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

GONIOCERA Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1891: 50 (also 1892: 354). Type species: Goniocera schistacea Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1891, by monotypy [Palearctic].
CARTOCOMETES Aldrich, 1929b: 9. Type species: Cartocometes io Aldrich, 1929, by original designation.


io (Aldrich, 1929).– Ontario, New York, Vermont, Massachusetts (S&A, 1965), Québec (CNC), West Virginia (WVU).
– Cartocometes io Aldrich, 1929b: 10. Type data: holotype female (USNM). Type locality: USA, New York, Riverhead.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 126), as Cartocometes io Aldrich*
Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae
Malacosoma americanum (Fabricius), Malacosoma disstria Hübner

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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