Phasia varicolor (Curran, 1927) Sun & Marshall, 2003

Sun, Xuekui & Marshall, Stephen A., 2003, Systematics of Phasia Latreille (Diptera: Tachinidae), Zootaxa 276 (1), pp. 1-320 : 191

3.7. The Phasia varicolor species­group

The Phasia varicolor species­group includes the species previously placed in Besserioides ( sensu Crosskey 1973, 1976 ), Bogosiella (sensu Crosskey 1984) . Alophorophasia Townsend ( sensu Crosskey 1976 ), Efftayloria Malloch ( sensu Crosskey 1973 ), Bogosiella Villeneuve , Heyneophasia Townsend , Xanthotrichius Townsend , Xiphophasia Townsend , Trichophasia Townsend and Androeuryops Beneway. The Neotropical species , the species of Alophorophasia Townsend ( sensu Crosskey 1976 ) and Efftayloria Malloch ( sensu Crosskey 1973 ) are excluded from the current revision.

Diagnosis: Frons wider than ocellus; fronto­orbital plate bare or with 1­2 rows of hairs laterally; dorsal facets of eyes same size as ventral facets; inner margins of eyes usually parallel or nearly so. Parafacial bare; lower margin of face usually projecting; oral opening short. Thorax black or brown, pruinose or not. Scutellum black, with two pairs of marginal setae. Abdomen subovate or slender.