Genus Phyllophilopsis, Tachinidae of America North of Mexico

Genus PHYLLOPHILOPSIS Townsend, 1915

PHYLLOPHILA Townsend, 1915b: 21 (junior homonym of Phyllophila Guenée, 1852). Type species: Chaetona nitens Coquillett, 1899, by original designation.
PHYLLOPHILOPSIS Townsend, 1915c: 78 (nomen novum for Phyllophila Townsend, 1915).

evanida Reinhard, 1958.– New York and Massachusetts to Virginia (S&A, 1965), Ohio, Ontario, Québec (CNC).
– Phyllophilopsis evanida Reinhard, 1958b: 233. Type data: holotype female (USNM). Type locality: USA, Virginia, Clark County, Shenandoah River.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 440)*

Coleoptera, Endomychidae

Endomychus biguttatus Say

nitens (Coquillett, 1899).– Ohio to Maine, south to Georgia (S&A, 1965), Tennessee, Michigan, Ontario, Québec, New Brunswick (CNC).
– Chaetona nitens Coquillett, 1899: 221. Type data: holotype female (USNM). Type locality: USA, New Hampshire, Franconia.

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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Taxonomic and Host Catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico

Genus PHYLLOPHILOPSIS Townsend, 1915

Taxonomic and Host Catalogue of the Tachinidae
of America North of Mexico