■ Taxonomic and Host Catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico
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Genus Gymnoclytia Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1893

GYMNOCLYTIA Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1893: 69 (also 1894: 157). Type species: Cistogaster divisa Loew, 1863 (= Gymnosoma occidua Walker, 1849), by monotypy.
PROCISTOGASTER Townsend, 1934: 208. Type species: Procistogaster ferruginea Townsend, 1934 (= Cistogaster immaculata Macquart, 1844), by original designation.
SIPHOPALLASIA Brooks, 1946: 225. Type species: Gymnosoma dubia West, 1925, by original designation.


dubia (West, 1925).– Manitoba to Nova Scotia, south to Virginia, also ?California (S&A, 1965), British Columbia, Texas (CNC).
– Gymnosoma dubia West, 1925: 121. Type data: holotype male (CUI). Type locality: USA, New York, Ithaca.
– Cistogaster atrota Reinhard, 1935b: 173. Type data: holotype female (CNC). Type locality: USA, Ohio, Amherst.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 275)*
Hemiptera (Heteroptera), Pentatomidae
Cosmopepla bimaculata (Thomas)

immaculata (Macquart, 1844).– British Columbia to Québec, entire United States, Mexico (S&A, 1965).
– Cistogaster immaculata Macquart, 1844: 233 (also 1844: 76). Type data: holotype male (MNHN). Type locality: USA, "Carolina."
– Cistogaster pallasii Townsend, 1891a: 142 (Townsend, 1891a: 142, mentioned that pallasii might be synonymous with Gymnosoma atra Robineau-Desvoidy (1830: 238), a nominal species of unknown country of origin that does not appear in a regional catalogue; if this synonymy is correct, then atra has date priority over immaculata). Type data: holotype female (SEMK). Type locality: USA, South Dakota, Brookings.
– Procistogaster ferruginea Townsend, 1934: 208. Type data: holotype male (DEI). Type locality: "America" (probably Mexico according to Townsend, 1934: 209).

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 275)*
Hemiptera (Heteroptera), Pentatomidae
Euschistus variolarius (Palisot de Beauvois)
Lepidoptera, Noctuidae
Pseudaletia unipuncta (Haworth)

minuta Brooks, 1946.– New Jersey, District of Columbia, Virginia, Texas (S&A, 1965), Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Rhode Island (CNC).
– Gymnoclytia minuta Brooks, 1946: 227. Type data: holotype female (MCZ). Type locality: USA, New Jersey, Ramsay.


occidentalis Townsend, 1908.– British Columbia, Idaho, California, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico (S&A, 1965), Washington (CNC).
– Gymnoclytia occidentale Townsend, 1908: 128. Type data: holotype female (USNM). Type locality: USA, New Mexico, Beulah.


occidua (Walker, 1849).– Michigan to Nova Scotia, southwest to Arizona, Mexico, and Georgia (S&A, 1965), Illinois to Virginia, Texas (CNC).
– Gymnosoma occidua Walker, 1849: 692. Type data: holotype female (BMNH). Type locality: Canada, Nova Scotia.
– Cistogaster divisa Loew, 1863: 321. Type data: holotype male (MCZ). Type locality: USA, Connecticut.
– Eliozeta americana Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1891: 84 (also 1892: 388). Type data: syntypes, unknown number of males and females (1 male syntype in USNM, 2 male syntypes and 1 female syntype in NHMW [originally 5 syntypes in NHMW according to Aldrich, 1924a: 218]). Type locality: USA, Georgia.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 276)*
Hemiptera (Heteroptera), Pentatomidae
Euschistus variolarius (Palisot de Beauvois)
Lepidoptera, Pieridae
Pieris protodice Boisduval & LeConte, Pieris rapae (Linnaeus)

unicolor (Brooks, 1946).– California, Utah, Texas, Arkansas, North Carolina, Florida, also Michigan (S&A, 1965).
– Procistogaster unicolor Brooks, 1946: 229. Type data: holotype female (CNC). Type locality: USA, Texas, College Station.

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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