Olbiogaster taeniata (Bellardi)

Huerta, Heron, Dzul-Manzanilla, Felipe, Navarrete-Carballo, Juan C., Manrique-Saide, Pablo & Hancock, E. Geoffrey, 2019, Olbiogaster Osten Sacken (Diptera: Anisopodidae) from Mexico, with the description of three new species, Zootaxa 4565 (4), pp. 475-492 : 489

Olbiogaster taeniata (Bellardi)

Rhyphus taeniatus Bellardi 1862: 5 . Type locality: Presa Tuxpango, Orizaba (Veracruz, figure habitus) [Holotype ♂ Bellardi Collection, Turin Museum of Natural History]. Osten Sacken 1878: 42 (Catalogue Diptera of North America).

Olbiogaster taeniatus (Bellardi) . Osten Sacken 1886 –1901: 21 (designation); Townsend 1897: 21 (comments of the species); Aldrich 1905: 173 (catalogue North American Diptera ); Coquillett 1910: 579 (Type species by designation); Edwards 1915: 502 (diagnosis); Edwards 1928: 21, 23 (comments); Carrera 1941: 195 (references); Corrêa 1946: 140; Sabrosky et al. 1999: 222 (family group names in Diptera ).

Olbiogaster taeniata (Bellardi) . Kertész 1902: 307 (Catalogue Dipterorum); Lane & d´Andretta 1958: 514 (key species); Alexander 1965: 191 (catalog of Diptera of America north of Mexico); Papavero 1967: 17.4 (catalogue of Diptera of the Americas south of the United States); Khalaf 1969: 267 (distribution, records of Mississippi state); Tozoni 1993: 119 –120 (comments); Peterson 1981: 308 (figures, male genitalia); Papavero & Ibáñez-Bernal 2001: 109 (history of Mexican Dipterology).

Distribution. Mexico (Veracruz, Fig. 10 ), USA (Texas, Florida, Mississippi). The type locality “Presa Tuxpango, Orizaba”.

Comments. Townsend (1897) indicated the identity of specimen male from Rio Nautla, Veracruz agrees with original description of Bellardi (1862), except the mid femur are mostly yellowish, probably this specimen not its conspecific with O. taeniata , by mid femur are mostly black. The key to species from Mexico were based on Edwards (1915).

Figures

FIGURE 10. Distribution of species Olbiogaster in Mexico: Olbiogaster halffteri sp. nov. (black circle); Olbiogaster mexicana (brown circle); Olbiogaster nuxco sp. nov. (yellow circle); Olbiogaster puuc sp. nov. (blue circle); Olbiogaster sackeni (red circle, only the specific distribution in Mexico is included); Olbiogaster taeniata (green circle, only the specific distribution in Mexico is included).