Table 2. List of species of Lixophaga Townsend and their respective hosts. Host species that are borers of plants or fungi are highlighted in bold. Details about records, localities and respective references can be found in Guimarães (1977), Arnaud (1978), Carrejo et al. (2013), Tschorsnig (2017) and Gudin et al. (2022)
Species of Lixophaga Hosts
Abbreviations: COL = Coleoptera, DIP = Diptera, LEP = Lepidoptera, HYM = Hymenoptera.
Lixophaga cinctella (Mesnil) Mesalcidodes trifidus Pascoe (COL: Curculionidae)
Lixophaga diatraeae (Townsend) Calpodes ethlius (Stoll) (LEP: Hesperiidae)
Diatraea spp. (LEP: Crambidae)
Spodoptera frugiperda (Smith) (LEP: Noctuidae)
Utetheisa ornatrix (L.) (LEP: Erebidae)
Lixophaga grisea (Curran) Diatraea saccharalis (Fabr.) (LEP: Crambidae)
Lixophaga jennei Aldrich Cydia pomonella (L.) (LEP: Tortricidae)
Lixophaga latigena Shima Curculio spp. (COL: Curculionidae)
Lixophaga limonina Richter Metalimnobia quadrimaculata L. (DIP: Limoniidae)
Lixophaga mediocris Aldrich Cnidocampa flavescens (Walker) (LEP: Limacodidae)
Cydia caryana (Fitch) (LEP: Tortricidae)
Frumenta nundinella (Zeller) (LEP: Gelechiidae)
Grapholita molesta (Busck) (LEP: Tortricidae)
Rhyacionia spp. (LEP: Tortricidae)
Suleima helianthan a (Riley) (LEP: Tortricidae)
Lixophaga orbitalis Aldrich Cydia pomonella (L.) (LEP: Tortricidae)
Lixophaga parva Townsend Grapholita molesta (Busck) (LEP: Tortricidae)
Lixus scrobicollis Boheman (COL: Curculionidae)
Lixophaga plumbea Aldrich Cochylina oenotherana (Riley) (LEP: Tortricidae)
Grapholita molesta (Busck) (LEP: Tortricidae)
Rhyacionia frustrana (Comstock) (LEP: Tortricidae)
Saucrobotys futilalis (Lederer) (LEP: Crambidae)
Xenotemna pallorana (Robinson) (LEP: Tortricidae)
Lixophaga punctata (Townsend) Polybia occidentalis (Olivier) (HYM: Vespidae)
Polybia scutellaris (White) (HYM: Vespidae)
Lixophaga puscolulo Carrejo and Woodley Neoleucinodes elegantalis (Guenée) (LEP: Crambidae)
Lixophaga stratiophaga Gudin Ptecticus testaceus (Fabr.) (DIP: Stratiomyidae)
Lixophaga sphenophori (Villeneuve) Diatraea crambidoides (Grote) (LEP: Crambidae)
Rhabdoscelus obscurus (Boisduval) (COL: Curculionidae)
Lixophaga stenomae Curran Stenoma spp. (LEP: Elachistidae)
Lixophaga tenuis (Blanchard) Hypercompe indecisa (Walker) (LEP: Erebidae)
Lixophaga variabilis (Coquillett) Amphicerus bicaudatus (Say) (COL: Bostrichidae)
Ancylis comptana (Frölich) (LEP: Tortricidae)
Anomis erosa Hübner (LEP: Noctuidae)
Cydia spp. (LEP: Tortricidae)
Desmia funeralis (Hübner) (LEP: Crambidae)
Epiblema spp. (LEP: Tortricidae)
Eumarozia malachitana (Zeller) (LEP: Tortricidae)
Grapholita molesta (Busck) (LEP: Tortricidae)
Homoeosoma electellum (Hulst) (LEP: Pyralidae)
Lixus scrobicollis Boheman (COL: Curculionidae)
Loxostege similalis (Guenée) (LEP: Crambidae)
Oberea bimaculata (Olivier) (COL: Cerambicidae)
Ostrinia spp. (LEP: Crambidae)
Papaipema spp. (LEP: Noctuidae)
Plagiomimicus spumosum (Grote) (LEP: Noctuidae)
Rhyacionia rigidana (Femald) (LEP: Tortricidae)
Suleima helianthana (Riley) (LEP: Tortricidae)
Sphenophorus pontederiae Chittenden (COL: Curculionidae)
Trichoplusia ni (Hübner) (LEP: Noctuidae)