- October 5, 1997) was an American entomologist. His wife, Laurel, preceded him in death. He had one son, Alan Ned Sabrosky. Dr. Sabrosky specialized in Diptera

Diptera

Diptera , or true flies, is the order of insects possessing only a single pair of wings on the mesothorax; the metathorax bears a pair of drumstick like structures called the halteres, the remnants of the hind wings. It is a large order, containing an estimated 240,000 species, although under half...

, especially Chloropidae

Chloropidae

Chloropidae is a family of flies commonly known as frit flies or grass flies. There are approximately 2000 described species in over 160 genera distributed worldwide. These are usually very small flies, yellow or black and appearing shiny due to the virtual absence of any hairs. The majority of the...

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Sabrosky worked at the Systematic Entomology Laboratory United States Department of Agriculture

United States Department of Agriculture

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 National Museum of Natural History

National Museum of Natural History

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. His collection is in that museum.

Partial List Publications

• Insects of Macquarie Island Diptera Chloropidae, Milichidae
  Milichiidae
  Milichiidae are a family of flies. Most species are very small and dark in colour. Details of their biology have not yet been properly studied, but they are best known as kleptoparasites of predatory invertebrates, and accordingly are commonly known as freeloader flies or jackal flies...
  
   Pacific Insects 4 (4) : 308-311 (1964).

http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pi/pdf/4(4)-973.pdf pdf

• 1999, Family-Group Names in Diptera, Myia, 10:1-576.

http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/Diptera/people/FCT_pdf/FGNAMES.pdf#search=%22family%20group%20names%20diptera%20pdf%22 pdf Important systematic/Nomenclatural Work.

• • 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

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:...

• 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 Hatu Caves, Malaya. Pacific Insects 6 (2) : 308-311 (1964).

Tachinidae

Tachinidae

Tachinidae is a large and rather variable family of true flies within the insect order Diptera, with more than 8,200 known species and many more to be discovered. There are over 1300 species in North America. Insects in this family are commonly called tachina flies or simply tachinids...

• 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 P.H. Arnaud, 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
  Gypsy moth
  The gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, is a moth in the family Lymantriidae of Eurasian origin. Originally ranging from Europe to Asia, it was introduced to North America in the late 1860s and has been expanding its range ever since...
  
  , Lymantria dispar, with keys to adults and puparia. Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America
  Entomological Society of America
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  10(2): 1-126.(1976).