Eudexia grandis ( Townsend, 1935 ) Santis, 2021

Santis, Marcelo Domingos De, 2021, The Neotropical genus Eudexia Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1889 (Tachinidae: Dexiinae: Dexiini): lectotype fixation for the type species, synonymy and a new species from Brazil, Zootaxa 5004 (4), pp. 538-550 : 543

Eudexia grandis ( Townsend, 1935) , comb. nov.

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Chaetocalirrhoe grandis Townsend, 1935: 218 . References: Guimarães (1971: 28; catalog); O’Hara et al. (2020: 36; checklist of World Tachinidae ).

Material examined. Holotype male ( USNM; examined from photographs):“ Kenscoff / Haiti /24.VI.31/ Myers /2061”; “ Chaetocalirrhoe / grandis TT / Townsend / Det CHTT ♂ ”; “HT ♂ / Type ”; ‘USNMENT/01518135” . Holotype in good condition, but with left wing damaged, and scutum and scutellum damaged close to pin.

Diagnosis. Prementum short, about 0.5x length of head. Postpedicel light brown, but proximal 1/5 dark yellow. Upper calypter hyaline. Abdomen yellow with a continuous dorsal brownish-black median vitta, uninterrupted from syntergite 1+2 to tergite 5, and with silver pruinosity on tergites 3 to 5.

Distribution. Haiti (Kenscoff).

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FIGURE 3. Eudexia grandis (Townsend, 1935), holotype male (USNM). A. Dorsal habitus. B. Head, frontal view. C. Lateral habitus. D. Labels.