A Critical Revision of Host Records of Palearctic Tachinidae (Diptera) until 1937

Annotated catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta, Diptera) of the Afrotropical Region, with the description of seven new genera

“…The primary sources for extralimital distributions were Herting (1984) and Herting and Dely-Draskovits (1993) for the Palaearctic Region, Fauna Europaea ( Tschorsnig et al 2004 ) for Europe, Tschorsnig and Báez (2002) for Spain, Portugal and Andorra (and associated islands), Cerretti and Freidberg (2009) for Israel, Cerretti (2010) for Italy, Dawah (2011) for Saudi Arabia, Zeegers (2007) for Yemen, Zeegers (2010) for United Arab Emirates, Richter (2004) for the Russian Far East, Shima (2014) for Japan, O’Hara et al (2009) for China, Crosskey (1976) for the Oriental Region, Cantrell and Crosskey (1989) for the Australasian and Oceanian regions, Australian Faunal Directory ( Ginn 2012 ) for Australia, O’Hara and Wood (2004) for America north of Mexico (herein as Nearctic Region), and Guimarães (1971) for America south of the United States (herein as Neotropical Region). Other literature on the Tachinidae published after the foregoing sources supplemented these primary references.…”

“…The classification adopted here recognizes the usual four subfamilies— Dexiinae , Exoristinae , Phasiinae and Tachininae —a classificatory scheme that has been generally accepted since the time of Herting’s (1984) Palaearctic catalogue (e.g., Wood 1987 , Tschorsnig and Richter 1998 , Ziegler 1998 , O’Hara and Wood 2004 , Richter 2004 , O’Hara et al 2009 , Cerretti 2010 , and Shima 2014 ). Crosskey (1980b) recognized five subfamilies, the aforementioned four (the Exoristinae as Goniinae ) plus the Dufouriinae .…”

“… Crosskey (1980b) recognized five subfamilies, the aforementioned four (the Exoristinae as Goniinae ) plus the Dufouriinae . The last was recognized by Verbeke (1962a) in his detailed study of tachinid male terminalia but most authors since Herting (1984) have afforded this taxon tribal status within the Dexiinae .…”

“…They have since been moved to the Dexiinae but there has been no consensus on how to treat them tribally with the exception of Wagneriini being included within the Voriini . O’Hara and Wood (2004) recognized the Campylochetini , Thelairiini and Voriini as distinct tribes, O’Hara et al (2009) recognized only the Campylochetini and Voriini (with Thelairiini included in the latter), and other authors placed all of these taxa in the Voriini (e.g., Herting 1984 , Tschorsnig and Herting 1994 , Ziegler 1998 , Cerretti 2010 ). We have elected to recognize the single tribe Voriini , which is consistent with the phylogenetic analysis of Cerretti et al (2014) .…”

“…Nevertheless, it suited Crosskey’s desire to construct keys that would first sepa rate tribes and then genera within tribes. His classification was already at odds with the advances being made in tachinid relationships by Mesnil, Herting and Verbeke ( O’Hara 2013 ), but it was the publication of Herting’s (1984) catalogue of Palaearctic Tachinidae that was most influential in galvanizing support for a more phylogenetic classification of the family.…”