Diptera) Until 1937 Author(S): Benno Herting Source: Stuttgarter Beiträge Zur Naturkunde A, 10():41-173
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A critical revision of host records of Palearctic Tachinidae (Diptera) until 1937 Author(s): Benno Herting Source: Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A, 10():41-173. Published By: Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History https://doi.org/10.18476/sbna.v10.a3 URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.18476/sbna.v10.a3 BioOne (www.bioone.org) is a nonprofit, online aggregation of core research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. BioOne provides a sustainable online platform for over 170 journals and books published by nonprofit societies, associations, museums, institutions, and presses. Your use of this PDF, the BioOne Web site, and all posted and associated content indicates your acceptance of BioOne’s Terms of Use, available at www.bioone.org/page/terms_of_use. Usage of BioOne content is strictly limited to personal, educational, and non-commercial use. Commercial inquiries or rights and permissions requests should be directed to the individual publisher as copyright holder. BioOne sees sustainable scholarly publishing as an inherently collaborative enterprise connecting authors, nonprofit publishers, academic institutions, research libraries, and research funders in the common goal of maximizing access to critical research. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A, Neue Serie 10: 41–173; Stuttgart, 30.IV.2017. DOI: 10.18476/sbna.v10.a3 41 A critical revision of host records of Palearctic Tachinidae (Diptera) until 19371 BENNO HERTING (†) Abstract Palearctic tachinid/host records published until 1937 are critically compiled. Zusammenfassung Dieser Katalog listet die bis einschließlich 1937 publizierten paläarktischen Tachiniden/Wirte-Angaben in kri- tischer Weise auf. Contents 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................... 41 2 Chronological records ...........................................................................................................................................42 3 References ........................................................................................................................................................... 143 1 Introduction several gaps were present. In particular the reference section was completely missing (it did not exist because BENNO HERTING This catalogue is a guide to the information on the biol- and HPT had an agreement that the latter would write it one day when the manuscript was finished). So HPT has contributed ogy of Palearctic Tachinidae in publications before 1938. all References, and added also the Abstract, Zusammenfassung, The aim of the revision was to trace the breeding records Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, and Acronyms of depos- to their origin, and to correct erroneous data (caused by itories. HPT also succeeded in finding some literature which misidentification, wrong synonymy, or misquotation) as Benno mentioned but which he was unable to get. far as possible. The old names are translated into up-to- Every record was, as far as this was possible, checked by date nomenclature. HPT against the original source, and obvious mistakes (slips, spelling errors, wrong numbers, wrong or missing diacritics In my book on tachinid biology (HERTING 1960) I had etc.) were corrected without a comment. Concerning the gen- gathered only records that were reliable or at least probably eral text, however, especially the nomenclature of tachinids and right, omitting all questionable data. These are, however, hosts, HPT feels obliged to leave it as BENNO HERTING wanted to existing in the literature and are cited again and again, have it published. He also did not change HERTING’s specific ter- in most cases without knowledge of their origin. A com- minology (e. g. “parasite” instead of “parasitoid”). A few weeks prehensive catalogue of the old records with precise orig- before BENNO HERTING died he put all his effort into explaining inal references and critical evaluation is therefore needed. to HPT that he wanted to have the manuscript published “wie es aus meiner Feder stammt” (= “how I wrote it”). I interpret this as [THOMPSON 1943–1958, referred to as “THOMPSON cata- a kind of last will, so it should be respected. For the benefit of the logue” in the text, is incomplete and in part erroneous.] user, it was, however, necessary to add annotations, e. g. when Comment is separated from the information quoted things were wrong, mistakable, very uncertain, or overlooked. from the original paper either by parentheses (nomencla- HPT’s comments are all written in square brackets, so they are tory changes, corrected determinations) or by a dash. An unambiguously separated from HERTING’s text. asterisk after the serial number indicates that the parasite A few publication data of references needed correction, but because the author had already given consecutive numbers it specimen(s) have been seen and redetermined [usually by was not possible to change the chronological order. the author, but occasionally also other reliable identifiers This chronological catalogue with annotations and recti- were meant with the asterisk]. fications has no systematic parasitoid or host sections, but the larger complete Palearctic tachinid-host catalogue which is cur- [Annotations of HPT: rently being prepared by HPT and which will be published soon When BENNO HERTING died several years ago (for obituary (TSCHORSNIG 2017), has it and can be used for this purpose. This see TSCHORSNIG 2004), he left a large set of unformatted ASCII- major catalogue covers the Palearctic records up to the present files (written on an older electronic type-writer), each compris- and will be – as well as the present text – fully searchable as a ing about three pages of text. The text was widely finished, but pdf-file, which enables the finding of all records, including the 1 completed and annotated by HANS-PETER TSCHORSNIG (HPT). 42 STUTTGARTER BEITRÄGE ZUR NATURKUNDE A Neue Serie 10 ones in the present paper. Contrary to HERTING’s text the actual 2 Chronological records modern nomenclature of tachinids and hosts is applied through- out in this latter catalogue, and synonyms and aberrant spellings GOEDAERT 1662 are given too, as well as the tachinid and host names in full (with (1) p. 160, and pl. LXXI: Host caterpillar with 12 legs author and year).] (= prb. Plusia gamma) [on the host see VOLLENHOVEN 1877: 312], its pupa, 3 tachinid puparia and 3 adult flies (= prb. Phryxe vul- Abbreviations garis) [this remains assumption because the figures do not pro- vide reliable characters]. The parasite larvae left the host pupa in n. sp. new species August, the flies emerged on 7th September. misid. misidentified, misidentification prb. probable, probably GOEDAERT 1669 prov. province (2) p. 10, and pl. F: Host caterpillar on cauliflower, pupa and International vehicle registration codes (D, F, GB etc.) are adult moth (= Mamestra brassicae) [on the host see VOLLENHOVEN often used as abbreviations for countries. 1877: 317]. 12 tachinid larvae came out of one caterpillar on 10.IX.1663, they hibernated as puparia, the 12 flies emerged on Acronyms of depositories 2.VII.1664 (= prb. Siphona cristata). – The drawing of the fly is BMNH British Museum of Natural History, London, very inexact, but the biological data suggest this determination. United Kingdom [MERIAN 1679, see TSCHORSNIG 2017] CMBK City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom MERIAN 1683 ETHZ Entomologisches Institut der ETH Zürich, Swit- In some of her pictures of the metamorphoses of Lepidop- zerland tera, the paintress has included parasitic flies that had appeared LEWA Laboratorium voor Entomologie, Wageningen, in the rearings. Identification is possible only in one case: The Netherlands (3) p. 93, Taf. XLVII: Voria ruralis ex Abrostola trigemina. MNHN Muséum Na tional d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, The picture shows the characteristic parallel arrangement of France the puparia which are partly covered by the broken host skin. MZHF Zoological Museum, University of Helsinki, As stated in the text, the caterpillars were feeding on Urtica. Finland [Two host species are figured on Taf. XLVII, A. triplasia L. (syn. MZUF Museo Zoologico “La Specola”, Firenze, Italy trigemina Werneburg) on the left side and A. tripartita on the NHMW Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien, Austria right side; according to the text on pp. 93, 94 the flies and the NHRS Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden puparia belong to the right species.] NMBA Naturhistorisches Museum der Benediktiner- BLANKAART 1688 Abtei Admont, Austria (4) p. 76, Pl. IX, fig. L: Parasitic fly (= prb. Huebneria affinis) OXUM University Museum Oxford, Hope entomologi- ex Beir-Rups (= Arctia caja), 8–10 larvae in one host. – Misiden- cal collection, United Kingdom tified as Nemoraea sp. by WEIJENBERGH 1869: 159. Locality prb. RMNH Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden, Amsterdam. The Netherlands SMNS Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, ALBIN 1720 Germany (5) On pls. XIII (= Cucullia verbasci), XVII (= Philudoria TLMF Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Inns- potatoria), XIX (= Malacosoma neustria), and XXIV (= Spilo- bruck, Austria soma lutea), the painter has included parasitic flies reared from UBKW Universität für Bodenkultur, Wien, Austria the caterpillars. – The drawings are inexact, an identification USNM National Museum of Natural History, Washing- is not possible. ROBINEAU-DESVOIDY 1830: 49, states that ALBIN ton, USA has figured Echinomyia cuculliae