| Sub-family:TACHININAE |
Tribe: SIPHONINI |
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| Synonyms: pilipennis (Fallen, 1810 - Tachina)
[=broteas (Walker, 1849 - Tachina)]
[=excensa (Walker, 1853 - Tachina)] |
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| Shaw & Ford (1991): Anthophila fabriciana (L.): 2 males, 4 females, 1., 30.v.61, 24.vi.61, Perthshire (M.R.S.); 2 males, 3 females, 13.vi.81, 1.vii.81, vii.81, Selkirkshire (M.R.S.); 1 male, 2 females, 2.vii.77, 11.vii.77, 20-28.vii.77, Yorkshire (T.H.F.); Eutromula pariana (Clerck): 1 female, 1., 26.vii.84, 29.vii.84, 29.vii.84, FRANCE [Alpes Maritimes] (M.R.S.); Hypatima rhomboidella (L.): 1 female, 1., 29.vi.83, 19.vii.83, Cornwall (J.L.G.); Lozotaenua forsterana (Fabricius): 2 females, 1., 23.v.84, Cornwall (J.L.G.); Acleris rufana (Denis & Schiffermuller): 1 male, 1., 22.viii.54, 24.ix.54, Argyllshire (E.C.P-C.). Known to parasitise a wide range of microlepidoptera. |
| Belshaw (1993): Pupates within the spun leaves of the host.
Hosts: a wide range of stem-boring and concealed microlepidoptera. In Britain: Choreutidae - Anthophila fabniciana (NHM on nettle; 3 in Ford & Shaw, 1991). Gelechiidae - Hypatima rhomboidella (Ford & Shaw, 1991). Oecophoridae -Agonoptenix uliceteila on Ulex minor (Ford & Shaw, 1991). Pterophoridae -Pterophorus pen tadactyla (UMM). Tortricidae - Acleris aspersana (Emden, 1954), Acleris rufana (Ford & Shaw, 1991), Acleris logiana (UMO), Aphelia vibunnana on Pious contorta or Abies pnocera (Winter, 1974), ?Archips podana on Laburnum (UMM), Croesia bergmanniana (Emden, 1954), Cydia gemmiferana (NHM), Ditula angustiorana on Malus (Hey, 1935), Endothenia pullana (NHM), Lozo-taenia forsterana (Ford & Shaw, 1991), Pandemis corylana (Matthey, 1967) on Quercus (Cheng, 1967), Pandemis cenasana on Quercus robur (UMO), Ptycholoma lecheana on Quercus nobur (UMO),. Tortnix vinidana (NHM; 3 UMO on Quercus robur). Also from unidentified hosts on Hedena and Spinaea salicifolia.
British distribution: England, Wales, S.Scotland (Selkirk*), N.Scotland and Ireland (Kerry*).
Flight period: end of May to late August, peaking late June and early August (at least 50 records). |
| Tschorsnig (1994): Europe to Scandinavia; SH NS NW HE RP BW BY NB / A CH. Deciduous woodland bushes. Early May to End September at least 2 generations. On foliage or in Malaise traps; not rare. Numerous Tortricidae (especially Tortrix) rarer from a few other Microlepidoptera. |
| JNCC Calypterate Review (1996): - |
| Shaw & Ford (2000): Caloptilia syringella (Fabricius) on Syringa: 1 female ex prepupa 16.vii.98 23.vii.98 1.viii.98 Sheffield Yorkshire (THF); Cnephasia sp. on Urtica: 1 male ex larva puparium collected 22.vii.93 3.viii.93 FRANCE [Limogne Lot] (MRS); Xerocnephasia rigana (Sodoffsky) on low Clematis: 8 males 9 females ex larvae 15.vii.93 vii-viii.93 FRANCE [B+doin Vaucluse] (MRS); Acleris hastiana (L.) on Salix salvifolia: 2 females 11.iv.94 8-11.v.94 PORTUGAL [Bordeira] (MFVC); indet. tortricid on Myrica: 1 male ex larva 1.ix.89 ix.89 25.x.89 Aberfoyle Perthshire (MRS); 1 male 19.vi.88 5.vii.88 Loch Tulla Argyll (RPK-J); indet. larva on Salix: 1 male 19.vii.86 9.viii.86 West Cornwall (JLG); indet. microlepidopteran on Rosa: 1 female ex larva or prepupa 1997 Staffordshire (LM). C. syringella X. rigana and A. hastiana are new host records. |
| Comments: - |
| GBGRB: P |
GBNI: - |
IE: P |
GBCI: - |
| BRC #: 14605 |
BENHS: 7.6 12 |
GB Status: |
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| Legend: GBGRB=Great Britain, GBNI=Northern Ireland, IE=Ireland,
GBCI=Channel Islands (P=present or -=absent); BENHS indicates whether the BENHS
collection has it and which draw/column it is in. Status is taken from the JNCC
Calypterate Review (1996) and the JNCC Recorder package (1997). Synonyms were
taken from a number of sources but most notably the most recent Checklist of
British Diptera by Peter Chandler. |
| Acknowledgements: Many thanks to all the authors who let me
use their information to construct this database. If there are spelling mistakes
they were introduced by me during transcription and should not reflect on the
original authors. |
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