Overview of the Sciomyzidae (Diptera: Sciomyzoidea) of the Americas south of the United States Author Murphy, William L. 0000-0002-0085-6998 Research Collaborator, Smithsonian Institution, 7835 Tufton Street, Fishers, Indiana 46038, U. S. A. murph 3000 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0085 - 6998 murph3000@gmail.com Author Abercrombie, Jay 0009-0007-7739-8749 2321 Bixler Drive, Suffield, Ohio 44260, U. S. A. marshfly @ sbcglobal. net; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0007 - 7739 - 8749 marshfly@sbcglobal.net Author González, Christian R. 0000-0003-2582-6071 Instituto de Entomología, Facultad de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, Santiago, Chile christian. gonzalez @ umce. cl; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2582 - 6071 christian.gonzalez@umce.cl Author Knutson, Lloyd Systematic Entomology Laboratory (Emeritus), U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., U. S. A. Last address: Salita degli Albito, 29, 04024 Gaeta LT, Italy (deceased) Corresponding author text Zootaxa 2023 2023-09-14 5345 1 1 113 https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5345.1.1/51853 journal article 311707 10.11646/zootaxa.5345.1.1 3fb229d7-0760-4705-871e-6b39ecf2f5ad 1175-5334 8345756 A49224E8-AFEE-47F4-A62E-34BE0800FDDC telson (Steyskal), 1951: 291 ( Sepedon ), figs. 16a–b (♂ terminalia, surstylus) [ Steyskal 1973: 145 ] HT: ♂ Brazil , Minas Gerais , Juiz de Fora, I.1945 , H. de Souza Lopes. Originally in CEIOC , unnumbered. Lost. Lectotype designation needed. Note: Márcio Felix, CEIOC , in litt. 11 November 2019 to WLM: “Many specimens were taken without registration from the collection in the 60’s and 70’s, during the military dictatorship in Brazil . So, we do not know where they are right now.” AT: ♀ Brazil , Minas Gerais , Juiz de Fora, I.1945 , H. de Souza Lopes PT: 4♂ Brazil , Minas Gerais , Juiz de Fora, I.1945 , H. de Souza Lopes, CEIOC ; 1♂ same data according to Steyskal (1951) but actually labeled “Juiz De Fora, Salvaterra, Lopes, Jan, 945 ( sic ).” USNM DIST: BRAZIL (Distrito Federal, Goiás , Mato Grosso do Sul , Minas Gerais , Paraná , Rio Grande do Sul , Santa Catarina , S ã o Paulo). Maps: Freidberg et al . 1991 , Ciprandi Pires et al . 2008 , Ciprandi Pires & Marinoni 2010 FIGS: Freidberg et al . 1991 (mid femur, hind leg, ♂ sternites, distiphallus, posterior surstyli, ♀ synsternum), Marinoni & Mathis 2006 (surstylus; spermatheca), Savaris et al . 2019 (habitus) BIOL: Abercrombie 1970 , 2000 ; Mello & Bredt 1978b (phenology). BG: 11; PG: 6 HOSTS/PREY OF LARVAE: Aplexa marmorata , Biomphalaria glabrata , B . helophila , B . tenagophila , Drepanotrema kermatoides , Galba humilis , Gyraulus parvus , Helisoma trivolvis , Physella gyrina , Planorbella duryi , Stagnicola elodes , and Tarebia granifera IMMATS: Freidberg et al . 1991 (E, L1–L3, P)