■ Taxonomic and Host Catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico
Return to home page of catalogue

Genus Drepanoglossa Townsend, 1891

DREPANOGLOSSA Townsend, 1891b: 377. Type species: Drepanoglossa lucens Townsend, 1891, by original designation.
PHILOCALIA Reinhard, 1939: 70. Type species: Philocalia tenuirostris Reinhard, 1939, by original designation.
EVANALIA Strickland, 1941: 64. Type species: Evanalia medicinensis Strickland, 1941 (= Philocalia tenuirostris Reinhard, 1939), by original designation.


lucens Townsend, 1891.– North Dakota, Colorado, California, Arizona, New Mexico (S&A, 1965), Alberta, Wyoming, Utah (CNC).
– Drepanoglossa lucens Townsend, 1891b: 378. Type data: syntypes, 33 males and females (9 male syntypes in SEMK, 2 syntypes of unknown sex in NYSM and 1 female syntype in USNM) (mention by Townsend, 1940: 280, of "Ht female" in SEMK is not regarded as a lectotype fixation because a female syntype is not present in that collection and none of the 9 male syntypes is labelled as type). Type locality: USA, New Mexico, Las Cruces.


tenuirostris (Reinhard, 1939).– Alberta, Montana, Illinois, Indiana (S&A, 1965).
– Philocalia tenuirostris Reinhard, 1939: 71. Type data: holotype female (CNC). Type locality: USA, Montana, Bozeman.
– Evanalia medicinensis Strickland, 1941: 64. Type data: holotype female (CNC). Type locality: Canada, Alberta, Medicine Hat.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 425), as Philocalia tenuirostris Reinhard*
Lepidoptera, Tineidae
Amydria effrentella 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.

go to top