■ Taxonomic and Host Catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico
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Genus BLEPHAROMYIA Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1889

BLEPHAROMYIA Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1889: 105 (also 1890: 37). Type species: Tachina amplicornis Zetterstedt, 1844 (= Tachina pagana Meigen, 1824), by monotypy [Palearctic].
ICTERICOPHYTO Townsend, 1916a: 626. Type species: Eulasiona spinosa Coquillett, 1897, by original designation.
CELOTROPHUS Reinhard, 1958d: 280. Type species: Celotrophus soporis Reinhard, 1958 (= Eulasiona tibialis Curran, 1927), by original designation.


spinosa (Coquillett, 1897).– Alaska, British Columbia, Ontario, Québec (S&A, 1965).
– Eulasiona spinosa Coquillett, 1897: 53. Type data: holotype female (USNM). Type locality: USA, Alaska, Fort Wrangel.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 291), as Ictericophyto spinosa (Coquillett)*
Lepidoptera, Geometridae
Alsophila pometaria (Harris), Brephos infans Möschler, Erannis tiliaria (Harris)
Lepidoptera, Noctuidae
Pyreferra hesperidago (Guenée)
Lepidoptera, Tortricidae
Pandemis limitata (Robinson)

tibialis (Curran, 1927).– British Columbia, Québec (S&A, 1965), Alaska, Alberta to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, also Ohio, New York, Tennessee, North Carolina (CNC), Virginia (WVU).
– Eulasiona tibialis Curran, 1927c: 149. Type data: holotype female (CNC). Type locality: Canada, Québec, Aylmer.
– Celotrophus soporis Reinhard, 1958d: 281. Type data: holotype male (CNC). Type locality: USA, Ohio, Amherst.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 292), as Ictericophyto tibialis (Curran)*
Lepidoptera, Geometridae
Melanolophia imitata (Walker)

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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