© Entomologica Fennica. 30 March 2009 Annotated host catalogue for the Tachinidae (Diptera) of the Czech Republic Jaromir Vafihara*, Hans-Peter Tschorsnig, Benno Herting’r, Petr Mfickstein & Veronika Michalkova J P. & V. Vanhara, ., Tschorsnig, H.-P., Herting, B., Miickstein, Michalkova, 2009: Annotated host catalogue for the Tachinidae (Diptera) of the Czech Re- public. — Entomol. Fennica 20: 22—48. An annotated host catalogue is given for the Tachinidae ofthe Czech Republic. It comprises 149 of476 tachinid species which are currently known from this coun- try (included the two new records cited below). 195 hosts are listed. The first host records ofTachinidae date back to the second halfofthe 19th century. The bibli- ography for the host records consists of 1 16 papers of 55 researchers. Several re- cords of hitherto unpublished material are included. Phryxe setifacies and Anthomyiopsis plagioderae are first records for the Czech Republic. J. Vanhara (*corresponding author), Masaryk University, Faculty ofScience, Kotlarska 2, CZ—6I I 3 7 Brno, Czech Republic, [email protected] H.—P. Tschorsnig, Staatliches Museumflir Naturkunde, Rosenstein I, D— 70 191 Stuttgart, Germany, tschorsnig.smns@naturkundemuseum—bw.de P. Muckstein Administration of the Protected Landscape Area Zd’drske' vrchy, Brnenska 39, CZ—591 01 Zd’dr nad Sazavou, Czech Republic, muchstein @email.cz V. Michalkova, Masaryk University, Faculty ofScience, Kotlarska 2, CZ—6I I 3 7 Brno, Czech Republic, [email protected] Received 22 August 200 7, accepted 21 January 2008 1. Introduction The tachinid species are listed in their actual valid nomenclature; probable misidentifications Tachinidae are a very large and important dipter- are — if possible — tentatively corrected, but the an family of (mainly) insect parasitoids. This original name is always given in parenthesis, and study provides for the first time a critical host cat- a comment is added in case ofcorrections. Wrong alogue for Tachinidae ofthe Czech Republic. It is or most probably wrong records that cannot be based on a compilation of literature records from corrected are set in square brackets. Possible rea- the Czech Republic as well as on revisions ofma- sons for wrong records — which are not rare in lit- terial (see below). There was a thorough search of erature — are either misidentifications of the literature, but there is nevertheless no guarantee tachinid or misassociated hosts or both. Misiden— that every record was found by the authors, be- tifications of tachinids were frequent, especially cause host records of Czech Tachinidae are very during the 19th and early 20th century, because of scattered in many journals, sometimes only ap- the lack of true specialists of this difficult group, pearing as marginal footnotes. but they still happen today when workers in ap- ENTOMOL. FENNICA Vol. 20 ° Host cataloguefor Tachinidae 23 plied entomology hesitate to contact specialists. lished breeding records of Tachinidae, which Wrong host associations easily happen in soil they periodically received from other colleagues samples (forest litter) or in mass rearings when (e. g. R. von Stein). The material ofthe lepidopter- various hosts can be hidden among the plant ma- ist Richard Ritter von Stein (abbreviated terial. Uncertainties in the tachinid identification “Rtt. v. Stein” or “R. v. Stein” in Brauer & Ber- can be solved when the tachinid material is still genstamm 1891, 1894) most probably originates available for study, but even if a revision yields from W Bohemia, namely Chodov (=Chodau), the correct identification of a tachinid, the host nr. Karlovy Vary, where von Stein lived (Koleska might nevertheless be wrong. Such cases cannot 1993), but possibly also from other places in B0- be solved, but they can be at least commented on hemia where he collected (e.g. Sumava Mts. etc.). or tentatively corrected in the light ofthe present- The Czech entomologist A. Vimmer was the day knowledge of the host-range of the tachinid only one who worked on Tachinidae of lepidop- species (mainly based on revisions and compila- terous hosts at the beginning of the 20th century, tions ofEuropean host records done by Hans-Pe- especially soon after Czechoslovakia was estab- ter Tschorsnig and the late Benno Herting). lished (see Vimmer 1906—1938). References of the general parts (Introduction Tachinids were intensively studied by for- etc.) quoted below are cited in full. They can be estry researchers for pest control between World found in the References ofthis paper, or ifthey in- Wars I and II (Kolubajiv, Komarek, Pfeffer, clude factual host information, they are listed in Rfiiicka). One result of this period was the first the section 5. “Host record bibliography”. parasitoid catalogue on Lymantria monacha of Kolubajiv & Pfeffer (1931) summarized also by Kolubajiv (1937), however with no exact infor- 1.1. Short outline of the history mation on localities. These older findings were of host/tachinid investigations later also used by Kudler (1954). Kolubajiv in the Czech Republic (1962) used them again, but he added additional breeding records. Tachinids from the present-day Czech Republic At the end ofthe 1930s, some research was or- have been studied since the first faunistic record ganized by foreigners to study parasitoids of Eu- from 1791 (Preyssler et al. 1793), but the knowl- ropean forest pests that had been introduced into edge ofthe diversity and especially ofthe hosts of Canada. Two papers on hosts in their pupal stage, this family is as incomplete as in most other Euro- which were massively exported from central Eu- pean countries. The most recent information on ropean countries for purposes of biological con- Czech Tachinidae is given by Vanhara et al. trol, were published later (Finlayson & Finlayson (2004), Tschorsnig et al. (2005), Vanhara & 1958a, 1958b). The agriculture research branch, Tschorsnig (2006), and Muckstein et al. (2007). especially of the Czech sugar industry, searched The first data on tachinid hosts originate from also for new ways to combat sugar-beet pests us- the second halfofthe 19th century when the area ing biological control methods (Rambousek ofthe present-day Czech Republic was part ofthe 1928, 1929). Between 1933 and 1942, D. Jacent— old Austrian-Hungarian Empire (Kirchner 1861; kovsky recorded several hosts of tachinids in Wachtl 1882, 1886; Gold 1893, 1895; Mik & Moravia, though his papers were rather focused Wachtl 1895). The rearings were first and fore- on faunistics with a special emphasis on practical most intiated by studies on parasitoids of insect forestry. pests which caused severe damage in coniferous From the 1950s on, J. Cepelak systematically forests during that time. Wachtl reared also many studied hosts, particularly in cooperation with M. other lepidopterous hosts, but he published only a Capek, and some others. Although their papers small part of it. were predominantly focused on Slovakia, there Brauer and Bergenstamm, both experts on were also some records from the Czech Republic. Diptera, worked in the Museum at Vienna on Applied forestry research also brought new Tachinidae at the end of the 19th century. They knowledge about the hosts of tachinids during (Brauer & Bergenstamm 1891, 1894) also pub- this period (Hochmut, Kalandra, Martinek, Ur- 24 Vafiham et al. ° ENTOMOL. FENNICA Vol. 20 ban, etc.). Many records are scattered in various lows Herting & Dely-Draskovits (1993), but journals (Kletecka, Rezac, Samsinakova, Samal, updated nomenclature to this relevant cata- Weiser, Zuska, etc.). logue is listed below. Names used in the origi- Recently there have been attempts to system- nal papers are always cited in parentheses atically search for new hosts of tachinids (e.g. when they were different (synonyms, differ- Muckstein et al. 2004, 2007). Our future projects ent combinations, emendations, misspellings will use molecular-genetic methods, which could or misidentifications), with an explanatory perhaps help to explain phylogeny and possible comment if necessary. coevolutionary interactions between Tachinidae — Right column: Hosts are arranged for each and their hosts. tachinid in the systematic order of the “Host- parasitoid list”. The host names which were used in the original papers are cited after “-as” 1.2. Revisionary work when they were different, followed by an ex- planatory comment if necessary. Wrong or Most revisionary work concerning reared Czech presumably wrong hosts are set in square Tachinidae was done by the late B. Herting, who brackets “[ ]. studied the old tachinid collections in NHMW during several visits in the late 1950s. The results “Host-parasitoid list” (Section 4) were integrated in his book on the “Biologie der — Left column: Host orders are arranged as fol- westpalaarktischen Tachinidae” from 1960. The lows: Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Hymenopte- reared material stored in NHMW was — as far as it ra, Dermaptera. The arrangement and nomen- could be found — studied again during a visit by clature of Lepidoptera follows Lastfivka & H.-P. Tschorsnig in 1988, leading to a few correc- Liska (2005), the one for Coleoptera corre- tions and additions to Herting’s results. The sponds with Jelinek (1993), and the arrange- tachinid collection of the Forestry and Game ment of the hymenopteran families, genera Management Research Institute of Stmady near and species is alphabetical, their valid scien- Prague (Vyzkumny ustav lesniho hospodarstvi a tific names according to http://www. myslivosti) was revised by B. Herting between faunaeur.org. 1995 and 1997, and his unpublished list could be — Right column: The tachinids are arranged in used for the present publication. The large collec- order of their importance for the host, the tion of Wachtl was completely revised by H.-P. most important or specific parasitoids are Tschorsnig and B. Herting during 1996 and 2002 mentioned first, doubtful or very uncommon (see Tschorsnig & Herting 2005). Hence, it is hosts have an asterisk “*”, wrong or presum- clear that B. Herting — although deceased in 2004 ably wrong hosts are cited in square brackets — must be a coauthor ofthe present paper. Recent “[ 1”. material sent by several Czech dipterists (M. Bartak, J. Vanhara, P.