Pygodasis ephippium ephippium Say, 1837

Female. Body length 37.5 mm (range 30.1 mm – 43.3 mm); forewing length 28.7 mm; Structure. Clypeus, interantennal area and frons densely and coarsely punctured; vertex and gena with coarse scattered punctures; mesosoma coarsely punctured; propodeum densely and coarsely punctate throughout; hind tibial spurs acute. Color. Setae entirely black; orange maculations covering almost the entire disks of T2–T3; wings dark with violaceous reflections (Fig. 13).

Male. Body length 29 mm (range 19.6 mm – 35.4 mm); forewing length 23.7 mm; Structure. Clypeus margins, interantennal area and frons coarsely and densely punctate; punctures on vertex and gena coarse and sparse; mesosoma covered with coarse and dense punctures. Genitalia (Fig. 42F). Parameres robust, apex rounded, ventral face polished with long thick dense setae in the mid area; volsellae with dense long erect setae. Color. Resembling females (Fig. 14).

Valid subspecies Pygodasis ephippium wagneriana Saussure, 1864 is differentiated by wings yellowish hyaline with ferruginous veins (Bradley 1945).

Distribution: NA and NT. Mexico: Chiapas, Coahuila, Estado de México, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Nuevo León, Puebla, Querétaro, Sinaloa Veracruz, Yucatán. Guatemala: Huehuetenango (Map 4). Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana and United States of America (Bradley 1945; Porter 1981; Fernandez & Cubillos 1999).