The Tachinidae are a large and variable family of true flies within the insect order Diptera, with more than 8,200 known species and many more to be discovered. Over 1300 species have been described in North America alone. Insects in this family commonly are called tachinid flies or simply tachinids. As far as is known, they all are protelean parasitoids, or occasionally parasites, of arthropods, usually other insects. The family is known from many habitats in all zoogeographical regions and is especially diverse in South America.
The Tortricidae are a family of moths, commonly known as tortrix moths or leafroller moths, in the order Lepidoptera. This large family has over 11,000 species described, and is the sole member of the superfamily Tortricoidea, although the genus Heliocosma is sometimes placed within this superfamily. Many of these are economically important pests. Olethreutidae is a junior synonym. The typical resting posture is with the wings folded back, producing a rather rounded profile.
Archips oporana, also known as the pine tortrix or spruce tortrix is a moth of the family Tortricidae, found in Asia and Europe. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758.
Protodeltote pygarga, the marbled white spot, is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Palearctic realm.
Choristoneura murinana is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in central Europe and the Near East, China, Taiwan and in North America.
Tachina fera is a species of fly in the genus Tachina of the family Tachinidae. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1761.
Rhyacionia is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Olethreutinae of the family Tortricidae.
Ditula angustiorana, the red-barred tortrix, is a moth of the family Tortricidae found in Africa, Asia, Europe and North Africa. Other common names are the fruit-tree tortrix and the vine tortrix. The moth was first described by Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1811.
Retinia resinella, the pine resin-gall moth, is a moth of the family Tortricidae.
Rhyacionia duplana, the summer shoot moth or Elgin shoot moth when referring to subspecies logaea, is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found from northern and central Europe to eastern Russia, China and Japan. It has also been reported from Korea, but it has not been found in recent studies.
Rhyacionia pinivorana, the spotted shoot moth, is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found from northern and central Europe to eastern Russia, China, Korea and Japan.
Rhyacionia frustrana, the Nantucket pine tip moth, is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in the United States from Massachusetts south to Florida, west to Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and California. It is also found in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico (Oaxaca), Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.
Compsilura concinnata is a parasitoid native to Europe that was introduced to North America in 1906 to control the population of an exotic forest, univoltine, spongy moth named Lymantria dispar. It is an endoparasitoid of larvae and lives with its host for most of its life. Eventually the parasitoid ends up killing the host and occasionally eating it. It attacks over 200 host species, mainly insects from the Orders: Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera. Since this parasite has the ability to attack many different types of hosts, the organism has spilled over from the intended forest systems into other areas, like agricultural fields, affecting cabbage pests including the cabbage looper (Trichoplusia); the cabbage worm ; and even other invasive species such as the brown-tail moth. However, it also attacks native, non-pest insects such as the Cecropia moth and American moon moth.
Rhyacionia bushnelli, the western pine tip moth, is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in the United States, including Alabama, Nebraska, North Dakota and Montana.
Eucosma monitorana, the red pinecone borer moth, is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in North America, including Pennsylvania, Ontario, Wisconsin and Maryland.
Rhyacionia subtropica, the subtropical pine tip moth, is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in the United States in southern Alabama and Florida. It has also been recorded from Cuba and Belize.
Actia nudibasis is a Palearctic species of flies in the family Tachinidae.
Nemorilla floralis is a species of tachinid fly.
Exoteleia dodecella, the pine bud moth, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is widely distributed from western Europe to Siberia. It is an introduced species in North America.
Cydia servillana is a moth of the family Tortricidae which forms galls on the young shoots of willow. It was first described by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel in 1836.
