ruralis (Fallén), 1810: 265 (Tachina).

Type locality: Sweden, Skane, Esperöd. LT M (NHRS).

Distr.: widespread world distribution through the Palaearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, Oriental and Australasian (Guimarães, 1971a: 93; Crosskey, 1980: 838; O’Hara & Wood, 2004: 72; O’Hara et al., 2009: 44). Refs.: Thompson, 1961: 28 (redesc., key, larval desc.); Guimarães, 1971a: 93 (cat.).

americana (Wulp), 1890; 102 ( Plagia).

mexicana (Giglio-Tos), 1893b: 5 ( Plagia).

brasiliana Townsend, 1929: 380 .

brasiliensis Townsend, error.

ayerzai Blanchard, 1943: 157 .