■ Taxonomic and Host Catalogue of the
Tachinidae of America North of Mexico
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Genus Compsilura Bouché, 1834
COMPSILURA Bouché, 1834: 58. Type species: Tachina concinnata Meigen, 1824, by subsequent designation of Mik, 1894: 52-53.
concinnata (Meigen, 1824).– Palearctic; introduced and established in northeastern United States and southeastern Canada, west to Minnesota and Illinois, south to Virginia, also British Columbia to California (Sabrosky & Reardon, 1976), Manitoba, Ontario to Nova Scotia (CNC).
– Tachina concinnata Meigen, 1824: 412. Type data: holotype female (NHMW). Type locality: Germany, probably Hamburg (according to Herting, 1984: 32).
| Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 149)* | |||
| Coleoptera, Curculionidae | |||
| Pissodes strobi (Peck) | |||
| Hymenoptera, Cimbicidae | |||
| Cimbex americana Leach | |||
| Hymenoptera, Diprionidae | |||
| Diprion similis (Hartig) | |||
| Hymenoptera, Pamphiliidae | |||
| Neurotoma fasciata (Norton) | |||
| Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae | |||
| Croesus latitarsus Norton, Nematus erythrogaster Norton, Nematus ribesii (Scopoli), Pristiphora geniculata (Hartig), Trichiocampus viminalis (Fallén) | |||
| Lepidoptera, Arctiidae | |||
| Diacrisia virginica (Fabricius), Estigmene acrea (Drury), Euchaetias egle (Drury), Halisidota argentata Packard, Halisidota caryae (Harris), Halisidota harrisii Walsh, Halisidota maculata (Harris), Halisidota tessellaris (J.E. Smith), Hyphantria cunea (Drury), Hyphantria textor (Harris), Hyphantria sp. | |||
| Lepidoptera, Bombycidae | |||
| Bombyx mori Linnaeus | |||
| Lepidoptera, Citheroniidae | |||
| Anisota rubicunda (Fabricius), Anisota senatoria J.E. Smith, Anisota virginiensis (Drury), Anisota spp. | |||
| Lepidoptera, Ctenuchidae | |||
| Ctenucha virginica Charpentier | |||
| Lepidoptera, Danaidae | |||
| Danaus plexippus plexippus (Linnaeus) | |||
| Lepidoptera, Geometridae | |||
| Biston cognataria (Guenée), Cingilia catenaria (Cramer), Ennomos subsignarius (Hübner), Eugonobapta nivosaria (Guenée), Hydria spp. (including H. prunivorata (Ferguson) and/or H. undulata (Linnaeus)), Itame ribearia (Fitch), Lambdina fiscellaria fiscellaria (Guenée), Melanolophia imitata (Walker), Nematocampa filamentaria Guenée, Phigalia titea (Cramer) | |||
| Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae | |||
| Epargyreus clarus (Cramer), Erynnis brizo (Boisduval & LeConte), Erynnis icelus (Scudder & Burgess), Erynnis spp. (including E. horatius (Scudder & Burgess) and/or E. juvenalis (Fabricius)), Erynnis spp., Thymelicus lineola (Ochsenheimer) | |||
| Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae | |||
| Epicnaptera americana (Harris), Malacosoma americanum (Fabricius), Malacosoma californicum pluviale (Dyar), Malacosoma disstria Hübner, Malacosoma spp. | |||
| Lepidoptera, Limacodidae | |||
| Cnidocampa flavescens (Walker) | |||
| Lepidoptera, Lymantriidae | |||
| Dasychira basiflava (Packard), Dasychira spp., Euproctis chrysorrhoea (Linnaeus), Hemerocampa leucostigma (J.E. Smith), Nygmia phaeorrhoea (Donovan), Orgyia antiqua (Linnaeus), Porthetria dispar (Linnaeus), Stilpnotia salicis (Linnaeus) | |||
| Lepidoptera, Megalopygidae | |||
| Megalopyge crispata (Packard) | |||
| Lepidoptera, Noctuidae | |||
| Acronicta americana (Harris), Acronicta brumosa Guenée, Acronicta dactylina (Grote), Acronicta fragilis (Guenée), Acronicta furcifera Guenée, Acronicta grisea Walker, Acronicta hasta Guenée, Acronicta impleta Walker, Acronicta impressa Walker, Acronicta lanceolaria (Grote), Acronicta oblinita (J.E. Smith), Acronicta superans Guenée, Acronicta spp., Alypia octomaculata (Fabricius), Amphipyra pyramidoides Guenée, Calpe canadensis Bethune, Catocala spp., Ceramica picta (Harris), Euthisanotia grata (Fabricius), Lithophane antennata (Walker), Lithophane spp. (including L. disposita Morrison, L. innominata (Smith) and/or L. petulca Grote), Lithophane sp., Phosphila turbulenta Hübner, Plathypena scabra (Fabricius), Plusiodonta compressipalpis Guenée, Polia adjuncta (Boisduval), Polia legitima (Grote), Pseudaletia unipuncta (Haworth), Rhodophora florida Guenée, Scoliopteryx libatrix (Linnaeus), Simyra henrici (Grote), Trichoplusia ni (Hübner), Xylena sp. | |||
| Lepidoptera, Notodontidae | |||
| Cerura occidentalis Linter, Datana angusii Grote & Robinson, Datana integerrima Grote & Robinson, Datana major Grote & Robinson, Datana ministra (Drury), Datana perspicua Grote & Robinson, Fentonia marthesia (Cramer), Heterocampa guttivitta (Walker), Heterocampa umbrata Walker, Ichthyura inclusa Hübner, Nadata gibbosa (J.E. Smith), Pheosia rimosa Packard, Schizura badia (Packard), Schizura concinna (J.E. Smith), Schizura ipomaeae Doubleday, Schizura unicornis (J.E. Smith), Symmerista albifrons (J.E. Smith), Symmerista canicosta Franclemont | |||
| Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae | |||
| Agraulis vanillae incarnata (Riley), Chlosyne harrisii (Scudder), Chlosyne nycteis (Doubleday), Euphydryas phaeton (Drury), Limenitis archippus (Cramer), Limenitis astyanax (Fabricius), Nymphalis antiopa (Linnaeus), Nymphalis milberti (Godart), Nymphalis vau-album j-album (Boisduval & LeConte), Polygonia comma (Harris), Polygonia interrogationis (Fabricius), Vanessa atalanta (Linnaeus), Vanessa virginiensis (Drury) | |||
| Lepidoptera, Oecophoridae | |||
| Dasystoma salicellum (Hübner) | |||
| Lepidoptera, Papilionidae | |||
| Battus philenor (Linnaeus), Papilio glaucus Linnaeus, Papilio polyxenes polyxenes Fabricius, Papilio troilus Linnaeus | |||
| Lepidoptera, Pieridae | |||
| Pieris rapae (Linnaeus) | |||
| Lepidoptera, Pterophoridae | |||
| Oidaematophorus homodactylus (Walker) | |||
| Lepidoptera, Pyralidae | |||
| Evergestis straminalis (Hübner), Ostrinia nubilalis (Hübner) | |||
| Lepidoptera, Saturniidae | |||
| Antheraea polyphemus (Cramer), Automeris io (Fabricius), Callosamia promethea (Drury), Hemileuca maia (Drury), Hemileuca oliviae Cockerel1, Hemileuca spp. (including H. lucina H. Edwards and/or H. maia (Drury)), Platysamia cecropia (Linnaeus) | |||
| Lepidoptera, Sphingidae | |||
| Ampeloeca myron (Cramer), Amphion nessus (Cramer), Atreides plebeius (Fabricius), Ceratomia catalpae (Boisduval), Ceratomia undulosa (Walker), Deidamia inscriptum (Harris), Hemaris thysbe (Fabricius), Hyles gallii (Rottenburg), Hyles lineata (Fabricius), Manduca quinquemaculata (Haworth), Paonias excaecata (J.E. Smith), Paonias myops (J.E. Smith), Pholus achemon (Drury), Pholus satellitia pandorus (Hübner), Smerinthus cerisyi Kirby, Smerinthus jamaicensis (Drury), Sphecodina abbottii Swainson, Sphinx chersis (Hübner), Sphinx drupiferarum J.E. Smith, Sphinx gordius Cramer | |||
| Lepidoptera, Tortricidae | |||
| Archips argyrospilus (Walker), Archips cerasivoranus (Fitch), Choristoneura fumiferana (Clemens) | |||
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.
