Choristoneura
Creators: name: O'Hara, James E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Key to adults of tachinid parasitoids of Nearctic Choristoneura species   
1. Eye bare or very sparsely haired.................................................................................. 2  
– Eye densely haired (Figs. 1–3)...................................................................................... 4  
 2. Wing vein R 1 bare dorsally ...................................................... Ceromasia auricaudata   
 – Wing vein R 1 haired dorsally along most of its length (Figs. 12–13)........................... 3   
 3. Wing vein CuA 1 usually bare dorsally (very rarely with 1–3 hairs) and distal portion of CuA 1 0.27–0.38 length of proximal portion (Fig. 12); male with flagellomere 1 not enlarged (Fig. 37) .................................................................................... Actia diffidens   
 – Wing vein CuA 1 usually haired dorsally most of distance to crossvein dm­cu (very rarely with as few as 4 hairs) and distal portion of CuA 1 0.37–0.51 length of proximal portion (Fig. 13); male with flagellomere 1 enlarged (Fig. 38) ........... Actia interrupta   
 4. Prosternum bare .................................................................................. Lypha fumipennis   
– Prosternum haired (Fig. 14)......................................................................................... 5  
 5. Katepisternum with four setae (Fig. 4) ........................................................ Nilea erecta   
– Katepisternum with two or three setae (Figs. 5–6, 11)................................................. 6  
6. Facial ridge haired on 1/2 or more of distance between vibrissa and lower margin of scape (Figs. 1–2).......................................................................................................... 7  
– Facial ridge haired on 1/3 or less of distance between vibrissa and lower margin of scape (Fig. 3)............................................................................................................... 11  
 7. Eye very large, distance between eye and lower margin of head in lateral view not wider than basal width of maxillary palpus (Fig. 43); two katepisternal setae; katepimeron haired along most of length ......................................... Hemisturmia parva   
– Eye smaller, distance between eye and lower margin of head in lateral view several times wider than basal width of maxillary palpus (Figs. 1–2); three katepisternal setae (Figs. 5–6); katepimeron bare or with one to several hairs anteriorly (Fig. 11)........... 8  
8. Maxillary palpus (Fig. 2) dark coloured; katepisternum with lowermost seta nearly equidistant between outer two setae (Fig. 6)................................................................ 9  
– Maxillary palpus yellow; katepisternum with lowermost katepisternal seta closer to anterior than posterior seta (as in Fig. 5)..................................................................... 10  
Abbreviations: ad s, anterodorsal setae; a kepst s, anterior katepisternal seta; ar 3, aristomere 3; a scut s, apical scutellar seta; d scut s, discal scutellar seta; fc rd s, facial ridge setae; l fr s, lowermost frontal seta; l kepst s, lowermost katepisternal seta; max plp, maxillary palpus; oc s, ocellar seta; pafc h, parafacial hairs; p kepst s, posterior katepisternal seta.  
Abbreviations (not including veins and crossveins): f cx, fore coxa; h cx, hind coxa; kepm, katepimeron; kepst, katepisternum; trn sut, transverse suture.  
 9. Facial ridge with hairs decreasing to tiny size on upper portion of haired area (Fig. 1); aristomere 3 evenly tapered to tip (Fig. 1) ........................... Phryxe pecosensis, in part   
 – Facial ridge with strong setae only (Fig. 2); aristomere 3 thickened along most of length and tapered near tip (Fig. 2) ............................................ Madremyia saundersii   
 10. Scutellum (Fig. 11) with posterior half orange; discal scutellar setae narrowly separated, distance between them not greater than distance between apical scutellar setae (Fig. 7); female with tiny non­piercing ovipositor; ocellar setae well developed (as in Fig. 3) ............................................................................................... Cyzenis incrassata   
 – Scutellum mostly gray; discal scutellar setae more widely spaced, distance between them twice the distance between apical scutellar setae (Fig. 8); female with long piercing ovipositor (Fig. 40); ocellar setae usually absent or very weak............................... ................................................................................................... Compsilura concinnata   
 11. Parafacial with fine hairs on middle portion (Fig. 3) ..................... Smidtia fumiferanae   
– Parafacial bare (Figs. 1–2) or with a few hairs directly below lowermost frontal seta........................................................................................................................................ 12  
12. Mid tibia with one anterodorsal seta (Fig. 9)............................................................. 13  
– Mid tibia with two or more anterodorsal setae (Fig. 10)............................................ 15
description: Published as part of O'Hara, James E., 2005, A review of the tachinid parasitoids (Diptera: Tachinidae) of Nearctic Choristoneura species (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), with keys to adults and puparia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 938 on pages 5-7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.171153