Metagonistylum minense, (Townsend), 1927

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minense ( Townsend), 1927 : 381 (Metagonistylum).

Type locality: Brazil, Minas Gerais, Viçosa. HT F (USNM). Distr.: USA (introduced), West Indies (introduced), Panama (introduced), Guyana (introduced), Colombia (introduced), Trinidad (introduced), Venezuela (introduced), Bolivia, and Brazil ( Thompson, 1960: 212; Guimarães, 1971a: 210; Bennett, 1971; Bustillo, 2011; Mosquera & Viafara, 2008; Grenier, 1988: 51). Refs.: Aldrich, 1933: 171 (redesc.), Thompson, 1960: 212 (key to tachinid parasitoids of Diatraea , larval desc., biology); Guimarães, 1971a: 210 (cat.); Woodley, 1994: 131 (new comb.). Comm.: Townsend (1939a: 343) proposed the name Metagonistylum myersi to refer to the Amazonian specimens collected by Myers (1934) to erect his (nudum) genus Amazonella . Aldrich (1933: 171) described Myers’ specimens from Santarém (Pará State, Brazil) as Metagonistylum minense . But Townsend (1939a: 343) in his Manual of Myiology added some (two) descritive lines to differentiate what he believed to be a good species (his M. myersi ). Guimarães (1971a: 210) considered myersi Townsend a junior synonym of minense , and this statement is maintained here.

myersi ( Townsend), 1939a : 343 ( Metagonistylum ).