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are those considered valid in the taxonomic catalogue (Part II). The names of 

 hosts are those considered currently valid and are arranged alphabetically within 

 each host family; when two or more families are represented in the host list 

 pertaining to any parasite then each begins on a separate line. The order and 

 family of the host(s) are shown in parentheses after the host name(s), and the 

 following abbreviations are used for the host orders: COL., Coleoptera; HEM., 

 Hemiptera; HYM., Hymenoptera; LEP., Lepidoptera; MANT., Mantodea; ORTH., 

 Orthoptera; PHAS., Phasmatodea. Subgeneric names are omitted for both 

 tachinids and hosts. Authors' names are omitted for both parasite and host 

 species: those of the Tachinidae can be found in the taxonomic catalogue 

 (Part II) and those for the hosts are given in the 'host-parasite list' (beginning 

 on p. 178). 



The great majority of host records are derived from data on tachinid specimens 

 in the British Museum (Natural History) collection or from host data published 

 with the original tachinid descriptions, or from both, and these are the sources 

 of information unless a host name is annotated by an entry in square brackets. 

 Annotations in square brackets refer to host records that are accepted as correct, 

 either on the basis of a published record that is unexceptionable or on the basis 

 of tachinid specimens from known hosts examined and identified by me and 

 housed in an Australian departmental collection. In citing such collections the 

 following abbreviations are used: NSWDA, New South Wales Department of 

 Agriculture, Rydalmere; QDPI, Queensland Department of Primary Industries, 

 Brisbane; WARI, Waite Agricultural Research Institute, South Australia. These 

 abbreviations are only used when the collections to which they refer contain 

 species from known hosts that are not duplicated by specimens in the BMNH 

 collection; when specimens of any tachinid parasite from the same host are housed 

 both in the BMNH collection and in NSWDA, QDPI or WARI then no annotation 

 is given. 



Whenever such information has been available the hosts are listed for 

 undescribed or undeterminable species as well as those for which specific identities 

 are known. Similarly, hosts are indicated for known tachinid parasites in instances 

 where the host identities are not fully known. 



Tachinid Parasites Hosts 



ACEMYINI 



Ceracia fergusoni Azelota diversipes, Chortoicetes ter mini f era, Macrotona 



australis, Urnisa rugosa (ORTH., Acrididae) [Blackith, 

 1967] 

 Keyacris interpres, Keyacris marcida, Moraba amiculi, 

 Moraba keyi, Moraba misilliformis , Moraba viatica, 

 and 22 undescribed spp. (ORTH., Eumastacidae) 

 [Blackith, 1967] 



Ceracia spp. Coryphistes longipennis, Gastrimargus musicus (ORTH., 



Acrididae) 



