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The type specimens of Sarcophagidae (Diptera) housed at the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales"Bernardino Rivadavia" specimens are given.

Los ejemplares tipo de Sarcophagidae (Diptera) depositados en el Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia"

Mulieri, Pablo R., Luciano D. Patitucci and Juan C. Mariluis

ANLIS "Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán", Depto. Vectores. Av. Vélez Sarsfield 563, (1281) Buenos Aires, Argentina; National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET); vectores@anlis.gov.ar

ABSTRACT. The type specimens of Sarcophagidae housed in the collection of Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" (MACN) are listed. A total of 82 type specimens were examined. The types belong to 33 nominal species of Sarcophaginae described by E. E. Blanchard (25 species), J. Brèthes (3), H. Lopes (4), and T. Pape (1). For each taxon, information on the labels, original publications and conditions of the specimens are given.

KEY WORDS. Catalogue; Types; Sarcophagidae; Diptera; Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia".

RESUMEN. Se presenta una lista de los ejemplares tipo de Sarcophagidae, depositados en la colección del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" (MACN). Se examinaron un total de 82 ejemplares tipo. Estos especímenes pertenecen a 33 especies de Sarcophaginae descriptas por E. E. Blanchard (25 especies), J. Brèthes (3), H. Lopes (4) y T. Pape (1). Se brinda información sobre las etiquetas, publicaciones originales y condición de los especímenes de cada taxón.

PALABRAS CLAVE. Catálogo; Tipos; Sarcophagidae; Diptera; Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia".

Recibido: 11-VI-2009;
Aceptado: 24-II-2010

INTRODUCTION

The family Sarcophagidae has a worldwide distribution and is one of the most biologically diverse families of calyptrate flies, containing sarcosaprophagous and parasitic species (Lopes, 1969; Pape, 1996). According to Pape (1996) more than 2500 species have been described, and approximately more than 600 of them are Neotropical.
The type collection of Sarcophagidae in the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" (MACN) is the greatest repository of type-material of this family in Argentina, and represents a significant resource for researchers interested in Neotropical Sarcophagidae.
The information concerning type materials deposited in institutions is useful in taxonomic researches and as a preparation for databasing the collections. These listings have been recommended by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (Recommendation 72F.4, ICZN 1999).
With the aim of updating the information on types of Sarcophagidae, this study presents a list of the type specimens deposited in the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales"Bernardino Rivadavia".

MATERIAL AND METHODS

The entomological collection of the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" houses 82 type specimens of Sarcophagidae belonging to 33 nominal species of Sarcophaginae described by E. E. Blanchard, J. Brèthes, H. Lopes, and T. Pape. The species were alphabetically ordered according to their original combination. For each taxon, information on the labels, original publications, and conditions of the specimens are given. The information on the specimens has been taken from labels and compared with original descriptions.
Bibliographic references of original descriptions include year, author/s, journal, volumen, and page numbers.
Type categories and number of specimens are indicated followed by collection data (country, province or state, locality, date and collector). The code number of the Colección Nacional de Entomología (MACN-En) is given in brackets.
Labels are cited verbatim, lines separated by a slash, different labels by double slash and comments are given in brackets.
Remarks are included to describe the conditions of the specimens, the valid names of each taxon, and bibliography referred to synonymy or lectotype designations.
The valid names have been presented according to the classification established by Pape (1996), and the few exceptions are remarked.

RESULTS

argentina, Sarcophaga Brèthes, 1916. An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires 28: 142-144.

LECTOTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6282]. ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires. P. Caride Massini leg.
Labels: B. Aires / II,1916 / Dr. Caride [white label, handwritten] // 11575 [white label, red square, handwritten] // Bs. Aires [green label, black square, printed] Sarcophaga / argentina Br. [white label, handwritten].
PARALECTOTYPES 3 ♂, 4 ♀, 1 sex not determined [MACN-En 6274-6281]. ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires. P. Caride Massini leg.
Labels: B. Aires / II, 1916 / Dr. Caride [white label, handwritten] // Sarcophaga / argentina Br. [white label, handwritten].
PARALECTOTYPE ♀ [MACN-En 6283]. ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires. P. Caride Massini leg.
Labels: Sarcophaga / argentina Brethes / Bs Aires II-1916 / Dr. Caride / Type o Cotype !! [white label, handwritten].
Remarks: One paralectotype [MACN-En 6274] is in poor conditions with broken abdomen, thorax and head. The original publication did not indicate the exact number of the type series. Lectotype and paralectotypes of Sarcophaga argentina Brèthes were designated by Mulieri et al. (2010). Synonymized with Sarcophaga (Liopygia) argyrostoma (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) by Lopes (1961).

arteagai, Opsophyto Blanchard, 1939. Physis 17: 840-841.

LECTOTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6284]. ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires, La Colina. Schiuma leg.
Labels: Bs. As / La Colina / Schiuma / s/tucura [white label, handwritten] // Lectotype ♂ / Opsophyto arteagai Blnchd / T. Pape det. 1987 [red label, handwritten] // Opsophyto / arteagai / Blnchd [handwritten] / det. E. E. Blanchard [white label, black square, printed].
Remarks: The lectotype is glued to a square piece of cardboard, greased and in poor general condition. A puparium glued to a square cardboard is pinned below the specimen. The terminalia were dissected and stored in glycerine in a microvial pinned below the puparium. The lectotype was designated by Pape (1994). Considered a junior synonym of Blaesoxipha (s.str.) opifera (Coquillett, 1892) by Pape (1994).

australis, Protodexia Blanchard, 1942. Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argent. 11: 344-346.

HOLOTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6285]. ARGENTINA: Río Negro, Cipolleti.
Labels: Cipolletti. R. Negro / 10.III.941 [handwritten] / Inst. Invest. Langosta [white label, black square, printed] // ex Dichroplus / elongatus [white label, handwritten] // Holotypus [printed] ♂ [handwritten] / Protodexia / australis Blnchd / T. Pape det. 1987 [red label, handwritten] //Protodexia / australis / Blnchd [handwritten] / det. E. E. Blanchard [white label, black square, printed].
Remarks: The holotype is glued to a square piece of cardboard, in bad conditions, with the head missing and the terminalia extracted. Another specimen is glued to a cardboard below the holotype. There is a third cardboard with dissected parts of the holotype. Terminalia dissected on two slides pinned with the specimens below the third cardboard. Synonymized with Blaesoxipha (Tephromyia) quaesita (Hall, 1937) by Pape (1994).

blandita, Sarcophaga Brèthes, 1920. An. Soc. Rural Argent. 2: 282.

LECTOTYPE ♀ [MACN-En 6286]. BRAZIL: Pelotas. E. Roma leg.
Labels: 6 [handwritten] // E. Roma / vi-1919 / Pelotas [Brazil] [white label, Brèthes handwritten] // type! [white label, Brèthes handwritten] // Sarcophaga blandita Brèthes [white label, Brèthes handwritten] // Lectotype [printed] ♀ / Sarcophaga / blandita Brèthes / T. Pape / det. 1987 [red label, handwritten] // [square red label].
PARALECTOTYPES 3 ♀ [MACN-En 6287-6289]. BRAZIL: Pelotas. E. Roma leg.
Labels: 6 [handwritten] // E. Roma / vi-1919 / Pelotas [Brazil] [white label, Brèthes handwritten] // type! [white label, Brèthes handwritten] // Sarcophaga blandita Brèthes [white label, Brèthes's handwritten] // Paralectotype [printed] ♀ / Sarcophaga /blandita Brèthes / T. Pape / det. 1987 [red label, handwritten].
Remarks: The lectotype is in relative good conditions. The lectotype of Sarcophaga blandita Brèthes was designated by Pape (1994). Synonymized with Blaesoxipha (Tephromyia) hospes (Aldrich, 1916) by Pape (1994).

borgmeieri, Helicobia Lopes, 1939a. Rev. Entomol 10: 510-512.

PARATYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6290]. BRAZIL: Goiás, Campinas. Borgmeier & Lopes leg.
Labels: Cultura [printed] / Nº [printed] 212 [handwritten] // Campinas-Goyas / Borgmeier et / S. Lopes XII-935 [white label, printed] // Paratypus [red label, printed] Col. E. E. / Blanchard [white label, black square, printed] // Helicobia / borgmeieri, n.sp / Paratypus [handwritten] / Det. H. S. Lopes [white label, printed].
Remarks: The paratype is in good condition.

bosqi, Paraphrissopoda Blanchard, 1939. Physis 17: 828-831.

HOLOTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6291]. ARGENTINA: Misiones. J.M. Bosq leg.
Labels: Misiones / 1936 J. M. B [white label, Bosq's handwritten] // I [white label, handwritten] // Holotypus [red label, printed] // Paraphrissopoda / bosqi, / Blnchd. [handwritten] / det. E. E. Blanchard [printed] / Cotipos [white label, black square, printed].
Remarks: The holotype is darkened, and has the terminalia extracted. The valid name is Engelimyia bosqi (Blanchard, 1939) (Pape & Mello-Patiu, 2006).

brethesi, Neobellieria Blanchard, 1939. Physis 17: 823-825.

LECTOTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6294]. ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires. J. Brèthes leg. Labels: Cotipo [red label, handwritten] // J. Brèthes / Buenos Aires / 14.III.1907 [white label, black square, handwritten] // Parásito de Polistes / versicolor Linné [white label, handwritten] // Neobellieria / brethesi / Blchd. [handwritten] / det. E. E. Blanchard [printed] / Cotipos [white label, black square, handwritten] // Col. E. E. / Blanchard [white label, black square, printed].
PARALECTOTYPES 2 ♂, 1 ♀ [MACN-En 6292, 6293, 6295]. Buenos Aires. J. Brèthes leg.
Labels: Cotipo [red label, handwritten] // J. Brèthes / Buenos Aires / 14.III.1907 [white label, black square, handwritten] // Parásito de Polistes / versicolor Linné [white label, handwritten] // Neobellieria / brethesi / Blchd. / det. E. E. Blanchard / Cotipos [white label, black square, handwritten].
Remarks: The male lectotype and paralectotypes have their terminalia dissected. The female has the abdomen dissected and glued on a piece of cardboard pinned below the specimen. Lectotype and paralectotypes of Neobellieria brethesi Blanchard were designated by Mulieri et al. (2010). Considered a junior synonym of Sarcophaga (Neobellieria) polistensis Hall, 1933 by Pape (1996).

chaetosa, Dexosarcophaga Blanchard, 1939. Physis 17: 849-851.

HOLOTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6296]. ARGENTINA: Corrientes, Parada Pucheta.
Labels: Parada Pucheta / Corr. / 13.6.`27 [white label, handwritten] // IB [handwritten] // Dexosarcophaga chaetosa / n. sp. [white label, handwritten] // Head - 8 body- with silvery gray pollen slighty / tinged with yellow / Pre apt present / DS / 2 strong & 1 weak pair LS / Hypopyg black, small / I. B. 12 [white label, handwritten].
Remarks: The male holotype has the terminalia dissected, the head and one leg glued on the first label.

crouzelae, Protodexia Blanchard, 1942. Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argent. 11: 347-349.

HOLOTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6297]. ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires, José C. Paz.
Labels: ex / Elaeochlora / viridicata [white label, handwritten] // José C. Paz / II-1942 [white label, handwritten] // Holotipo [red label, handwritten] // ex / Elaeochlora / viridicata [on slides of dissected terminalia] // col. E. E. / Blanchard [white label black square, printed] // Protodexia / crouzeli / Blnchd. [handwritten] / det. E. E. Blanchard [white label black square, printed] // Holotype ♂ / Protodexia crouzeli Blanch. / T. Pape det. 1988 [red label, handwritten].
Remarks: The holotype is mounted on a cardboard. The wings, abdomen and other dissected parts are glued on two supplementary cardboards below. Slides with the terminalia pinned with the specimen between the second and third cardboard. Pape (1994) considered Protodexia crouzelae as junior synonym of Blaesoxipha (Tephromyia) quaesita (Hall, 1937).

dangeloi, Pattonella Blanchard, 1938. An. Acad. Cienc. Argent. 126: 375-377.

SYNTYPES 1 ♂, 2 ♀ [MACN-En 6298, 6302, 6303]. ARGENTINA: Corrientes. D´Angelo leg.
Labels: Corrientes / D´Angelo V 38 [white label, handwritten] // Pattonella / dangeloi / n sp. / det. E. E. Blanchard [white label black square, handwritten].
SYNTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6299]. ARGENTINA: Corrientes. D´Angelo leg.
Labels: Corrientes / D´Angelo [white label, handwritten] // Pattonella / dangeloi / n sp. / det. E. E. Blanchard [white label black square, printed].
SYNTYPE 2 ♀ [MACN-En 6300, 6301]. ARGENTINA: Corrientes. D´Angelo leg.
Labels: Corrientes / D´Angelo [white label, handwritten] // Pattonella / dangeloi / n sp. / det. E. E. Blanchard [white label black square, handwritten].
Remarks: The specimen used by Blanchard to obtain the original illustrations was not found. Considered a junior synonym of Peckia (Pattonella) resona (Lopes, 1935) by Lopes (1958).

deaurata, Protodexia Blanchard, 1942. Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argent. 11: 349-351.

HOLOTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6304]. ARGENTINA: Córdoba.
Labels: Cordoba / 21-I-42 [handwritten] / Inst. Invest. Langosta [white label black square, printed] // Protodexia / deaurata Bl. / Holotype ♂ / T. Pape prep. 87 [on slides of dissected terminalia, handwritten] // S.Nº 22 / sobre / Zoniopoda [white label, handwritten] / Protodexia / deaurata / Blanchd [handwritten] / det. E. E. Blanchard [printed] / Holotipo [white label red square, handwritten] / Holotype ♂ / Protodexia / deaurata Blanchard / T. Pape det. 1988 [red label, handwritten].
Remarks: The holotype is glued on a rectangular cardboard, another specimen above on a separate cardboard. Terminalia of the holotype dissected on two slides pinned under the first label. Synonymized with Blaesoxipha (Tephromyia) hunteri (Hough, 1898) by Pape (1994).

delpontei, Oxysarcodexia Blanchard, 1939. Physis 17: 809-812.

LECTOTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6305]. ARGENTINA:
Labels: Bs As. / prep. EB 2 [white label, handwritten].
PARALECTOYPES 11 ♀ [MACN-En 6306- 6316]. ARGENTINA: [Buenos Aires] Delta.
Labels: Delta / VI-38 [white label, handwritten] // Oxysarcodexia / delpontei / Blnchd. / det E. E. Blanchard [white label, black square, handwritten].
Remarks: The original description mentioned the type series with specimens from Córdoba, Buenos Aires and Delta del Paraná as "cotipos". All specimens examined are in perfect conditions. The male lectotype with terminalia dissected on two slides pinned below the specimen. Female paralectotypes pinned in five pins (two pins with three specimens, two with paired specimens and one single specimen). Lectotype and paralectotypes of Oxysarcodexia delpontei Blanchard were designated by Mulieri et al. (2010). Synonymized with Oxysarcodexia paulistanensis (Mattos, 1919) by Lopes (1969).

denieri, Hamatomyia Blanchard, 1939. Physis 17: 816-818.

LECTOTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6317]. ARGENTINA: Santa Fe.
Labels: Cotipo [red label, handwritten] // Sta Fé / 1935 / Denier leg. [white label, handwritten] // Lectotype [printed] ♂ [handwritten] / Hamatomyia denieri Blnchd. / T. Pape det. 1987 [red label, handwritten] // Hamatomyia / denieri Blnchd. [handwritten] / det. E. E. Blanchard [white label black square, printed].
Remarks: Lectotype in good condition with terminalia glued on a cardboard. Lectotype designation in Pape (1994). The labels of a second specimen housed at MACN and labeled as paralectotype do not match the data given by Pape (1994) for existing paralectotypes or with Blanchard (1939), referring to the specimens originally designated as "cotipos". The valid name is Blaesoxipha (Acanthodotheca) denieri (Blanchard, 1939) (Pape, 1994).

diloboderi, Blaesoxipha (Acanthodoteca) Pape, 1994. Ent. Scand. Suppl. 45: 25-26.

HOLOTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6318]. ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires, Norberto de la Riestra.
Labels: N. de la Riestra / 13.x.1961 / leg. I. Crouzel [white label, handwritten] // S/Diloboderus / abderus [white label, handwritten] // Holotype ♂ / Blaesoxipha / diloboderi / T. Pape det. 1988 [red label, handwritten].
Remarks: The holotype is a teneral specimen and the species description was based only on features of genitalia. The specimen and its genitalia are glued on a cardboard.

diponthi, Protodexia Blanchard, 1942. Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argent. 11: 351-353.

HOLOTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6319]. ARGENTINA: Córdoba, Campo Monasterio.
Labels: ex / Diponthus sp. [white label, handwritten] // Campo / Monasterio / Córdoba / 12-v-42 [white label, handwritten] // Holotipo [red label, handwritten] // Protodexia / diponthi. / Blnchd. [handwritten] / det. E. E. Blanchard [printed] / Holotipo [white label, handwritten] // Holotype ♂ / Protodexia / diponthi Blanchard / T. Pape det. 1988 [red label, handwritten].
Remarks: The holotype is glued to a square piece of cardboard, and the terminalia dissected on two slides pinned with the specimens below the second label. Synonymized with Blaesoxipha (Tephromyia) quaesita (Hall, 1937) by Pape (1994).

dyscineti, Xenopiella Blanchard, 1966. Rev. Invest. Agrop. Serie 5, Patol. Veget. 3: 182-183.

HOLOTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6320]. ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires, Tandil. Bazán leg.
Labels: S/Dyscinetus / gagates / adulto [white label, handwritten] // Tandil / 6.XI.1938 / Bazán leg. [white label, handwritten] // Xenopiella / dyscineti / gen. et. Sp. Nov. [handwritten] / det. E. E. Blanchard [white label black square, printed] // Xenopiella / dyscineti / E. E. Blanchard / Holotypus [red label, handwritten].
Remarks: The holotype is glued to cardboard, its dissected genitalia and puparia in other cardboards below. Pape (1990) considered Xenopiella dyscineti as junior synonym of Microcerella acrydiorum (Weyenbergh, 1875).

elegans, Sarcohelicobia Blanchard, 1939. Physis 17: 795-797.

HOLOTYPE ♀ [MACN-En 6321]. ARGENTINA: Misiones. J. M. Bosq leg.
Labels: Misiones / 1936 J.M.B. (sin punto?) [white label, handwritten] // Holotypus [red label, handwritten] // Sarcohelicobia / elegans / n. sp. [handwritten] / det. E. E. Blanchard [printed] / tipo [white label black square, handwritten].
Remarks: Holotype in good condition. Synonymized with Nephochaetopteryx cyaneiventris Lopes, 1936 by Mulieri et al. (2010).

liebermanni, Protodexia Blanchard 1955. Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argent. 18: 33-34.

HOLOTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6322]. CHILE: Vallanares.
Labels: Vallanares / Rep. Chile / 22.I.43 [white label, handwritten] // Protodexia / liebermanni / Blnchd. [handwritten] / det. E. E. Blanchard [white label black square, printed].
Remarks: The holotype is glued on a piece of cardboard under the first label. Another specimen glued in a cardboard above. The holotype specimen has the terminalia dissected. Synonymized with Blaesoxipha (Tephromyia) quaesita (Hall, 1937) by Pape (1994).

lubera, Sarcophaga Brèthes, 1920. An. Soc. Rural Argent. 2: 282-283.

SYNTYPES 3 ♂, 1 ♀ [MACN-En 6323-6326]. BRAZIL: Pelotas. E. Roma leg.
Labels: 7 [white label, handwritten] // E. Roma / VI.1919 / Pelotas [white label, handwritten] // type! [white label, handwritten] // Sarcophaga / lubera Brèthes [white label, Brèthes handwritten] // [red label].
Remarks: In one male syntype specimen [MACN-En 6324] the red label is absent. This nominal species was included in the catalog as an unrecognized species of the genus Helicobia Coquillet (Lopes, 1969; Pape, 1996).

mantidophaga, Helicobia Blanchard, 1942. Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argent. 11: 340-343.

HOLOTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6327]. ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires, José C. Paz.
Labels: Holotype [printed] ♂ [handwritten] / Helicobia / mantidophaga Bl. / T. Pape det. 1987 [red label, handwritten] // Nº 20 / sobre / Copopterix [handwritten on slides of dissected genitalia] // José C. Paz / 23.I.42 [handwritten] / Instit. Invest. Langosta [white label black square, printed] // Helicobiella / mantidophaga / Blnchd. [handwritten] det. E. E. Blanchard [white label black square, printed].
Remarks: The holotype is glued on a piece of cardboard, plus another female specimen under the first label. Dissected parts of the holotype on a third cardboard followed by the slides of dissected genitalia. Considered a junior synonym of Blaesoxipha (Tephromyia) hospes (Aldrich, 1916) by Pape (1994).

meinckeae, Andinoravinia Blanchard, 1939. Physis 17: 835-837.

SYNTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6328]. ARGENTINA: Córdoba, La Falda. M. Meincke leg.
Labels: La Falda / Córdoba / II.1933 [white label black square, handwritten] // prep. / l [white label, handwritten] // Cotipo [red label black square, handwritten] // Neoravinia / meinckei / Blanchard [handwritten] / det. E. E. Blanchard [white label black square, printed] // Andinoravinia / meinckei / Blanchard [red label black square, handwritten].
SYNTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6329]. ARGENTINA: Córdoba, La Falda. M. Meincke leg.
Labels: prep. / k [white label black square, handwritten] // La Falda / Córdoba / II.1933 [white label black square, handwritten] // Cotipo [red label black square, handwritten] // Andinoravinia / meinckei / Blanchard [red label black square, handwritten].
SYNTYPE ♀ [MACN-En 6330]. ARGENTINA: Tucumán, Río Cochona. R. Mundell leg.
Labels: Río Cochona / Tuc. 8.12.33 [white label, handwritten] // Allotipo [red label black square, handwritten] // Neoravinia / menckei / Blanchard [handwritten] / det. E. E. Blanchard [white label black square, handwritten] // Andinoravinia / menckei / Blanchard [red label black square, handwritten].
Remarks: The original description mentioned three males and one female from La Falda (Córdoba) and an undetermined number of specimens from Río Cochona (Tucumán). The male specimens found have their terminalia dissected. The valid name is Ravinia meinckeae (Blanchard, 1939) (Roback, 1954).

mundelli, Boettcheria Blanchard, 1939. Physis 17: 825-828.

HOLOTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6331]. ARGENTINA: Tucumán.
Labels: Tucumán, / 17-5-35 [white label, handwritten] // R. Mundell [white label, printed] // Boettcheria / mundelli / Blnchd [handwritten] / det. E. E. Blanchard [printed] / Holotipo [white label black square, handwritten] // Holotypus [red label, handwritten]
Remarks: The holotype has its terminalia extracted but not attached to the specimen.

neuquenensis, Tephromyiella Blanchard, 1942. Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argent. 11: 356-358.

LECTOTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6332]. ARGENTINA: Neuquén, Norquin. Ogloblin leg.
Labels: Norquin Neuquen-Nac /30.XII.38 - Muer. 1.I.39 [handwritten] / Instit. Invest. Langosta [white label, printed] // Lectotype [printed] ♂ [handwritten] / Tephromyiella / neuquenensis Bl. / T. Pape det. 1987 [red label, handwritten] // Tephromyiella / neuquenensis / Blnchd. il. [handwritten] / det. E. E. Blanchard [white label black square, printed].
PARALECTOTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6333]. ARGENTINA: Neuquén, Norquin. Ogloblin leg.
Labels: same data as lectotype.
Remarks: Lectotype pinned below the paralectotype. Terminalia of lectotype and paralectotype dissected on two slides, pinned with the specimens. Lectotype designation in Pape (1994). The valid name is Blaesoxipha (Tephromyia) neuquenensis (Blanchard 1942) (Pape, 1994).

nodositas, Merokellymyia Blanchard, 1939. Physis 17: 843-845.

SYNTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6334]. ARGENTINA: Misiones. Ogloblin leg.
Labels: Misiones / VIII.1934 [white label black square, handwritten] // Merokellymia [sic] / ogloblini, / Blnchd. [handwritten] / det. E. E. Blanchard [white label black square, printed].
Remarks: There is no indication in the original description of how many specimens were used for the description. The type series is mentioned as "cotipos" by Blanchard (1939). The specimen is the only one whose date, type locality and morphology match the original description. The specimen is darkened and has its terminalia extracted. The specimen is labeled as Merokellymia ogloblini. Synonymized with Udamopyga setigena (Enderlein 1928) by Lopes (1968).

ogloblini, Protodexia Blanchard, 1942. Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argent. 11: 353-356.

HOLOTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6335]. ARGENTINA: San Luis. Ogloblin leg.
Labels: San Luis / 18-VI-941 [handwritten] / Instit. Invest. Langosta [white label black square, printed] // Protodexia / ogloblini [handwritten] / det. E. E. Blanchard [printed] / Tipo [white label black square, handwritten] // Holotype ♂ / Protodexia / ogloblini Blanchard / T. Pape det. 1988 [red label, handwritten].
Remarks: The holotype is glued on a piece of cardboard with two slides of dissected genitalia under the first label. Synonymized with Blaesoxipha (Tephromyia) hunteri (Hough, 1898) by Pape (1994).

ogloblini, Sarcophaga Lopes, 1939b. Physis 17: 119-121.

PARATYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6336]. BRAZIL: Goias. Borgmeier & Lopes leg.
Labels: Campinas / Est. De Goyaz. / Borgmeier et Lopes [white label black square, printed] // Paratypus [red label, printed] // Sarcophaga / ogloblini, / n. sp. / S. Lopes det. 937 [white label black square, printed] // Udamopyga / ogloblini / Lopes [handwritten] / Det. H. S. Lopes [white label black square, printed].
Remarks: Paratype in good condition. Lopes (1943) considered Sarcophaga ogloblini as junior synonym of Udamopyga setigena (Enderlein, 1928).

phaneophaga, Cornomyorhina Blanchard, 1966. Rev. Invest. Agrop. 3 (11): 179-180.

LECTOTYPE ♀ [MACN-En 6337]. ARGENTINA: Córdoba, Villa Dolores. R. Del Pino leg.
Labels: Lectotype [printed] / Cornomyorhina / phaneophaga Blnch / ♀ / T. Pape det. 1987 [red label, handwritten] // Paralectotype [printed] / Cornomyorhina / phaneophaga Blnch / ♀ / T. Pape det. 1987 [red label, handwritten] // Nº 1[white label, handwritten] // Phaneus / imperator [white label, handwritten] // Col. Zoología Agrícola [printed] / Insectario J. C. Paz / Bs. As. Argentina / I-1949 [white label black square, handwritten] // Cornomyorhina / phaneophaga / Blnchd. [handwritten] / det. E. E. Blanchard [printed] / tipos [white label black square, handwritten].
PARALECTOTYPES 2 ♀ [MACN-En 6338, 6339]. ARGENTINA: Córdoba, Villa Dolores. R. Del Pino leg.
Labels: Same data as lectotype.
Remarks: The lectotype and both paralectotype in a single pin. Lectotype designation in Pape (1994). The valid name is Blaesoxipha (Acanthodotheca) phaneophaga (Blanchard, 1966) (Pape, 1994).

pilifera, Helicobia Lopes, 1939a. Rev. Entomol. 10: 508-510.

PARATYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6340]. BRAZIL: Río de Janeiro, Jardím Botanico. H. S. Lopes leg. Labels: Rio de Janeiro / Jard. Botanico / H. S. Lopes 7-35 [white label, printed] // Paratypus [red label, printed] // Helicobia ♂ / pilifera, n. sp. / Paratypus [handwritten] / Det. H. S. Lopes [white label, printed].
Remarks: Paratype with terminalia partly extended.

pilpleura, Helicobia Lopes, 1939a. Rev. Entomol. 10: 514.

PARATYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6341]. BRAZIL: Río de Janeiro, Grajahú. H. S. Lopes leg.
Labels: Grajahu / Rio de Janeiro / S. Lopes 5-IV-38 [white label, printed] // Paratypus [red label, printed] // Helicobia / pilipleura, n. sp. / Paratypus [handwritten] / Det. H. S. Lopes [white label, printed].
Remarks: Paratype with terminalia partly extended.

sanchezi, Helicobiella Blanchard, 1939. Physis 17: 838-839.

LECTOTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6342].
ARGENTINA: Catamarca. Sanchez Oviedo MULIERI, P. R. et al. The type specimens of Sarcophagidae 165
leg.
Labels: Cotipo [white label, handwritten] // Catamarca / 12/V/1934 / Sanchez Oviedo [white label, handwritten] // s/Stagmatoptera / hyaloptera / Perty [white label, handwritten] // Lectotype [printed] ♂ [handwritten] / Helicobiella / sanchezi Blnchd / T. Pape det. 1987 [red label, handwritten] // Helicobiella / sanchezi n. g. et n. sp. [handwritten] / det. E. E. Blanchard [white label black square, printed].
PARALECTOTYPE ♀ [MACN-En 6343]. ARGENTINA: Córdoba.
Labels: s/Mantis / sp [white label, handwritten] // Córdoba / XI.1938 /"..." [white label, handwritten] // Paralectotype [printed] ♀ [handwritten] / Helicobiella / sanchezi Blnchd / T. Pape det. 1987 [red label, handwritten] // Helicobiella / sanchezi / Blnchd [handwritten] / det. E. E. Blanchard [white label black square, printed].
Remarks: The lectoptype has the terminalia dissected and mounted on a triangular cardboard, under the first label. The paralectotype is mounted on a cardboard, the head glued in the same cardboard. Lectotype designation in Pape (1994). Considered a junior synonym of Blaesoxipha (Tephromyia) hospes (Aldrich, 1916) by Pape (1994).

subandina, Doringia Blanchard, 1938. An. Acad. Cienc. Argent. 126: 377-380.

SYNTYPES 1 ♂, 2 ♀ [MACN-En 6344, 6346, 6347]. ARGENTINA: Mendoza, Uspallata.
Labels: Uspallata / III.38 [white label, handwritten] // Doringia / subandina / Blanchard [white label black square, handwritten].
SYNTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6345]. ARGENTINA: Mendoza, Uspallata.
Labels: Uspallata / III.38 [white label, handwritten] // Doringia / subandina sp.nov. [handwritten] / det. E. E. Blanchard [white label black square, printed].
Remarks: One syntype male specimen [MACN-En 6344] mounted on a cardboard, terminalia dissected, the head glued on the same cardboard. Considered a junior synonym of Microcerella spinigena (Rondani, 1864) by Pape (1990).

trigonophymi, Sarcophagulopsis Blanchard, 1939. Physis 17: 798-799.

LECTOTYPE ♀ [MACN-En 6348]. ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires, La Colina. Schiuma leg.
Labels: Bs. As. / La Colina / Schiuma [white label, handwritten] // s/tucura [handwritten] / II/1937 [white label, handwritten on back side of label] // Lectotype / Sarcophagulopsis ♀ trigonophymi Blnchd. / T. Pape det. 1989 [red label, handwritten] // Sarcophagulopsis / trigonophymi / E. E. Blanchard 1939 / syntypus [red label, handwritten].
PARALECTOTYPE ♀ [MACN-En 6349]. ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires, Bahía Blanca.
Labels: B. Blanca / s/tucura / D. arrogans / 8/II/27 [white label, handwritten] // Paralectotype / Sarcophagulopsis ♀ trigonophymi Blnchd. / T. Pape det. 1989 [red label, handwritten].
PARALECTOTYPE ♀ [MACN-En 6350]. ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires, Bahía Blanca.
Labels: B. Blanca / s/tucura / D. arrogans / 8/II/27 [white label, handwritten] // Sarcophagulopsis / trigonophymi / Blnchd. [handwritten] / det. E. E. Blanchard [printed] / Cotipos / ♀ [white label black square, handwritten] // Paralectotype / Sarcophagulopsis ♀ trigonophymi Blnchd. / T. Pape det. 1989 [red label, handwritten]
Remarks: The lectotype is glued to a cardboard, with a puparium glued to another cardboard. Lectotype designation in Pape (1994). Synonymized with Blaesoxipha (s.str.) opifera (Coquillett, 1892) by Pape (1994).

wagneri, Sarcophodexia Blanchard, 1939. Physis 17: 812-815.

LECTOTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6351].
ARGENTINA: Santiago del Estero. Wagner leg.
Labels: S. del Estero / 1919 [white label, handwritten] // Lectotype [printed] ♂ [handwritten] / Sarcophodexia / wagneri Blnchd / T. Pape det. 1987 [red label, handwritten] // Sarcophodexia / wagneri / Blnchd. [handwritten] / det. E. E. Blanchard [white label, printed]. PARALECTOTYPES 2 ♂, 1 ♀ [MACN-En 6352, 6354, 6355]. ARGENTINA: Santiago del Estero. Wagner leg.
Labels: S. del Estero / 1919 [white label, handwritten] // Sarcophaga / wagneri / cotipo Blanchard [white label red square, handwritten] // col. E. E. / Blanchard [white label black square, printed] // Paralectotipe [printed] ♂ [handwritten] / Sarcophodexia / wagneri / T. Pape det. 1987 [red label, handwritten].
PARALECTOTYPE ♂ [MACN-En 6353]. ARGENTINA: Santiago del Estero. Wagner leg.
Labels: S. del Estero / 1919 [white label, handwritten] // prep / f [white label, handwritten] // Sarcophaga / wagneri / cotipo Blanchard [white label red square, handwritten] // col. E. E. / Blanchard [white label black square, printed] // Paralectotipe [printed] ♂ [handwritten] / Sarcophodexia / wagneri / T. Pape det. 1987 [red label, handwritten].
Remarks: The lectotype has the terminalia dissected and glued to a piece of cardboard below the specimen. Two male paralectotypes have the terminalia dissected, one of them [MACN-En 6352] has the terminalia mounted on a slide and pinned below the specimen. Lectotype designation in Pape (1994). The valid name is Blaesoxipha (Acanthodotheca) wagneri (Blanchard 1939) (Pape 1994).

AKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We thank Dr. Adriana Oliva for helping in laboratory work and for her comments on the manuscript. We are grateful to Dr. Axel O. Bachmann, Dr. Arturo Roig Alsina and Rocío Gonzalez for their valuable help during the study of the types in MACN. We wish to thank Dr. Cristina Scioscia and the anonymous reviewer for their critical comments.

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