spinicornis (Loew), 1866: 181 (Cent. 6, No. 86)

( Tetanocera) [Cresson 1920: 68]

HT: ♀ MCZC, No. MCZT_13224 [examined by Fisher & Orth 1972b: 178. They stated, “The female specimen from the Museum of Comparative Zoology that we presume to be Loew’s type bears the following data: on a red label “ Type 13224,” on a blue label “56/226,” on a white label “ Tetanocera spinicornis .” No locality is given, but we assume it is the specimen from Cuba cited by Loew (1866; 1872 republished)” (emphasis added)]. Also examined by LK 1977.

DIST: CUBA (holotype, specific locality unknown). GUATEMALA (Alta Verapaz: Cobán; Totonicapán: San Cristóbal Totonicapán). JAMAICA (Portland: Port Antonio). MEXICO (Chiapas: Lomatán; Ciudad de México:Acolman de Nezahualcóyotl (Tepexpam); Jalisco:Ixtlahuacan; Michoacán:Pataquero; Oaxaca: Oaxaca; Puebla: Cholula; Veracruz). PUERTO RICO. Also CANADA (Nova Scotia) and UNITED STATES (Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia). Map: Fisher & Orth 1972b

FIGS: Fisher & Orth 1972b (♂ ♀ terminalia), Knutson & Vala 2011 (wing), this paper (habitus, antenna, lateral head)

BIOL: Neff & Berg 1962. BG: 4; PG: 1(?) (and 2?)

HOSTS/PREY OF LARVAE: First-instar larvae fed only on the semiterrestrial pulmonate snails Catinella avara and Oxyloma retusa; second- and third-instar larvae fed on the above two species plus the freshwater pulmonate snails Galba humilis and Helisoma trivolvis and the terrestrial pulmonate snails Cochlicopa lubrica, Discus cronkhitei, and Zonitoides arboreus

IMMATS: Neff & Berg 1962 (E, L1–L3, P)

CHR: Boyes et al. 1969 (karyotype)

MOL_DAT: Y