Curtis Williams Sabrosky

Curtis Williams Sabrosky (3 April 1910, Sturgis, 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, especially Chloropidae.

Sabrosky worked at the Systematic Entomology Laboratory United States Department of Agriculture National Museum of Natural History. His collection is in that museum.

Partial List Publications

• Insects of Macquarie Island Diptera Chloropidae, Milichidae Pacific Insects 4 (4) : 308-311 (1964).

[1] pdf

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

[2] 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

• 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

• 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, Lymantria dispar, with keys to adults and puparia. Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America 10(2): 1-126.(1976).

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Name	Sabrosky, Curtis Williams
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Date of birth	3 April 1910
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Date of death	1997
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