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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 fergusont Azelota diversipes, Chortoicetes terminifera, Macrotona 
australis, Urnisa rugosa (ORTH., Acrididae) [Blackith, 
1967] 
Keyacris interpres, Keyacris marcida, Moraba amicult, 
Moraba keyi, Moraba misilliformis, Moraba viatica, 
and 22 undescribed spp. (ORTH., Eumastacidae) 
[Blackith, 1967] 
Ceracia spp. Coryphistes oe Gastrimargus musicus (ORTH., 
Acrididae 
