Genus Solieria, Tachinidae of America North of Mexico

Genus SOLIERIA Robineau-Desvoidy, 1849

SOLIERIA Robineau-Desvoidy, 1849: 461. Type species: Tachina inanis Fallén, 1810, by subsequent designation of Coquillett, 1910b: 606 [Palearctic].
NEOFISCHERIA Townsend, 1908: 74. Type species: Neofischeria flava Townsend, 1908, by original designation.
PARAFISCHERIA Townsend, 1908: 74. Type species: Drepanoglossa venatoris Coquillett, 1895 (= Masicera eucerata Bigot, 1889), by monotypy.
APACHEMYIA Townsend, 1908: 75. Type species: Demoticus pallidus Coquillett, 1897, by monotypy.
PARADEMOTICUS Townsend, 1916a: 629. Type species: Demoticus piperi Coquillett, 1897, by original designation.
SOLIERIOPSIS Reinhard, 1967a: 99. Type species: Solieriopsis boreotis Reinhard, 1967, by original designation.

boreotis (Reinhard, 1967).– Alaska (Reinhard, 1967), Yukon (CNC).
– Solieriopsis boreotis Reinhard, 1967a: 100. Type data: holotype male (CNC). Type locality: USA, Alaska, Umiat.

eucerata (Bigot, 1889).– Washington to California and Colorado (S&A, 1965), Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico (CNC).
– Masicera eucerata Bigot, 1889: 263. Type data: holotype female (BMNH). Type locality: USA, California.
– Drepanoglossa venatoris Coquillett, 1895b: 127. Type data: holotype female (USNM). Type locality: USA, Washington.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 410), as Parafischeria eucerata (Bigot)*

Lepidoptera, Aegeriidae

Synanthedon bibionipennis (Boisduval)

flava (Townsend, 1908).– Illinois to Connecticut, south to Virginia (S&A, 1965), North Carolina (CNC).
– Neofischeria flava Townsend, 1908: 75. Type data: holotype male (USNM). Type locality: USA, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

pallida (Coquillett, 1897).– Oregon to Montana, south to California and New Mexico (S&A, 1965).
– Demoticus pallidus Coquillett, 1897: 121. Type data: holotype female [not male as published] (USNM). Type locality: USA, Colorado, Denver.

piperi (Coquillett, 1897).– British Columbia to California, also Colorado (S&A, 1965), Yukon, Northwest Territories, Manitoba to Québec, Newfoundland (CNC).
– Demoticus piperi Coquillett, 1897: 122. Type data: holotype male (USNM). Type locality: USA, Washington, Blue Mountains.

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 SOLIERIA Robineau-Desvoidy, 1849

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