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Genus Oxynops Townsend, 1912

OXYNOPS Townsend, 1912b: 110. Type species: Oxynops serratus Townsend, 1912 (= Degeeria anthracina Bigot, 1889), by original designation.
ELEPHANTOCERA Townsend, 1915j: 98. Type species: Elephantocera greenei Townsend, 1915 (= Degeeria anthracina Bigot, 1889), by original designation.
EUCHAETOPHLEPS Townsend, 1916a: 625. Type species: Chaetophleps polita Coquillett, 1902 (= Degeeria anthracina Bigot, 1889), by original designation.


anthracinus (Bigot, 1889).– North Dakota to Massachusetts, south to New Mexico, Mexico, and Florida (S&A, 1965), Saskatchewan to Ontario (CNC).
– Degeeria anthracina Bigot, 1889: 259. Type data: holotype male [not female as published] (BMNH). Type locality: Mexico.
– Hypostena nitens Coquillett, 1897: 63. Type data: holotype male (USNM). Type locality: USA, Florida, Biscayne Bay.
– Chaetophleps polita Coquillett, 1902b: 107. Type data: holotype male (USNM). Type locality: USA, South Dakota, Brookings.
– Oxynops serratus Townsend, 1912b: 110. Type data: holotype female (USNM). Type locality: USA, Florida, Biscayne Bay, Miami.
– Elephantocera greenei Townsend, 1915j: 99. Type data: holotype male (USNM). Type locality: USA, New Jersey, Wenonah.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 196), as Elephantocera greenei Townsend*
Lepidoptera, Olethreutidae
Grapholitha molesta (Busck)
Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 406)*
Lepidoptera, Pterophoridae
Oidaematophorus homodactylus (Walker), Oidaematophorus monodactylus (Linnaeus)

Oxynops species

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 406) for gen. and sp. near Oxynops*
Lepidoptera, Olethreutidae
Petrova a1bicapitana (Busck)
Lepidoptera, Pyralidae
Dioryctria abietella (Denis & Schiffermüller), Dioryctria cambiicola (Dyar), Dioryctria disclusa Heinrich

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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