■ Taxonomic and Host Catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico
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Genus Hemisturmia Townsend, 1927

HEMISTURMIA Townsend, 1927: 262 (as Humisturmia, in error; see p. 316 for correct spelling). Type species: Hemisturmia carcelioides Townsend, 1927, by original designation [Neotropical].
PSEUDOLOMYIA Reinhard, 1962a: 175. Type species: Pseudolomyia scissilis Reinhard, 1962, by original designation.


parva (Bigot, 1889).– British Columbia to Vermont, south to California, Mexico, Mississippi, and New Jersey (S&A, 1965), Québec, District of Columbia, Florida (CNC), West Virginia (WVU).
– Phorocera parva Bigot, 1889: 260. Type data: holotype male [not female as published] (BMNH). Type locality: "Rocky Mountains."
– Phorocera tortricis Coquillett, 1897: 103. Type data: holotype male (USNM). Type locality: USA, Missouri.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 278), as Hemisturmia tortricis (Coquillett)*
Lepidoptera, Glyphipterygidae
Anthophila pariana (Clerck)
Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae
Nymphalis antiopa (Linnaeus)
Lepidoptera, Olethreutidae
Ancylis comptana (Frölich)
Lepidoptera, Pterophoridae
Pterophorus periscelidactylus Fitch
Lepidoptera, Pyralidae
Acrobasis indigenella (Zeller)
Lepidoptera, Tortricidae
Acleris minuta (Robinson), Acleris variana (Fernald), Archips argyrospilus (Walker), Archips cerasivoranus (Fitch), Archips rileyanus (Grote), Argyrotaenia velutinana (Walker), Choristoneura fumiferana (Clemens), Choristoneura pinus Freeman, Choristoneura rosaceana (Harris)
Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 428), as "Phorocera parva Bigot"*
Lepidoptera, Pyralidae
Loxostege similalis (Guenée), Udea rubigalis (Guenée)
Lepidoptera, Tortricidae
Argyrotaenia citrana (Fernald)

scissilis (Reinhard, 1962).– Arizona, Texas, Ohio (S&A, 1965), Maryland (CNC).
– Pseudolomyia scissilis Reinhard, 1962a: 176. Type data: holotype male (CNC). Type locality: USA, Ohio, Amherst.

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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