■ Taxonomic and Host Catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico
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Genus Frontiniella Townsend, 1918

FRONTINIELLA Townsend, 1918b: 21. Type species: Frontiniella parancilla Townsend, 1918, by monotypy.
EUFRONTINA Brooks, 1945a: 90. Type species: Frontina spectabilis Aldrich, 1916, by original designation.


apache O'Hara, 1993.– Arizona (O'Hara, 1993).
– Frontiniella apache O'Hara, 1993: 29. Type data: holotype male (USNM). Type locality: USA, Arizona, Sulphur Draw south of Portal.


ethniae (Brooks, 1945).– Ontario, Québec (O'Hara, 1993), Virginia (WVU).
– Eufrontina ethniae Brooks, 1945a: 91. Type data: holotype male (CNC). Type locality: Canada, Ontario, Ottawa, Central Experimental Farm. Type host: Ethmia longimaculella (Chambers) (as Ethnia longimaculella Clem., in error), Oecophoridae.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 216), as Eufrontina ethniae Brooks*
Lepidoptera, Ethmiidae
Ethmia longimaculella (Clemens)

festinans (Aldrich & Webber, 1924).– New Mexico (O'Hara, 1993).
– Phorocera (Neopales) festinans Aldrich & Webber, 1924a: 85. Type data: holotype male (USNM). Type locality: USA, New Mexico, Manzano National Forest, Hell Canyon, 7200 feet (on foliage of Quercus).

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 175) for probably "festinans (Aldrich & Webber)", as probably "Cyzenis festinans (Aldrich & Webber)"*
Lepidoptera, Olethreutidae
Pseudexentera improbana oregonana (Walsingham)

incarcerata O'Hara, 1993.– Arizona (O'Hara, 1993), Texas (CNC).
– Frontiniella incarcerata O'Hara, 1993: 19. Type data: holotype male (CNC). Type locality: USA, Arizona, Graham County, 2.4 miles (as kilometres, in error) west on Highway 366 from Highway 666 (now Highway 191), 1160 metres.


jorgenseni O'Hara, 1993.– Arizona, New Mexico, Texas (O'Hara, 1993).
– Frontiniella jorgenseni O'Hara, 1993: 24. Type data: holotype male (CNC). Type locality: USA, New Mexico, Chaves County, 20 miles northwest of Kenna.


mitis (Curran, 1930).– Southern Canada and northeastern United States (O'Hara, 1993).
– Phorocera mitis Curran, 1930b: 108. Type data: holotype male (AMNH). Type locality: USA, New York, Tuxedo, Station for the Study of Insects.


parancilla Townsend, 1918.– Widespread throughout the United States except unrecorded from the prairies (O'Hara, 1993).
– Frontiniella parancilla Townsend, 1918b: 21 (as pararcilla, in error; named for ancilla of Coquillett, 1897, not Walker, 1853). Type data: holotype male (USNM). Type locality: USA, Michigan, Benton Harbor.
– Achaetoneura stilla Reinhard, 1943c: 17. Type data: holotype male (CNC). Type locality: USA, Texas, College Station.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 264)*
Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae
Gnorimoschema sp.
Lepidoptera, Pyralidae
Tetralopha scortealis (Lederer)

regilla (Reinhard, 1959).– British Columbia, California, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico (O'Hara, 1993).
– Phorocera regilla Reinhard, 1959a: 158. Type data: holotype male (CAS). Type locality: USA, California, San Mateo County, Redwood City.


spectabilis (Aldrich, 1916).– British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Québec, Maine, New Hampshire, West Virginia, North Carolina (O'Hara, 1993).
– Frontina spectabilis Aldrich, 1916a: 21. Type data: holotype female (CNC). Type locality: Canada, Ontario, Parry Sound, Waubamik (published as Wabamic, in error).

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 216), as Eufrontina spectabilis (Aldrich)*
Lepidoptera, Pyralidae
Canarsia ulmiarrosorella (Clemens), Tetralopha asperatella (Clemens), Tetralopha robustella Zeller

surstylata O'Hara, 1993.– Manitoba, Ontario, Massachusetts, Florida (O'Hara, 1993).
– Frontiniella surstylata O'Hara, 1993: 22. Type data: holotype male (USNM). Type locality: USA, Florida, Union County, near Olustee. Type host: Tetralopha robustella Zeller, Pyralidae.

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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