■ Taxonomic and Host Catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico
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Genus Neomintho Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1891

NEOMINTHO Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1891: 35 (also 1892: 339). Type species: Tachina macilenta Wiedemann, 1830, by subsequent designation of Townsend, 1916e: 8 [Neotropical].
EUPELECOTHECA Townsend, 1919a: 169. Type species: Eupelecotheca celer Townsend, 1919, by original designation.
PANTAGATHUS Reinhard, 1935b: 168. Type species: Pantagathus alogus Reinhard, 1935 (= Eupelecotheca celer Townsend, 1919), by original designation.


celeris (Townsend, 1919).– Kansas, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Jersey, District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida (Arnaud, 1963), Manitoba, Illinois, Ontario, Québec, New Brunswick (CNC), West Virginia (WVU).
– Eupelecotheca celer Townsend, 1919a: 169. Type data: holotype female (USNM). Type locality: USA, District of Columbia, Rock Creek.
– Pantagathus alogus Reinhard, 1935b: 169. Type data: holotype female (USNM). Type locality: USA, Iowa, Ames.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 218), as Eupelecotheca celer Townsend*
Lepidoptera, Limacodidae
Packardia ceanothi Dyar

curulis (Reinhard, 1943).– Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia (Arnaud, 1963), Mexico, Texas (CNC), Florida (FSCA).
– Pantagathus curulis Reinhard, 1943c: 18. Type data: holotype female (CNC). Type locality: USA, Louisiana, Baton Rouge.

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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