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

GYMNOCHETA Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 371 (also subsequently spelled Gymnochaeta, unjustified emendation). Type species: Tachina viridis Fallén, 1810 (cited as viridis Meigen, in error), by monotypy [Palearctic].
CHLOROMETAPHYTO Townsend, 1919a: 180. Type species: Gymnochaeta vivida Williston, 1886, by original designation.


frontalis Brooks, 1945.– British Columbia, Alberta (S&A, 1965), ?New Mexico (CNC).
– Gymnocheta frontalis Brooks, 1945a: 88. Type data: holotype male (CNC). Type locality: Canada, British Columbia, Kamloops, Mount Lolo.


ruficornis Williston, 1886.– Iowa and Kansas to Massachusetts and New Jersey, also Arizona (S&A, 1965), Ontario, Québec, North Carolina (CNC), Virginia (WVU).
– Gymnochaeta ruficornis Williston, 1886: 302. Type data: holotype female (SEMK). Type locality: USA, Pennsylvania.

Hosts from Arnaud (1978: 275)*
Lepidoptera, Noctuidae
Papaipema arctivorens Hampson, Papaipema cataphracta (Grote), Papaipema nebris (Guenée)

rufipalpis Brooks, 1945.– British Columbia (S&A, 1965).
– Gymnocheta rufipalpis Brooks, 1945a: 87. Type data: holotype male (CNC). Type locality: Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver.


vivida Williston, 1886.– British Columbia to California and Colorado, also Maine, Pennsylvania, North Carolina (S&A, 1965), Alaska, Ontario to New Brunswick (CNC), South Carolina (FSCA).
– Gymnochaeta vivida Williston, 1886: 302. Type data: holotype female (SEMK). Type locality: USA, Pennsylvania.

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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