fraterculus Wiedemann, 1830: 524 (Dacus) . Type locality: Brazil, São Paulo. LT M (NHMW). Lectotype designation by inference of holotype by Greene, 1934: 165 (also see Loew, 1873: 223, 336, and Stone, 1942a: 78). Distr.: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Porto Rico, Republica Dominicana, Surinam, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Refs.: Loew, 1873: 222 (redesc.); Brèthes, 1908: 300 (cat.); Bezzi, 1909: 286 (in key); Hendel, 1914c: 14 (in key), 15 (cat.), 18 (redesc.); Fischer, 1932: 308 (distr.); Greene, 1934: 136 (in key), 164 (comm.); Lima, 1934b: 546 (redesc.); Hendel, 1936: 73 (distr.); Hering, 1941: 137 (in key), 139 (comm.); Stone, 1942a: 78 (redesc.); Aczél, 1950a: 210 (cat.); Foote, 1967: 10 (cat.); Hardy, 1968: 145 (type data); Korytkowski & Peña, 1968: 60 (redesc.); Zucchi, 1981: 289 (new syn.); Yepes & Vélez, 1989: 82 (distr.); Carrejo & González, 1994: 90 (distr.); Gonzáles et al., 1988: 334 (distr.); Norrbom et al., 1999b: 78 (cat.); Portilla et al., 1994: 262 (distr.); Patiño, 2002: 25 (distr.); Núñez Bueno et al., 2004: 7 (distr.); Martínez & Serna, 2005: 109 (distr.); Canal, 2010: 42 (distr.); Castañeda et al., 2010: 267 (distr.); Hernández-Ortiz et al., 2012: 306 (distr.); Sarmiento et al., 2012: 28 (distr.); Uchôa, 2012: 276 (distr.); Weems, 2012: 2 (distr.); Wyckhuys et al., 2012: 94 (distr.).

mellea Walker, 1837: 358 . ( Tephritis). Type locality: Brazil, St. Paul’s [São Paulo]. LT F (BMNH). (syn.).

unicolor Loew, 1862: 70 . ( Trypeta). Type locality: New Grenada [Colombia or Venezuela]. LT M (MCZ). Loew 1873: 222 (syn.).

frutalis Weyenbergh, 1874: 165 . ( Anthomyia). Type locality: Argentina, Cordoba. T A destroyed?. Type data (Horn & Kahle, 1937: 301). (syn.).

fraterculus var. soluta Bezzi, 1909: 284 . Type locality: Brazil, São Paulo. ST M/F (MCSNM?). Stone, 1942: 78 (syn.).

peruviana Townsend, 1913: 345 . Type locality: Peru, Lima, Chosica, 2800 ft. HT F (USNM). Stone, 1942: 78 (syn.).

braziliensis Greene,1934: 154 . Type locality: Brazil, Minas Gerais, Viçosa. HT F (USNM). Stone, 1942: 78 (syn.).

costarukmanii Capoor, 1954: 214 . Type locality: Brazil, Minas Gerais, Itajuba. HT F (IOC). Zucchi, 1 981: 289 (syn.).

scholae Capoor, 1955: 27 . Type locality: Brazil, Bahia, Agua Preta. LT F (IOC). Zucchi, 1981: 289 (syn.).

pseudofraterculus Capoor, 1955: 28 . Type locality: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Itatiaia. LT F (IOC). Zucchi, 1981: 289 (syn.).

lambayecae Korytkowski & Peña, 1968: 63 . Type locality: Peru, Lambayeque, Chiclayo, Chumbenique, 225 m. HT M (UPRG). (syn.).

fraterculus var. intensa Blanchard, 1941: 60 . Nomen nudum.

fraterculus var. retracta Hayward, 1941: 95 . Nomen nudum.

fraterculus “variacion” intermissa Blanchard, 1961: 319 . Nomen nudum.

fraterculus “variacion” intensa Blanchard, 1961: 319 . Nomen nudum.

fraterculus “variacion” retracta Blanchard, 1961: 319 . Nomen nudum.

fraterculus “variacion” ethaleiforme Blanchard, 1961: 320 . Nomen nudum.

fraterculus “variacion” tipica Blanchard, 1961: 319 . Nomen nudum.

fraterculus “variacion” acidusaeformis Blanchard, 1961: 320 . Nomen nudum.

fraterculus “variacion” subtipica Blanchard, 1961: 320 . Nomen nudum.

costa-rukmanii Capoor, 1954: 214 . (incosp. costarukmanii).

costa-bukmanii Capoor, 1954: 214 . (incosp. costarukmanii).

pseudo-fraterculus Capoor, 1955: 28 . (incosp. pseudofraterculus).