ochracea Wiedemann, 1820

Chiromyza ochracea Wiedemann, 1820: 20 . Syntypes: 2 males (NMW, see comments below). Type locality: Brazil.

= Chiromyza fuscana Wiedemann, 1821: 115 (stated 65 in Woodley 2001: 47). Syntype: female (NMW). Type locality: “Amer. mer.” (stated as Brazil in Wiedemann 1828: 238).

= Cheiromyza ochracea Henning, 1832: 338 . Syntype: female (NMW). Type locality: Brazil. Preoccupied, secondary homonym of Chiromyza ochracea Wiedemann, 1820 .

References. Enderlein, 1921: 160 (suppl. descr., as Xenomorpha, C. fuscana as syn.); Bezzi, 1922: 119 (in key to species, as Chiromyza), 120 (record from Paraguay); James, 1973a: 26.2 (cat.); Woodley, 2001: 47 (cat., Paraguay not mentioned); Pujol-Luz, 2020: 6 (type specimens’ images).

Distribution. Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay (Alto Paraná: Puerto Bertoni), Peru.

Comments. Bezzi (1922: 120) reported Chiromyza vittata fuscana Wiedemann, 1821 from Puerto Bertoni, Alto Paraná, Paraguay, although he considered the species a variety of Chiromyza vittata Wiedemann, 1820 . In his same paper, he reported C. vittata ochracea Wiedemann, 1820 (species above) from the state of São Paulo, Brazil, and described a new variety: C. vittata viridis Bezzi, 1922 . Although he considered them all varieties of C. vittata, C. ochracea and C. viridis are currently valid and separated species from C. vittata, but C. fuscana is a synonym of C. ochracea (see James 1973a: 26.2; Woodley 2001: 47–48). Given that, the record presented by Bezzi (1922) for C. vittata fuscana from Paraguay should be assigned to C. ochracea, which then represents the second species of the genus in the country.

The information on the number of specimens in the type series of C. ochracea, that was not given in the original description and stated as “ syntype ♂ ” in Woodley (2001: 47), should be now read as “ two male syntypes ”, of which images of the specimens and labels are given in Pujol-Luz (2020).