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Ctesias (; , Ktēsíās), also known as Ctesias the Cnidian or Ctesias of Cnidus, was a Greek physician and historian from the town of Cnidus in Caria. Ctesias, who lived in the 5th century BC, was physician to Artaxerxes Mnemon, whom he accompanied in 401 BC on his expedition against his brother Cyrus the Younger.
Ctesias was the author of treatises on rivers, and on the Persian revenues, of an account of India entitled Indica (Ἰνδικά), and of a history of Assyria and Persia in 23 books, called Persica (Περσικά), written in opposition to Herodotus in the Ionic dialect, and professedly founded on the Persian Royal Archives.
Ctesias is a genus of beetles in the family Dermestidae, the skin beetles. They are distributed in the Palearctic, including Europe. There are about 23 species.
Species include:
- Ctesias dusmae Beal, 1960
- Ctesias fasciata Zhantiev, 1975
- Ctesias gemma Zhantiev, 1976
- Ctesias hajeki Háva, 2005
- Ctesias hebei Háva, 2004
- Ctesias intermedia Mroczkowski, 1961
- Ctesias iranica Háva, 2005
- Ctesias kaliki Mroczkowski, 1961
- Ctesias klapperichi (Pic, 1954)
- Ctesias maculifasciata Reitter, 1899
- Ctesias morocco Háva, 2000
- Ctesias nuratavica Sokolov, 1983
- Ctesias orientalis Zhantiev, 1988
- Ctesias schawalleri Háva, 2002
- Ctesias serra (Fabricius, 1792) – cobweb beetle
- Ctesias similis Háva, 2005
- Ctesias sogdiana Zhantiev, 1975
- Ctesias syriaca Ganglbauer, 1904
- Ctesias tschuiliensis Sokolov, 1972
- Ctesias variegata Arrow, 1915