Genus Icelia, Tachinidae of America North of Mexico

Genus ICELIA Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

ICELIA Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 224. Type species: Icelia flavescens Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830, by subsequent designation of Townsend, 1916e: 7 [Neotropical].
ERVIA Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 225. Type species: Ocyptera triquetra Olivier, 1812, by monotypy.
PARANAPHORA Townsend, 1908: 72 (named for triquetra of Coquillett, 1897, not Olivier, 1812). Type species: Paranaphora diademoides Townsend, 1908 (= Ocyptera triquetra Olivier, 1812), by original designation.

triquetra (Olivier, 1812).– Kansas to New York, south to Central America and Georgia (S&A, 1965), Brazil (CNC).
– Ocyptera triquetra Olivier, 1812: 423. Type data: holotype male (not in MNHN according to Townsend,1931a: 92; in MNHN according to Townsend, 1939b: 71, and Thompson, 1963a: 446). Type locality: USA, "Carolina."
– Tachina mestor Walker, 1849: 741. Type data: holotype male (BMNH). Type locality: North America (as New Zealand, in error).
– Paranaphora diademoides Townsend, 1908: 73. Type data: holotype female (USNM). Type locality: USA, Mississippi, Agricultural College.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 201), as Ervia triquetra (Olivier)*

Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae

Monocesta coryli (Say)

Reference:

Arnaud, P.H., Jr. 1978. A host-parasite catalog of North American Tachinidae (Diptera). United States Department of Agriculture. Miscellaneous Publication 1319: 1–860.

*Host names (family and species) have not been changed from those given in Arnaud (1978). Each host is listed under the appropriate current tachinid name, with the tachinid name used in Arnaud (1978) cited if different from the current one. For more information about Arnaud (1978), and to see a complete list of tachinid names used in that work and their modern equivalents, click here.

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Taxonomic and Host Catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico

Genus ICELIA Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

Taxonomic and Host Catalogue of the Tachinidae
of America North of Mexico