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Eudexia grandis Santis 2021, comb. nov.

Description

Eudexia grandis (Townsend, 1935), comb. nov.

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Chaetocalirrhoe grandis Townsend, 1935: 218. References: Guimarães (1971: 28; catalog); O’Hara et al. (2020: 36; checklist of World Tachinidae).

Material examined. Holotype male (USNM; examined from photographs):“ Kenscoff / Haiti /24.VI.31/ Myers /2061”; “ Chaetocalirrhoe / grandis TT / Townsend / Det CHTT ♂ ”; “HT ♂ / Type ”; ‘USNMENT/01518135”. Holotype in good condition, but with left wing damaged, and scutum and scutellum damaged close to pin.

Diagnosis. Prementum short, about 0.5x length of head. Postpedicel light brown, but proximal 1/5 dark yellow. Upper calypter hyaline. Abdomen yellow with a continuous dorsal brownish-black median vitta, uninterrupted from syntergite 1+2 to tergite 5, and with silver pruinosity on tergites 3 to 5.

Distribution. Haiti (Kenscoff).

Notes

Published as part of Santis, Marcelo Domingos De, 2021, The Neotropical genus Eudexia Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1889 (Tachinidae: Dexiinae: Dexiini): lectotype fixation for the type species, synonymy and a new species from Brazil, pp. 538-550 in Zootaxa 5004 (4) on page 543, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5004.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5140780

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
USNM
Scientific name authorship
Santis
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Tachinidae
Genus
Eudexia
Species
grandis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Eudexia grandis (Townsend, 1935) sec. Santis, 2021

References

  • Townsend, C. H. T. (1935) New South American Oestroidea (Dipt.). Revista de Entomologia, 5, 216 - 233.
  • Guimaraes, J. H. (1971) Family Tachinidae (Larvaevoridae). In: Papavero, N. (Ed.), A Catalogue of the Diptera of the Americas South of the United States. Vol. 104. Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, pp. 1 - 333.