Genus Wagneria, Tachinidae of America North of Mexico

Genus WAGNERIA Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

WAGNERIA Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 126. Type species: Wagneria gagatea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830, by monotypy [Palearctic].

cornuta Curran, 1928.– New Brunswick to Ohio and Connecticut, Massachusetts (S&A, 1965), Ontario (CNC).
– Wagneria cornuta Curran, 1928a: 49. Type data: holotype male (CNC). Type locality: USA, Massachusetts, Melrose Highlands.

major Curran, 1928.– Arkansas, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, also Massachusetts (S&A, 1965).
– Wagneria major Curran, 1928a: 48. Type data: holotype male (USNM). Type locality: USA, Arkansas, Fayetteville (published as Fayeteville, in error).

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 505)*

Lepidoptera, Noctuidae

Choephora fungorum Grote & Robinson

ocellaris Reinhard, 1955.– Washington, Idaho, Oregon, California (S&A, 1965), British Columbia, Arizona (CNC).
– Wagneria ocellaris Reinhard, 1955c: 55. Type data: holotype male (CNC). Type locality: USA, Oregon, Cayuse.

pacata Reinhard, 1955.– Alberta, North Dakota, California, Colorado, Ohio (S&A, 1965), British Columbia, Nevada, Ontario, New Brunswick (CNC).
– Wagneria pacata Reinhard, 1955c: 56. Type data: holotype male (CNC). Type locality: USA, Ohio, Amherst.

vernata West, 1925.– Minnesota to Québec, south to Colorado and Connecticut, also British Columbia, Idaho, California (S&A, 1965), Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland (CNC), Florida (FSCA), West Virginia, Virginia (WVU).
– Wagneria vernata West, 1925: 127. Type data: holotype male (CUI). Type locality: USA, New York, Ithaca.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 505)*

Lepidoptera, Noctuidae

Protorthodes oviducta (Guenée), Xylena sp.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 506) for probably vernata West*

Lepidoptera, Noctuidae

Orthosia hibisci (Guenée)

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 WAGNERIA Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

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