VORIA Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 195. Type species: Voria latifrons Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (= Tachina ruralis Fallén, 1810), by monotypy [Palearctic].
PLAGIA Meigen, 1838: 201. Type species: Tachina verticalis Meigen, 1824 (= Tachina ruralis Fallén, 1810), by subsequent designation of Rondani, 1856: 69 [Palearctic].
aurifrons (Townsend, 1892).– Michigan to Massachusetts, south to Illinois and Virginia (S&A, 1965), British Columbia to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, also Iowa (CNC).
– Plagia aurifrons Townsend, 1892d: 67. Type data: holotype male (SEMK). Type locality: USA, Pennsylvania.
| Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 503)* | |||
| Lepidoptera, Noctuidae | |||
| Autographa californica (Speyer) probably, Heliothis zea (Boddie) | |||
ruralis (Fallén, 1810).– Europe, British Columbia, United States southeast to Mississippi and District of Columbia, Mexico (S&A, 1965), Transpalearctic (Richter & Wood, 1995), Yukon, Northwest Territories, Alberta to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia (CNC).
– Tachina ruralis Fallén, 1810: 265. Type data: lectotype male (NHRS), by designation of Crosskey, 1973: 164 (mention of "Ht" by Townsend, 1939a: 402, is not a lectotype fixation because the specimen in question is not distinguishable from the other specimens in the type series). Type locality: Sweden, Skåne, Esperöd.
| Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 503)* | |||
| Lepidoptera, Noctuidae | |||
| Anticarsia gemmatalis Hübner, Autographa californica (Speyer), Autographa sp., Autoplusia egena (Guenée), Peridroma saucia (Hübner), Plusia aereoides Grote, Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith), Trichoplusia ni (Hübner) | |||
| Lepidoptera, Noctuidae and/or Pyralidae | |||
| Noctuid and/or pyralid spp. (including Scotogramma trifolii (Rottenburg) and/or Loxostege sticticalis (Linnaeus)) | |||
| Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 505) for probably ruralis (Fallén)* | |||
| Lepidoptera, Noctuidae | |||
| Autographa gamma (Linnaeus), Trichoplusia ni (Hübner) | |||
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.
