Zelia angusta ( Perty, 1833 ) Santis & O’Hara & Couri, 2024

Santis, Marcelo Domingos De, O’Hara, James E. & Couri, Márcia Souto, 2024, Partial revision of the exclusively Neotropical species of Zelia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (Tachinidae: Dexiinae: Dexiini), with the description of a new species, Zootaxa 5419 (1), pp. 1-52 : 8

Zelia angusta ( Perty, 1833) , comb. nov.

Diaugia angusta Perty 1833: 187 , plate 37, fig. 9. Type locality: Brazil, Minas Gerais. A remaining male syntype at USNM (sec Nihei & Pavarini, 2011). References: Macquart (1835: 210, discussion of systematic placement of Diaugia as “Dexiaires” [ Dexiini , in part]); Wulp (1891: 250c, discussion about the possible affinity between Leptoda [= Zelia ] and D. angusta ); Guimarães (1971: 101, as “Diaughia”, catalogue); Tschorsnig 1985: 100 (as “Diaughia”, citation, male terminalia characterization); Nihei & Pavarini (2011, taxonomic revision of D. angusta ); O’Hara et al. (2020: 42; checklist of World Tachinidae ).

Diagnosis. Eye bare. Facial carina undeveloped. Katerpisternum with 2 setae. Abdomen elongate and about twice the length of thorax, with tergite 5 ending in a conical shape. Without median marginal setae on tergites 3 and 4. Similar to Z. picta on abdominal characters, but can be differentiated by: interrupted median brown longitudinal vitta on syntergite 1+2 to tergite 5.

Complete redescription, including the description and illustration of male terminalia, and the recognition and description the female, was given by Nihei & Pavarini (2011).

Distribution. Brazil (Goiás, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina states).