■ Taxonomic and Host Catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico
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Genus ATHRYCIA Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

ATHRYCIA Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 111 (also subsequently spelled Athricia, unjustified iendation). Type species: Athrycia erythrocera Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (= Tachina trepida Meigen, 1824), by subsequent designation of Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863a: 830 [Palearctic].


cinerea (Coquillett, 1895).– British Columbia to Colorado to Illinois to Massachusetts, south to Mexico (Chihuahua) and Virginia (S&A, 1965), Yukon, Northwest Territories, Alberta to New Brunswick (CNC).
– Paraplagia cinerea Coquillett, 1895d: 101. Type data: syntypes, 1 male and 2 females (USNM). Type localities: USA, northern Illinois and District of Columbia.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 87)*
Unidentified Hymenoptera
Sawfly(-flies)
Lepidoptera, Noctuidae
Pseudaletia unipuncta (Haworth)

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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