Leschenaultia Explained

Leschenaultia is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.^{[1] [2]}

Species

• Leschenaultia adusta (Loew, 1872)^[3] – United States (California, Arizona, New Mexico), Mexico (Sonora, Durango)
• Leschenaultia aldrichi Toma & Guimarães, 2002^[4] – Brazil (São Paulo, Santa Catarina)
• Leschenaultia americana (Brauer & von Berganstamm, 1893) – Canada (British Columbia, Alberta), United States (Oregon, Montana, Idaho, California, Arizona)
• Leschenaultia arnaudi Toma & Guimarães, 2002^[4] – Haiti
• Leschenaultia barbarae Toma, 2008^[5] – Venezuela
• Leschenaultia bergenstammi Toma & Guimarães, 2002^[4] – Brazil (Santa Catarina), Peru (San Martín)
• Leschenaultia bessi Toma & Guimarães, 2002^[4] – Brazil (São Paulo, Santa Catarina)
• Leschenaultia bicolor (Macquart, 1846)^[6]
• Leschenaultia bigoti Toma & Guimarães, 2002^[4] – Canada, United States, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina
• Leschenaultia blanchardi Toma & Guimarães, 2002^[4] – Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil
• Leschenaultia braueri Toma & Guimarães, 2002^[4] – Ecuador
• Leschenaultia brooksi Toma & Guimarães, 2002^[4] – Mexico, Panama, Peru, Brazil
• Leschenaultia ciliata (Macquart, 1848)^[7] – Colombia (Bogotá)
• Leschenaultia coquilletti Toma & Guimarães, 2002^[4] – Brazil (Santa Catarina)
• Leschenaultia cortesi Toma & Guimarães, 2002^[4] – Venezuela, Colombia
• Leschenaultia currani Toma & Guimarães, 2002^[4] – Brazil (São Paulo, Santa Catarina)
• Leschenaultia exul (Townsend, 1892)^[8] – Canada (Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick), United States (Maine, New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland)
• Leschenaultia fulvipes (Bigot, 1887)^[9] – Canada (British Columbia, Saskatchewan), United States (Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas)
• Leschenaultia grossa Brooks, 1947^[10] – United States (Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico)
• Leschenaultia halisidotae Brooks, 1947^[10] – Canada (British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec), United States (Minnesota, Maine, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, California, Arizona)
• Leschenaultia hospita Reinhard, 1952^[11] – Mexico (Michoacán, Oaxaca, Morelos), United States (New Mexico)
• Leschenaultia hystrix (Townsend, 1915) – Peru (Matucana)
• Leschenaultia jurinioides (Townsend, 1895)^[12] – Jamaica
• Leschenaultia leucophrys (Wiedemann, 1830)^[13] – Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil
• Leschenaultia loewi Toma & Guimarães, 2002^[4] – Mexico (Veracruz)
• Leschenaultia macquarti Toma & Guimarães, 2002^[4] – United States (Arizona)
• Leschenaultia montagna (Townsend, 1912)^[14] – Peru
• Leschenaultia nigricalyptrata (Macquart, 1855)^[15]
• Leschenaultia nuda Thompson, 1963^[16] – Trinidad
• Leschenaultia proseni (Blanchard, 1959)
• Leschenaultia reinhardi Toma & Guimarães, 2002^[4] – Canada (British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec), United States (Oregon, Idaho, Ohio, California, Tennessee
• Leschenaultia sabroskyi Toma & Guimarães, 2002^[4] – United States (California, Arizona)
• Leschenaultia schineri Toma & Guimarães, 2002^[4] – United States (Oregon, California, Idaho)
• Leschenaultia thompsoni Toma & Guimarães, 2002^[4] – Mexico (Mexico City, Chiapas)
• Leschenaultia townsendi Toma & Guimarães, 2002^[4] – Mexico (Puebla)

One species, Leschenaultia nigrisquamis (Townsend, 1892),^[17] was not examined in the most recent monograph of the genus, because the type material is missing, and two former species were not recognised:

• Leschenaultia trichopsis (Bigot, 1887)^[9]
• Leschenaultia hirta Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

Notes and References

1. Web site: O’Hara . James E. . Henderson . Shannon J. . D. Monty . Wood . Preliminary Checklist of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of the World. Tachinidae Resources . 21 August 2023 . 5 March 2020.
2. Web site: Checklist Of The Tachinidae (Diptera) Of America North Of Mexico . James E. . O'Hara . Wood, D. Monty . 28 January 2004 . Biodiversidad de Nicaragua . Nicaragua . 1–42 .
3. Loew . Hermann . Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. Centuria decima . Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift . 1872 . 16 . 49–124 . 10.1002/mmnd.18720160110 . 25 July 2021.
4. Toma . R. . Guimarães . H. . Taxonomic study of Leschenaultia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Tachinidae) . Revista Brasileira de Entomologia . 2002 . 46 . 33–70. 10.1590/S0085-56262002000100006 . 83677860 . free .
5. Toma . R. . A new species of Leschenaultia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Tachinidae) from Venezuela and new geographical records . Rev. Bras. Ent. . 2008 . 52 . 3 . 353–354. 10.1590/S0085-56262008000300007 . 85163189 . free .
6. Book: Macquart . P.J.M. . Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Supplement. [1] ]. 1846 . Mem. Soc. R. Sci. Agric. Arts . Lille . 133–364, 20 pls . 5 December 2020.
7. Macquart . Pierre-Justin-Marie . Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Suite du 2.me supplement. [=Suppl. 3] (2) . Mem. Soc. R. Sci. Agric. Arts, Lille . 1848 . 1847 . 2 . 161–237, 7 pls.
8. Townsend . C. H. T. . 1892 . Notes on North American Tachinidae, with descriptions of new genera and species.Paper V . The Canadian Entomologist . Entomological Society of Canada . 24 . 3. 64–70 . 10.4039/ent2464-3. 251410039 . 21 February 2015.
9. Bigot . J.M.F. . [Diagnoses de quelques espèces nouvelles de Diptères] . Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France . Série 6 . 1887 . 7 . cxxxix-cxlii.
10. Brooks . A.R. . A revision of the North American species of Leschenaultia sens. lat. (Diptera, Larvaevoridae) . The Canadian Entomologist . 1947 . (1946) 78 . 169–182, 3 pls.
11. Reinhard . H.J. . New genera and species of muscoid Diptera . Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society . 1952 . 47 . 1–12.
12. Townsend . C.H.T. . Contributions to the dipterology of North America. I. Syrphidae; II. Tabanidae, Conopidae, Tachinidae, etc . Transactions of the American Entomological Society . 1895 . 22 . 33–80.
13. Book: Wiedemann . Christian Rudolph Wilhelm . Aussereuropäische Zweiflügelige Insekten . 1830 . 2 . 21 April 2020.
14. Townsend . C.H.T. . Description of new genera and species of muscoid flies from the Andean and Pacific Coast regions of South America . Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus. . 1912 . 43 . 1935 . 301–367 . 10.5479/si.00963801.1935.301 . 9 June 2023.
15. Book: Macquart . P.J.M. . Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. 5.e supplément . 1855 . Roret . Paris . 5–136.
16. Thompson . W.R. . The tachinids of Trinidad. III. The goniines with microtype eggs (Dipt. Tachinidae) . Studia Entomologica . 1963 . 6 . 257–404.
17. Townsend . C.H.T. . New North American Tachinidae [part.] ]. Entomological News, and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . 1892 . 3 . 80–81 . 3 August 2023.