■ Taxonomic and Host Catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico
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Genus Celatoria Coquillett, 1890

CELATORIA Coquillett, 1890: 235. Type species: Celatoria crawii Coquillett, 1890 (= Tachina diabroticae Shimer, 1871), by original designation.
CHAETOPHLEPS Coquillett, 1895c: 51. Type species: Chaetophleps setosa Coquillett, 1895, by original designation.
NEOCELATORIA Walton, 1914b: 13. Type species: Neocelatoria ferox Walton, 1914 (= Chaetophleps setosa Coquillett, 1895), by monotypy.


diabroticae (Shimer, 1871).– Washington to Massachusetts, south to California, Mexico, and Georgia (S&A, 1965).
– Ocyptera galerucae Harris, 1835: 599. Nomen nudum.
– Tachina diabroticae Shimer, 1871: 219. Type data: syntypes, "5 dry specimens" (whereabouts unknown). Type locality: USA, Illinois.
– Celatoria crawii Coquillett, 1890: 235. Type data: lectotype female (USNM), by fixation of Townsend, 1940: 199 (mention of "Ht female" is regarded as a lectotype fixation); also by designation of Wood, 1985: 94. Type locality: USA, California, Los Angeles. Type host: Diabrotica undecimpunctata Mannerheim [published as Diabrotica soror LeConte], Chrysomelidae.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 127)*
Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae
Acalymma trivittata (Mannerheim), Acalymma vittata (Fabricius), Cerotoma trifurcata (Forster), Diabrotica undecimpunctata Mannerheim, Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi Barber, Diabrotica undecimpunctata undecimpunctata Mannerheim, Diabrotica spp., Trirhabda bacharidis (Weber)

setosa (Coquillett, 1895).– Oregon to Massachusetts, south to California and Georgia (S&A, 1965), Ontario, Québec (CNC).
– Chaetophleps setosa Coquillett, 1895c: 51. Type data: lectotype male (USNM), by fixation of Coquillett, 1897: 59 (statement "From the type specimen" is regarded as a lectotype fixation); also by designation of Wood, 1985: 94. Type locality: USA, Maryland.
– Neocelatoria ferox Walton, 1914b: 13. Type data: holotype female (USNM). Type locality: USA, Maryland, Hyattsville.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 129)*
Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae
Acalymma vittata (Fabricius), Diabrotica undecimpunctata Mannerheim, Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi Barber

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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