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03ECBC0DD40CC9373EB7F8D1FB21FD44.text	03ECBC0DD40CC9373EB7F8D1FB21FD44.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Eudexia mellea (Giglio-Tos 1893) Santis & Couri 2025	<div><p>Eudexia mellea (Giglio-Tos, 1893) comb. nov.</p><p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 0FAC81C3-9AAE-4B7B-9BC2-308E8A4B0342</p><p>(Figure 1)</p><p>Hystrichodexia mellea Giglio-Tos, 1893: 2 . References: Giglio-Tos (1894: 58, complete description of male); Guimarães (1971: 30, catalog); O’Hara et al. (2020: 53, checklist of World  Tachinidae). Type locality: Mexico, Oaxaca.</p><p>Lectotype designation for  Hystrichodexia mellea Giglio-Tos, 1893</p><p>Lectotype ♂, labeled as follows: [first label uncomprehensible]; ‘Oaxaca’; ‘  Hystrichodexia / mellea/ ♂ Giglio-Tos’; ‘ HOLOTYPE ♂ / of  Hystrichodexia / mellea G.-T./ examined 1982/ D.M. Wood’; ‘Dexia 1. ♂ / Oaxaca (Sallé)’ [Specimen in good condition, but with mold, mainly at the head, antennae partially broken and barely visible].</p><p>Recognition. Large tachinid, with scutum brownish, scutellum tawny to yellowish and abdomen broad, yellowish, with triangular black spot at apical middle of syntergite 1+2 and tergite 3, with blackish spline-like setae throughout the abdomen.</p><p>Diagnosis. Vertex broad, about 0.35x of head width in dorsal view, at most 0.15 in other species. Legs yellowish. Abdomen tawny-yellowish, but with syntergite 1+2 and tergite 3 with a triangular black spot at apical middle; without pruinosity; and tergite 5 with only posterior most region, about 1/9, brownish. This species is morphologically close to  Eudexia colombiana (Townsend, 1929) —see fig. 2 of Santis (2021) —but can be readily differentiated from  E. mellea comb. nov. by having the upper calypter yellowish (slightly brownish-black in  E. colombiana), fore femur entirely yellowish (mostly yellowish, with portions of ventral regions blackish in  E. colombiana), abdomen with syntergite 1+2 with conspicuous triangular black spot (absent in  E. colombiana) and tergite 5 with only posterior most region, about 1/9, brownish (pale brownish in  E. colombiana).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ECBC0DD40CC9373EB7F8D1FB21FD44	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Santis, Marcelo Domingos De;Couri, Márcia Souto	Santis, Marcelo Domingos De, Couri, Márcia Souto (2025): An additional Mexican species for the Neotropical genus Eudexia Brauer and Bergenstamm (Tachinidae, Dexiini), with a redescription and lectotype fixation. Zootaxa 5636 (1): 188-192, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5636.1.10, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5636.1.10
03ECBC0DD40FC9313EB7F922FA73FE4D.text	03ECBC0DD40FC9313EB7F922FA73FE4D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Eudexia Brauer and Bergenstamm 1889	<div><p>Key to the species of  Eudexia, modified from Santis (2021)</p><p>1. Prementum long, about 2x length of head........................................................  E. brevicornis</p><p>- Prementum short, at most 0.5x length of head............................................................... 2</p><p>2. Vertex broad, about 0.35x head width in dorsal view, legs enterally yellowish................................  E. mellea</p><p>- Vertex narrow, at most 0.15x head width in dorsal view, legs brownish, at most with some portions of femur tawny-yellowish........................................................................................... 3</p><p>3. Abdomen without pruinosity and with a dorsal brownish black median vitta interrupted from syntergite 1+2 to tergite 5.... 4</p><p>- Abdomen with whitish pruinosity on tergites 3 to 5 and with a dorsal and continuous median vitta uninterrupted from syntergite 1+2 to tergite 5....................................................................................... 5</p><p>4. Postpedicel orange; upper calypter hyaline; abdomen with an inconspicuous and narrow brownishblack median vitta....................................................................................................  E. lopesi</p><p>- Postpedicel light brown, but proximal 1/5 dark yellow; upper calypter smoky to light brown or hyaline with distal margin light brown; abdomen with a conspicuous and broad brownish black longitudinal vitta............................  E. grandis</p><p>5. Tergite 5 black, abdomen light yellow to tawny yellow in ground color........................................... 6</p><p>- Tergite 5 pale brownish, abdomen slightly reddish-yellow to yellow in ground color.....................  E. colombiana</p><p>6. Postpronotal lobe, notopleuron, posterior callus and scutellum reddish-yellow in ground color...............  E. dreisbachi</p><p>- Postpronotal lobe, notopleuron, posterior callus and scutellum brownish-black in ground color........................ 7</p><p>7. Upper calypter hyaline, with distal margin light brown; abdominal tergites 3 and 4 with a well-developed and conspicuous dorsal brownish black median vitta where the discal setae arise......................................  E. formidabilis</p><p>- Upper calypter dark brown; abdominal tergites 3 and 4 with a very thin dorsal brownish black median vitta and an inconspicuous median vitta where the discal setae arise..........................................................  E. orientalis</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ECBC0DD40FC9313EB7F922FA73FE4D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Santis, Marcelo Domingos De;Couri, Márcia Souto	Santis, Marcelo Domingos De, Couri, Márcia Souto (2025): An additional Mexican species for the Neotropical genus Eudexia Brauer and Bergenstamm (Tachinidae, Dexiini), with a redescription and lectotype fixation. Zootaxa 5636 (1): 188-192, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5636.1.10, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5636.1.10
