■ Taxonomic and Host Catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico
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Genus Eutrixa Coquillett, 1897

EUTRIXA Coquillett, 1897: 39, 72. Type species: Clytiomyia exile Coquillett, 1895, by fixation of O'Hara & Wood (2004: 45) under Article 70.3.2 of ICZN (1999), misidentified as Tachina masurius Walker, 1849, in the original designation by Coquillett (1897).


exilis (Coquillett, 1895).– Minnesota to New Hampshire, south to Texas and Georgia, also Washington, California, Arizona (S&A, 1965), British Columbia to New Brunswick and Maine, also New Mexico (CNC).
– Clytiomyia exile Coquillett, 1895c: 53. Type data: lectotype male [possibly female, abdomen missing] (USNM), by fixation of Townsend, 1938: 258 (mention of "Ht male" is regarded as a lectotype fixation). Type locality: USA, New Hampshire, Franconia.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 250)*
Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae
Euetheola rugiceps (LeConte), Ligyrus gibbosus (De Geer), Phyllophaga anxia (LeConte), Phyllophaga drakii (Kirby), Phyllophaga fervida (Fabricius), Phyllophaga nitida (LeConte), Phyllophaga rubiginosa (LeConte), Phyllophaga spp., June beetle(-s), May beetle(-s)

laxifrons Reinhard, 1962.– California, Arizona (S&A, 1965), Mexico (CNC).
– Eutrixa laxifrons Reinhard, 1962b: 216. Type data: holotype female (CNC). Type locality: USA, Arizona, Flagstaff.

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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