Messiasia zikani d’Andretta, 1951

Yamaguchi, Carolina & Lamas, Carlos José Einicker, 2009, A catalogue of the types of Asiloidea (Diptera) in the collection of the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (Part 1: Bombyliidae and Mydidae), Zootaxa 2146, pp. 35-52 : 49

Messiasia zikani d’Andretta, 1951 .

d’Andretta, 1951: 67-68 (original description); 15, figure 47 (head); 31, figure 87 (wing); 49, figure 163 (male genitalia); 53, figure 166 (left sclerite of 9th tergite of male genitalia, in dorsal view); 57, figure 176 (9th sternite male genitalia, in ventral view); and 61, figure 177-178 (aedeagus).

Type locality: San Bernardino, Cordillera, Paraguay.

Allotype female with labels: (1) printed on white paper: “S. [San] Bernardino | Paraguay ”; (2) printed on white paper: “K. Eiebrig | collector”; (3) printed on red paper: “ALOTIPO”; (4) printed on white paper: “20.229”; (5) handwritten on white paper: “ Messiasia Ψ | zikani n. sp. | d’Andretta 1951 ”.

Preservation: Pinned; right antenna on plastic vial pinned with the specimen and right wing mounted on slide. Missing parts: none.