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

PLAGIOMIMA Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1891: 80 (also 1892: 384). Type species: Plagiomima disparata Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1891, by monotypy [Neotropical].
SIPHOPLAGIA Townsend, 1891b: 349. Type species: Siphoplagia anomala Townsend, 1891 (= Heteropterina spinosula Bigot, 1889), by original designation.
SIPHOPLAGIOPSIS Townsend, 1917a: 123. Type species: Siphoplagiopsis similis Townsend, 1917, by original designation.


abdominalis Aldrich, 1926.– Colorado (S&A, 1965).
– Plagiomima abdominalis Aldrich, 1926a: 27. Type data: holotype female (USNM). Type locality: USA, Colorado, Denver.


alternata Aldrich, 1926.– Ohio, Florida (S&A, 1965).
– Plagiomima alternata Aldrich, 1926a: 27. Type data: holotype male (USNM). Type locality: USA, Florida, White Springs.


auriceps Aldrich, 1926.– Ohio to Maryland, south to Georgia (S&A, 1965).
– Plagiomima auriceps Aldrich, 1926a: 28. Type data: holotype male (USNM). Type locality: USA, Virginia, Mathias Point.


brevirostris Reinhard, 1962.– Arizona (S&A, 1965), Mexico (CNC).
– Plagiomima brevirostris Reinhard, 1962b: 219. Type data: holotype female (CAS). Type locality: USA, Arizona, Santa Cruz County, 10 miles southwest of Patagonia.


cognata Aldrich, 1926.– Iowa to New Jersey, south to Texas and North Carolina (S&A, 1965).
– Plagiomima cognata Aldrich, 1926a: 27. Type data: holotype male (USNM). Type locality: USA, Maryland, College Park.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 441)*
Lepidoptera, Noctuidae
Heliothis spp.

euethes Reinhard, 1957.– Arizona (S&A, 1965).
– Plagiomima euethes Reinhard, 1957: 104. Type data: holotype male (CNC). Type locality: USA, Arizona, 10 miles north of Sedona.


faceta Reinhard, 1957.– Texas, Mexico (S&A, 1965), New Mexico, Kansas (CNC).
– Plagiomima faceta Reinhard, 1957: 105. Type data: holotype male (CNC). Type locality: USA, Texas, Plainview.


haustellata Reinhard, 1944.– Utah, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas (S&A, 1965).
– Plagiomima haustellata Reinhard, 1944b: 59. Type data: holotype male (SEMK). Type locality: USA, Kansas, Anderson County.


similis (Townsend, 1917).– New York and New Jersey to South Carolina, also Colorado, Illinois, Texas (S&A, 1965), Oklahoma (CNC).
– Siphoplagiopsis similis Townsend, 1917a: 124. Type data: holotype female (USNM). Type locality: USA, Maryland, Grove Hill.


spinosula (Bigot, 1889).– California, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas (S&A, 1965), Saskatchewan, Ontario, Oklahoma, Kansas, Indiana (CNC).
– Heteropterina spinosula Bigot, 1889: 262. Type data: holotype male [not female as published] (BMNH). Type locality: North America.
– Siphoplagia anomala Townsend, 1891b: 350. Type data: syntypes, 3 females (2 female syntypes in SEMK) (mention by Townsend, 1939a: 398, of "Ht female" in SEMK is not regarded as a lectotype fixation because the specimen in question cannot be distinguished from among the 2 female syntypes in SEMK). Type locality: USA, New Mexico, Las Cruces (on flowers of Aster spinosus).

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 441) for probably spinosula (Bigot)*
Lepidoptera, Noctuidae
Heliothis spp.

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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