■ Taxonomic and Host Catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico
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Genus Leucostoma Meigen, 1803

LEUCOSTOMA Meigen, 1803: 279. Type species: Ocyptera simplex Fallén, 1815, by subsequent monotypy of Meigen, 1824: 234.
CYCLODIONAEA Townsend, 1915m: 233. Type species: Cyclodionaea acuminata Townsend, 1915 (= Musca aterrimum Villers, 1789), by original designation.
PARADIONAEA Townsend, 1916a: 631. Type species: Leucostoma atra Townsend, 1891 (= Ocyptera simplex Fallén, 1815), by original designation.
NEOPSALIDA Townsend, 1916a: 632. Type species: Leucostoma neomexicana Townsend, 1892 (= Musca aterrimum Villers, 1789), by original designation.
PARAPSALIDA Townsend, 1916a: 632. Type species: Phyto nigricornis Townsend, 1892 (= Leucostoma gravipes van der Wulp, 1890), by original designation.
CALYPTROSOMUS Reinhard, 1956c: 105. Type species: Calyptrosomus dapsilis Reinhard, 1956, by original designation.


acirostre Reinhard, 1956.– Washington to California and Texas, also Indiana to New Jersey and Virginia, Mississippi, Florida, ?Kansas, ?Tennessee (S&A, 1965).
– Leucostoma acirostre Reinhard, 1956b: 162. Type data: holotype male (USNM). Type locality: USA, Texas, Brownsville.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 340)*
Hemiptera (Heteroptera), Coreidae
Harmostes reflexulus (Say)

aterrimum (Villers, 1789).– Europe, California to Wyoming and Kansas, south to Mexico and Texas, also Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana (S&A, 1965), British Columbia, Ontario (CNC).
– Musca aterrima Villers, 1789: 548. Type data: holotype male (MNHN). Type locality: Europe.
– Leucostoma neomexicana Townsend, 1892d: 169. Type data: holotype male (SEMK). Type locality: USA, New Mexico, Las Cruces.
– Cyclodionaea acuminata Townsend, 1915m: 234. Type data: holotype female (USNM). Type locality: USA, California, Santa Clara County.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 340)*
Hemiptera (Heteroptera), Rhopalidae
Liorhyssus hyalinus (Fabricius)

dapsile (Reinhard, 1956).– California, Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas (S&A, 1965), New Mexico (CNC).
– Calyptrosomus dapsilis Reinhard, 1956c: 105. Type data: holotype male (CAS). Type locality: USA, California, Red Bluff.


effrenatum Reinhard, 1956.– Utah (S&A, 1965).
– Leucostoma effrenatum Reinhard, 1956b: 165. Type data: holotype male (CNC). Type locality: USA, Utah, Logan Dry Canyon.


gravipes van der Wulp, 1890.– Washington to Nebraska, south to California, Mexico, and Texas, also Michigan to New York, south to Virginia (S&A, 1965), Iowa, Illinois, Tennessee, Ontario, Québec (CNC).
– Leucostoma gravipes van der Wulp, 1890: 207. Type data: holotype male (BMNH). Type locality: Mexico, Guerrero, Xucumanatlan, 7000 feet.
– Phyto nigricornis Townsend, 1892d: 170. Type data: syntypes, 7 males and 1 female (4 male syntypes in SEMK) (mention by Townsend, 1938: 193, of "Ht male" in SEMK is not regarded as a lectotype fixation because the specimen in question cannot be distinguished from among the 4 male syntypes in SEMK). Type locality: USA, New Mexico, Las Cruces.
– Phyto senilis Townsend, 1892d: 81. Type data: holotype male (SEMK). Type locality: USA, New York, Ithaca.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 340)*
Hemiptera (Heteroptera), Lygaeidae
Oncopeltus fasciatus (Dallas)

perrarum Reinhard, 1956.– Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona (S&A, 1965).
– Leucostoma perrarum Reinhard, 1956b: 164. Type data: holotype male (CNC). Type locality: USA, Utah, Duchesne.


politifrons Reinhard, 1974.– California, Arizona (Reinhard, 1974).
– Leucostoma politifrons Reinhard, 1974: 1164. Type data: holotype male (CNC). Type locality: USA, Arizona, Cochise County, Southwestern Research Station.


simplex (Fallén, 1815).– Palearctic, British Columbia to New Hampshire, south to California, Texas, and Virginia (S&A, 1965), Prince Edward Island (CNC).
– Ocyptera simplex Fallén, 1815: 240. Type data: holotype female [not syntypes of both sexes as cited by Herting, 1984: 174] (NHRS). Type locality: Sweden, Småland, Kalmar Län.
– Leucostoma atra Townsend, 1891b: 380. Type data: holotype male (SEMK). Type locality: USA, Illinois, Carlinville.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 340)*
Hemiptera (Heteroptera), Nabidae
Nabis alternatus Parshley, Nabis americoferus Carayon, Nabis roseipennis Reuter
Hemiptera (Heteroptera), Rhopalidae
Liorhyssus hyalinus (Fabricius)
Orthoptera, Acrididae
Melanoplus sanguinipes (Fabricius)

vapulare Reinhard, 1956.– California (S&A, 1965).
– Leucostoma vapulare Reinhard, 1956b: 165. Type data: holotype female (CNC). Type locality: USA, California, near Hobart Mills, Sagehen.


Leucostoma species

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 341) for Leucostoma spp.*
Hemiptera (Heteroptera), Lygaeidae
Lygaeus kalmii Stål

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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