■ Taxonomic and Host Catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico
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Genus Eulasiona Townsend, 1892

EULASIONA Townsend, 1892a: 119. Type species: Eulasiona comstocki Townsend, 1892, by original designation.
PARALISPIDEA Townsend, 1915b: 20. Type species: Admontia unispinosa Coquillett, 1898, by original designation.
PARAMUSCOPTERYX Townsend, 1915m: 218. Type species: Paramuscopteryx genalis Townsend, 1915, by original designation.
TOWNSENDINA Curran, 1934: 427, 464. Type species: Townsendina fasciata Curran, 1934, by original designation.
LASIONALIA Curran, 1934: 437, 467. Type species: Lasionalia cinerea Curran, 1934, by original designation.
CANELOMYIA Reinhard, 1958d: 282. Type species: Canelomyia fumator Reinhard, 1958, by original designation.


aperta (Reinhard, 1958).– New York, Ohio, Massachusetts (S&A, 1965).
– Paralispidea aperta Reinhard, 1958b: 237. Type data: holotype male (USNM). Type locality: USA, Massachusetts, Waquoit.


cinerea (Curran, 1934).– Washington, California, Minnesota, Ohio, North Carolina (S&A, 1965), Saskatchewan, Kansas (CNC).
– Lasionalia cinerea Curran, 1934: 467. Type data: holotype male (AMNH). Type locality: USA. Minnesota, North Branch.


comstocki Townsend, 1892.– Minnesota to Québec, south to Kansas and Virginia, also British Columbia, California, Arizona, Georgia (S&A, 1965), Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia south to Tennessee and North Carolina, also Mexico, New Mexico (CNC).
– Eulasiona comstocki Townsend, 1892a: 120. Type data: holotype male (SEMK). Type locality: USA, New York, Ithaca.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 216)*
Lepidoptera, Oecophoridae
Psilocorsis sp.
Lepidoptera, Olethreutidae
Epinotia solicitana (Walker), Pseudexentera improbana oregonana (Walsingham)

fasciata (Curran, 1934).– Colorado (S&A, 1965), Utah (CNC).
– Townsendina fasciata Curran, 1934: 464. Type data: holotype male (AMNH). Type locality: USA, Colorado.


fumator (Reinhard, 1958).– Arizona (S&A, 1965), Colorado, New Mexico, Mexico (CNC).
– Canelomyia fumator Reinhard, 1958d: 282. Type data: holotype male (CNC). Type locality: USA, Arizona, Canelo.


genalis (Townsend, 1915).– Washington and Idaho to California and Colorado, also Vermont (S&A, 1965), Yukon, Northwest Territories, North Carolina (CNC).
– Paramuscopteryx genalis Townsend, 1915m: 219. Type data: holotype female (USNM). Type locality: USA, Idaho, Moscow.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 217)*
Lepidoptera, Aegeriidae
Unidentified Aegeriidae

nigra Curran, 1924.– British Columbia to California and Arizona, also ?Michigan (S&A, 1965).
– Eulasiona nigra Curran, 1924a: 194. Type data: holotype male (CNC). Type locality: Canada, British Columbia, Victoria. Type host: Archips rosana (Linnaeus) [published as Cacoecia rosana], Tortricidae.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 217)*
Lepidoptera, Tortricidae
Archips rosanus (Linnaeus)

unispinosa (Coquillett, 1898).– Louisiana, Maryland (S&A, 1965).
– Admontia unispinosa Coquillett, 1898: 234. Type data: holotype female (USNM). Type locality: USA, Louisiana, Opelousas.

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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