Genus Eriothrix, Tachinidae of America North of Mexico

Genus ERIOTHRIX Meigen, 1803

ERIOTHRIX Meigen, 1803: 279. Type species: Musca lateralis Fabricius, 1775 (= Musca rufomaculata De Geer, 1776; lateralis Fabricius is a junior homonym of Musca lateralis Linnaeus, 1758), by monotypy [Palearctic].
PYRAUSTOMYIA Townsend, 1916a: 627. Type species: Panzeria penitalis Coquillett, 1897, by original designation.

penitalis (Coquillett, 1897).– Wisconsin to Massachusetts, south to Kansas and Georgia (S&A, 1965), Alberta, Ontario (CNC).
– Panzeria penitalis Coquillett, 1897: 89. Type data: holotype male (USNM). Type locality: USA, Missouri (St. Louis according to Townsend, 1939a: 299, though not mentioned by Coquillett in original description).

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 454), as Pyraustomyia penitalis (Coquillett)*

Lepidoptera, Pyralidae

Ostrinia nubilalis (Hübner), Ostrinia obliteralis (Walker), Ostrinia penitalis (Grote), Pyrausta spp.

Reference:

Arnaud, P.H., Jr. 1978. A host-parasite catalog of North American Tachinidae (Diptera). United States Department of Agriculture. Miscellaneous Publication 1319: 1–860.

*Host names (family and species) have not been changed from those given in Arnaud (1978). Each host is listed under the appropriate current tachinid name, with the tachinid name used in Arnaud (1978) cited if different from the current one. For more information about Arnaud (1978), and to see a complete list of tachinid names used in that work and their modern equivalents, click here.

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Taxonomic and Host Catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico

Genus ERIOTHRIX Meigen, 1803

Taxonomic and Host Catalogue of the Tachinidae
of America North of Mexico