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Distribution: Brazil; Paraguay; Venezuela; Argentina; Chile; Peru. 

 Host Plants: Gossypium sp. ; Richardia brasiliensis; Sida cordifolia; Sida 

 glomerata; Sida rhombifolia; Sida ulmifolia; tomato. 

 Note: Parasites [Soares]. 



*Corythaica smithi Drake 



Corythaica smithi Drake 1921b, p. 50, pi. 1, figs, a, a' [Colombia]. — Hurd 

 1945, pp. 81, 95, pi. 1, figs. 7, 7a. 

 Type: Sex unknown; Bonda, Colombia; Carnegie Mus. 

 Distribution: Colombia. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



*Corythaica umbrosa (Monte) 



Leptotingis umbrosa Monte 1938b, p. 128 [Brazil; Richardia brasiliensis]; 



1939b, p. 76 [Diodia conferta]; 1940c, p. 193. 

 Corythaica umbrosa: Monte 1942d, p. 105, fig. 1; 1943c, p. 115. — Drake 

 and Hambleton 1942a, p. 330.— Hurd 1945, pp. 81, 95, fig. 4 

 [Paraguay] . 

 Type: Holotype d* ; Belo Horizon te, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Monte Coll. 

 (Mus. Nacional). 

 Distribution: Brazil; Paraguay. 

 Host Plants: Diodia conferta; Richardia brasiliensis. 

 *Corythaica venusta (Champion) 



Dolichocysta venusta Champion 1898b, p. 57, pi. 2, figs. 1,1a [Mexico]. — 

 Heidemann 1899a, p. 339 [Mont.; Tex.].— Drake 1917a, p. 214 

 [Colo.].— Gibson 1919c, p. 102 [Calif.].— Monte 1942d, p. 112. — 

 Perkins and Swezey 1924, p. 52 [Lantana]. 

 Dolichocysta magna Gibson 1919c, p. 102 [S. Dak.; Nebr.]. 

 Dolichocysta densata Gibson 1919c, p. 102.— Monte 1942d, p. 112, fig. 3. 

 Dolichocysta obscura Van Duzee 1923, p. 140. 



Corythaica venusta: Hurd 1945, pp. 81, 90, pi. 1, figs. 8, 8a [Ariz.; 

 N. Mex.; Kans.; Eriogonum; Salsola pestifer]. 

 Type: Sex unknown; Guadelupe, Lower California, Mexico; Vienna 

 Mus. 



Distribution: Mexico; U.S. (Ariz.; N. Mex.; Tex.; Calif.; Colo.; 

 S. Dak.; Kans.; Nebr.; Mont.); Canada (B.C.). 

 Host Plants: Eriogonum sp.; Lantana sp.; Salsola pestifer. 



Genus CORYTHAUMA Drake and Poor 



Corythauma Drake and Poor 1939c, p. 206. — Drake and Runoff 1960a, 

 p. 48. 

 Type Species: Leptopharsa ayyari Drake. 



