Alachua may refer to: *

Alachua County, Florida Alachua County ( ) is a county in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 278,468. The county seat is Gainesville, the home of the University of Florida since 1906, when the campus ope ...

, United States *

Alachua, Florida Alachua ( ) is the second-largest city in Alachua County, Florida and the third-largest in North Central Florida. According to the 2020 census, the city's population was 10,574. The city is part of the Gainesville metropolitan area, which had a ...

, a city in Alachua County, Florida *

Alachua culture The Alachua culture is a Late Woodland Southeast period archaeological culture in north-central Florida, dating from around 600 to 1700. It is found in an area roughly corresponding to present-day Alachua County, the northern half of Marion Coun ...

, the archaeological designation of the Native American culture in north-central Florida, c. AD 700 to 1700 *

Alachua Formation The Alachua Formation is a Miocene geologic formation in Florida. The claystones, sandstones and phosphorites of the formation preserve many fossils of mammals, birds, reptiles and fish, among others megalodon. Fossil content The formation has ...

, a geological formation in Florida * ''Alachua'', a former genus of wasps in the family

Eulophidae The Eulophidae are a large family of hymenopteran insects, with over 4,300 described species in some 300 genera. The family includes the genus ''Elasmus'', which used to be treated as a separate family, "Elasmidae", and is now treated as a subf ...

, presently a junior synonym of ''

Horismenus ''Horismenus'' is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae occurring primarily in the Americas. over 400 species in the genus have been described. ''Horismenus'' species are often described as parasitizing other insects. Refere ...

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