Genus Opsotheresia, Tachinidae of America North of Mexico

Genus OPSOTHERESIA Townsend, 1919

OPSOTHERESIA Townsend, 1919c: 552. Type species: Opsotheresia obesa Townsend, 1919, by original designation.

bigelowi (Curran, 1926).– Wisconsin to Ontario, south to Kansas and Pennsylvania (S&A, 1965), Virginia (CNC), West Virginia (WVU).
– Gymnodexia bigelowi Curran, 1926a: 88. Type data: holotype male (CNC). Type locality: USA, Iowa, Delaware County, Robinson.
– Opsotheresia nigricornis Reinhard, 1939: 67. Type data: holotype male (CNC). Type locality: USA, Wisconsin, Madison.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 404)*

Diptera, Tabanidae

Unidentified Tabanidae

obesa Townsend, 1919.– New York and Massachusetts, south to Georgia (S&A, 1965).
– Opsotheresia obesa Townsend, 1919c: 552. Type data: holotype male (USNM). Type locality: USA, Maryland, Plummers Island.
– Myiocera protrudens West, 1924: 190. Type data: holotype male (CUI). Type locality: USA, New York, near Ithaca, Ringwood Hollow.
– Myiocera compacta West, 1925: 130. Type data: holotype female (CUI). Type locality: USA, New York, near Ithaca, Ringwood Hollow.

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 OPSOTHERESIA Townsend, 1919

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