■ Taxonomic and Host Catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico
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Genus Siphosturmia Coquillett, 1897

SIPHOSTURMIA Coquillett, 1897: 37, 83. Type species: Argyrophylax rostrata Coquillett, 1895, by original designation.
SIPHOSTURMIOPSIS Townsend, 1915i: 91. Type species: Siphosturmiopsis rafaeli Townsend, 1915, by original designation [Neotropical].
MICROSILLUS Aldrich, 1926e: 20. Type species: Houghia baccharis Reinhard, 1922, by original designation.


baccharis (Reinhard, 1922).– Texas (S&A, 1965).
– Houghia baccharis Reinhard, 1922: 332. Type data: holotype female (USNM). Type locality: USA, Texas, College Station (on blossoms of Baccharis halimifolia L.).


confusa Reinhard, 1931.– California to Texas (S&A, 1965), Alberta (O'Hara, 2014).
– Siphosturmia confusa Reinhard, 1931b: 6. Type data: holotype male (USNM). Type locality: USA, Texas, College Station.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 459)*
Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae
Euphydryas editha taylori (Edwards)

maltana Reinhard, 1951.– Montana, California, New Mexico (S&A, 1965), Idaho (CNC).
– Siphosturmia maltana Reinhard, 1951: 7. Type data: holotype male (CNC). Type locality: USA, Montana, Malta.


melampyga (Reinhard, 1931).– Washington, New Mexico, Texas, Illinois to Vermont, Florida (S&A, 1965), Yukon, British Columbia, Colorado, Ontario, Québec, Tennessee, New Jersey, Virginia, North Carolina (CNC).
– Siphosturmiopsis melampyga Reinhard, 1931b: 9. Type data: holotype female (USNM). Type locality: USA, Texas, College Station.


melitaeae (Coquillett, 1897).– California (S&A, 1965), British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, Arizona, Mexico (CNC).
– Demoticus melitaeae Coquillett, 1897: 121. Type data: holotype female (USNM). Type locality: USA, California, Siskiyou County. Type host: Charidryas palla (Boisduval) [published as Melitaea palla], Nymphalidae.
– Siphosturmiopsis rufiventris Reinhard, 1934c: 18. Type data: holotype female (CNC). Type locality: USA, California, Monrovia Canyon.


oteroensis (Reinhard, 1934).– New Mexico (S&A, 1965), California, Utah (CNC).
– Siphosturmiopsis oteroensis Reinhard, 1934c: 16. Type data: holotype female (USNM). Type locality: USA, New Mexico, Otero County.


phyciodis (Coquillett, 1897).– Kansas to Massachusetts, south to Texas and North Carolina (S&A, 1965), British Columbia to Québec, also Colorado, Florida (CNC).
– Sturmia phyciodis Coquillett, 1897: 109. Type data: holotype male (USNM). Type locality: USA, Massachusetts (Cape Cod) or Maryland (Piney Point) according to localities cited in original description (holotype lacks locality data). Type host: Phyciodes sp., Nymphalidae.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 460)*
Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae
Phyciodes tharos (Drury), Phyciodes spp.

rostrata (Coquillett, 1895).– Ohio to Maryland, south to Texas and Florida (S&A, 1965), Illinois (CNC).
– Argyrophylax rostrata Coquillett, 1895d: 106. Type data: holotype male (MCZ). Type locality: USA, Alabama, Mobile.

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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