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03CC87B4FFF2FFBCFE4EFC35C518FA4A.text	03CC87B4FFF2FFBCFE4EFC35C518FA4A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Euxesta abdominalis Loew 1868	<div><p>Euxesta abdominalis Loew, 1868</p><p>Fig. 1d</p><p>Euxesta abdominalis Loew, 1868:307 (description), 1873:163 (English translation of description); Hendel, 1909:152 (key), 170 (comparison with argentina), 1910:25 (catalog); Curran, 1935:10 (key); Steyskal, 1968:54. 16 (catalog); Kameneva, 2004:614 (records from Central America).</p><p>Type Specimen.  Syntype 1 ♂, labeled: “Cuba, Pocis [???; unclear handwriting; green paper]”; “159”; “basalis m. abdominal.” [Loew’s handwriting]; “coll. Loew”; “Type 13264” (MCZ).</p><p>Additional Specimens Examined.  1 ♀, ANGUILLA: 28.XII.1983, Parker (USNM), new country record.  1 ♀, BELIZE: Johnson (LACM). 1 ♂, COSTA RICA: San José, Farm La Caja, 20.VII.[19]19, H. Schmidt (USNM); 3 ♂, 4 ♀, Hiquito, San Mateo [no date], P. Schild (USNM); 1 ♂, 1 ♀ Cartago: Turrialba, 29. XI. 1979, [ex] “papaya” [specimens with puparia, reared], Fischer (USNM).  1 ♂, 3 ♀, CUBA: “Pöpp, 1843”,  “abdominalis / Alte Sammlung” (NHMW).  1 ♂, HONDURAS: La Ceiba, 10.X.1966, Dyer (USNM). 1 ♀, MEXICO: Tampico, IX.1965, Krauss (USNM); 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Veracruz [no date], Crawford (USNM). 12 ♂, 12 ♀, U.S.A.: Florida: Dade Co., VI.1976, Higgins (USNM); 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Miami, 12.IV.1967, Stegmaier (USNM).</p><p>Remarks. Described from both male and female syntypes from the collection of J. C. Gundlach and deposited in the collection of the Cuban National Museum of History of Sciences (Havana), which have not been examined. EPK examined the specimen from MCZ in 2001; it is still unclear if it is one of the Cuban specimens determined by Loew after 1868. Hendel’s description of  E. wettsteinii fits the original description and morphology of  E. abdominalis, except the syntergite 1+2 entirely black (partly brownish yellow in  E. abdominalis). However, in three of four females from Hiquito, San Mateo (Costa Rica) here determined as  E. abdominalis, the abdomen is entirely black as in  E. wettsteini, showing that their differences may be only a result of individual variability.</p><p>Distribution. Anguilla (this study), Bahamas, Bermuda, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mona, Saint Thomas, Saint Martin, Jamaica; Costa Rica, Panama (Steyskal 1968), Belize, Honduras (Kameneva 2004), Mexico (Segura Ponce de León, 2021), U.S.A.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CC87B4FFF2FFBCFE4EFC35C518FA4A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Korneyev, Severyn V.;Hauser, Martin;Kameneva, Elena P.;Gaimari, Stephen D.	Korneyev, Severyn V., Hauser, Martin, Kameneva, Elena P., Gaimari, Stephen D. (2022): A key to species of the Euxesta sororcula species group (Diptera: Ulidiidae: Lipsanini), with new synonymy and a new record from the U. S. A. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 98 (2): 150-162, DOI: 10.3956/2022-98.2.150, URL: https://doi.org/10.3956/2022-98.2.150
03CC87B4FFF5FFBDFE73FA70C0B8FE72.text	03CC87B4FFF5FFBDFE73FA70C0B8FE72.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Euxesta latifasciata Wulp 1899	<div><p>Euxesta latifasciata Wulp, 1899</p><p>Fig. 1a</p><p>Euxesta latifasciata Wulp, 1899:397 (description); Hendel, 1909:154 (key), 167 (comparison with  E. obliquestriata and  E. sororcula), 1910:27 (catalog); Curran, 1935:10 (key); Steyskal, 1968:54. 18 (catalog).</p><p>Type Specimens. Syntypes  2 ♂, both labeled:“MEXICO, Cuernavaca in Morelos” and 1 ♀, labeled: “Tierra Colorada in Guerrero” (H. H. Smith) (NHMUK). Not examined .</p><p>Remarks. Wulp (1899:tab. XL, fig. 9) illustrated the wing and diagnosed the species in the key as having four bands on the wing, of which the discal and subapical ones are much widened towards the posterior margin and the apical crossband being wider than the hyaline space between the subapical and apical, as well as having the legs rufous.</p><p>The Data Portal of the NHMUK (BMNH, 2021a) refers to a “lectotype and paralectotype,” but no formal lectotype designations have ever been published.</p><p>Distribution. Mexico.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CC87B4FFF5FFBDFE73FA70C0B8FE72	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Korneyev, Severyn V.;Hauser, Martin;Kameneva, Elena P.;Gaimari, Stephen D.	Korneyev, Severyn V., Hauser, Martin, Kameneva, Elena P., Gaimari, Stephen D. (2022): A key to species of the Euxesta sororcula species group (Diptera: Ulidiidae: Lipsanini), with new synonymy and a new record from the U. S. A. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 98 (2): 150-162, DOI: 10.3956/2022-98.2.150, URL: https://doi.org/10.3956/2022-98.2.150
03CC87B4FFF4FFBEFE5BFE10C38EFE72.text	03CC87B4FFF4FFBEFE5BFE10C38EFE72.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Euxesta leucomelas (Walker 1861)	<div><p>Euxesta leucomelas (Walker, 1861)</p><p>Fig. 1b</p><p>Ortalis leucomelas Walker, 1861:325 (description).</p><p>Euxesta leucomelas: Hendel, 1909:171 (key); 1910:27 (catalog, combination); Steyskal, 1968:54. 18 (catalog).</p><p>Euxesta fascipennis Wulp, 1899:398 (description); Hendel, 1910:26 (catalog); Curran, 1935:12 (key); Steyskal, 1968:54. 18 (catalog, synonymy).</p><p>Type specimens.   Syntype,  Ortalis leucomelas, [1 specimen, sex unknown], [Brazil] (BMNH(E)252334). Not examined  .</p><p>Syntypes,  Euxesta fascipennis,  7 ♂, 3 ♀ labeled: “Mexico, Orizaba” (H. H. Smith &amp; F. D. Godman), “Tepetlapa in Guerrero 3000 feet, Medellin near Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith)” (BMNH(E)252325–252333). Not examined.</p><p>Remarks. Walker (1861) described  O. leucomelas based on an unknown number of specimens of unknown sex as follows:</p><p>“ Nigro-viridis, antennis pedibus que nigris, tarsis piceis, alis albis nigro-quadrifasciatis, fascia 1â basali, 2â 3â que posticèdilatatis, 4â costali; halteribus albis.</p><p>Blackish-green; antennae and legs black; tarsi piceous; wings white, with four black bands; first band near the base; second broad, much dilated hindward; third narrow, also dilated hind- ward; fourth costal, joining the third at much beyond half the length of the costa, and extending thence to a little beyond the tip of the wing; discal transverse vein parted by one-fourth of its length from the border, and by more than twice its length from the praebrachial transverse vein; halteres white. Length of the body 2 ½ lines; of the wings 4 lines. South America.”</p><p>Wulp (1899) described his species (as  E. fascipennis) as follows, and provided the figure reproduced here (Fig. 1b):</p><p>“Metallic bluish-black; frons and antennae rufous; legs blackish; wings hyaline, with four blackish bands, the discal and subapical much enlarged towards the hind margin, the fourth at the tip of the wing and narrower than the hyaline space before it.</p><p>Length 3. 5 mm.</p><p>Closely related to  E. latifasciata and agreeing with it in most of its characters. The metallic coloration is more obscure, but on the face it is more extended; the tip of the scutellum is not rufous; the abdomen is more shining black; the legs are blackish, the femora with metallic green reflections, the base only of the tarsi rufous (in one of the specimens, perhaps a not fully coloured one, the legs are rufous). The discal and subapical bands on the wings, though enlarged towards the hind margin, are narrower than in  E. latifasciata, and the hyaline space between the subapical and apical ones is much broader than the bands themselves. The apical joint of the ovipositor of the female is cylindrical and rufous.”</p><p>Both nominal species were considered synonyms by Steyskal (1968) in his Neotropical Catalogue based on the study of the types from the NHMUK, but without designation of lectotypes. Walker (1861) did not state the number or sex of his type specimens, so the single specimen in the Saunders collection labeled as this species formally has the status of syntype.</p><p>The Data Portal of the NHMUK (BMNH 2021a, b, c) refers to “holotype” and “lectotype and paralectotypes” of both nominal species, but they are all actually syntypes.</p><p>Distribution. Brazil, Guyana, Mexico.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CC87B4FFF4FFBEFE5BFE10C38EFE72	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Korneyev, Severyn V.;Hauser, Martin;Kameneva, Elena P.;Gaimari, Stephen D.	Korneyev, Severyn V., Hauser, Martin, Kameneva, Elena P., Gaimari, Stephen D. (2022): A key to species of the Euxesta sororcula species group (Diptera: Ulidiidae: Lipsanini), with new synonymy and a new record from the U. S. A. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 98 (2): 150-162, DOI: 10.3956/2022-98.2.150, URL: https://doi.org/10.3956/2022-98.2.150
03CC87B4FFF7FFB0FE4AFE15C2D4FA2A.text	03CC87B4FFF7FFB0FE4AFE15C2D4FA2A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Euxesta obliquestriata Hendel 1909	<div><p>Euxesta obliquestriata Hendel, 1909</p><p>Figs. 1e; 2</p><p>Euxesta obliquestriata Hendel, 1909:167 (description, diagnosis), 1910:27 (catalog); Curran, 1935:11 (key); Steyskal, 1968:54. 18 (catalog).</p><p>Euxesta mazorca Steyskal, 1974:73 (description); Cruz et al., 2011:103 (record from Brazil); Díaz, 1982:51 (record from Peru); Huepe et al., 1986:17, 18 (record from Chile); Bertolaccini et al., 2010:215 (record from Argentina); syn. nov.</p><p>Type Specimens. Syntypes:  Euxesta obliquestriata,   1 ♀, BOLIVIA, labeled: “Meshagua, Bolivia / Songo”; “  Euxesta / obliquestriata H. det. F. Hendel”; “coll. Hendel”; “Paratype” [yellow paper]; “Syntype  Euxesta obliquestriata Hendel 1909 des. Korneyev &amp; Kameneva 2001” (NHMW).  1 ♂, labeled: “Mapiri/2000m, 4.V.[19]03 / Lorenzopata” (SMTD). 1 ♀, labeled: “Bolivia-Mapiri / IV.[19]03 / S. Carlos 800m” (SMTD). 1 ♀, BRAZIL, labeled: “Stiglmayr / Rio Gr. [ande] do Sul” (HNHM). 2 ♀, BRAZIL, labeled: “Theresopolis / Brasil” (HNHM). 1 ♀, PARAGUAY, labeled: “Vezényi / Asuncion 1904” (HNHM) (examined by EPK).</p><p>Holotype,  Euxesta mazorca,   ♀, ECUADOR, labeled: “Quito Equa/2500m alt. | Estac. exper. / Sta Cataline / Aug 1966 / V. Vazquez | Feeding on tip of corn ear # xs 218”; “HOLOTYPE /  Euxesta / mazorca / Steyskal \ USNM 72830” [Steyskal handwriting on red paper rectangle] (USNM).</p><p>Allotype and Paratypes,  Euxesta mazorca:  1 ♂ allotype, 3 ♂, 1 ♀ paratypes, same labels as holotype except for “ALLOTYPE” and “PARATYPE” (USNM) (examined by EPK in 2001).</p><p>Additional Specimens Examined.  1 ♂, ARGENTINA: Salta: Rosario de Lerma, Malaise trap, 21–25.XII.1983 (CSCA); 2 ♂, 10–14.XI.1983 (CSCA); 1 ♀, 17–18. XI.1983, M. Wasbauer (CSCA). 1 ♀, BOLIVIA: Prov. La Paz: Cumbre Alto Beni, vicinity of Caranavi, 1685 m, 15°40′19″S 67°29′35″W, Malaise Trap, 15–21. IV. 2004, S. D. Gaimari &amp; M. Hauser (CSCA); 1 ♀, 16.VI.2004, S. D. Gaimari &amp; M. Hauser (CSCA).</p><p>Remarks. Hendel (1909:155) differentiated this species from  E. sororcula as having: “die Spitzenbinde ist breiter als der glashelle Zwischenraum davor. Aussenrand der zweiten Querbinde concav” [the apical band wider than the hyaline interspace before it. Outer edge of the second crossband concave]. He described the species as closely related to  E. sororcula and  E. latifasciata and easily confused with them. It is distinguished from the former by the always slightly concave, non-convex outer edge of the discal wing band, the shape of the subapical crossband, which is much wider posteriorly and covers the crossvein dm-m almost in the middle, not at the proximal edge, and the much wider apical band, which is always wider than the narrow hyaline interspace before it. In  E. sororcula, according to Hendel (loc. cit.), the interspace between the discal and subapical bands is more oblique and curved in a way that its concavity is on the proximal margin. The costal band is narrower than the interspace proximal to it. Hendel (1909) mentions that  E. latifasciata differs according to the description and illustration by the scutellum reddish posteriorly and reddish legs, whereas  E. obliquestriata fits Loew’s description of  E. sororcula . The wing pattern of  E. latifasciata resembles that of  E obliquestriata except for the shape of the hyaline interspace proximal to the wing apex, which is concave outside instead of on the inside. Body (without ovipositor) and wing 4–5 mm long (Hendel, 1909:167).</p><p>Steyskal (1974) described  E. mazorca as follows:</p><p>“Length of wing 4.0–4.8 mm. Agrees with  E. obliquestriata in basic pattern of wing, interantennal space of same color as lower parts of face (not dull black), wholly dark metallic blue-green abdomen, and largely black legs. Head as in Fig. 2; largely yellowish, metallic greenish on frontal triangle, parafrontal plates, vertex, and occiput; middle of face and sides of clypeus infuscated to variable extent; antenna usually wholly orange, but 3rd segment sometimes a little infuscated above; front largely almost polished, narrow orbits silvery tomentose.</p><p>Thorax wholly metallic greenish, mesoscutum lightly pale grayish tomentose with indistinct more blackish arcuate postsutural transverse band, especially evident above wing bases; scutellum blackish. Angle between line connecting posterior dorsocentral bristles and each acrostichal bristle 45°.</p><p>Legs largely metallic greenish; forecoxa (except basilateral oval dark spot), most of inner face of forefemur, fore- and midbasitarsi, hindbasitarsus (except more or less of tip), and distal end of forefemur tawny.</p><p>Wing as in Fig. 1 [= Fig. 2b in the present work] medial hyaline band attaining costa in nearly full width, impinging on only small apical part of 1st vein (R 1); preapical hyaline band somewhat narrower than apical brown band; section of 4th vein crossing preapical hyaline band about equal in length to apical section in brown area; length of apical brown area in discal cell less than half as great on 5th vein as on 4th vein; brown area in base of 2nd costal cell squarish, not extended along costa; extension of tip of anal cell about as long as greatest width of cell.</p><p>Abdomen wholly metallic bluish green, very lightly pale tomentose.”</p><p>Steyskal wrote that the type series of  E. mazorca had previously been identified as  E. obliquestriata . Nonetheless, he did not compare these two nominal species at all.</p><p>In 2001, EPK studied the type series of both  E. obliquestriata and  E. mazorca and found no essential characters to distinguish them; all the minor differences in coloration and wing pattern are variable, leaving no gap between them. We consider these species to be conspecific and thus the names to be synonyms. The wing depicted in Hendel (1910) (see Fig. 2a) has some differences from our illustration made from the same wing of the same specimen (Fig. 2c) and does not show differences from that of  E. mazorca .</p><p>Distribution. Argentina (Bertolaccini, 2010), Colombia, Ecuador, Peru (Steyskal, 1974), Chile (Huepe et al., 1986), Brazil (Hendel, 1909; Cruz et al., 2011), Bolivia, Paraguay (Hendel, 1909).</p><p>Biology and Economic Importance.  Euxesta obliquestriata is considered a major pest of sweet corn (Díaz 1982, Huepe et al. 1986 [as  E. mazorca]), along with some other  Chaetopsis and  Euxesta species, but it is not clear if they infest corn only as secondary invaders, together with the other species, or as independent pests. Also, it is not always clear whether the species was identified by an expert, and therefore some specimens reported in the literature as  E. obliquestriata may refer to other species. However, it is obvious that it is widespread throughout the tropics of the New World, where it is a native pest associated with corn plantations not treated with pesticides.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CC87B4FFF7FFB0FE4AFE15C2D4FA2A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Korneyev, Severyn V.;Hauser, Martin;Kameneva, Elena P.;Gaimari, Stephen D.	Korneyev, Severyn V., Hauser, Martin, Kameneva, Elena P., Gaimari, Stephen D. (2022): A key to species of the Euxesta sororcula species group (Diptera: Ulidiidae: Lipsanini), with new synonymy and a new record from the U. S. A. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 98 (2): 150-162, DOI: 10.3956/2022-98.2.150, URL: https://doi.org/10.3956/2022-98.2.150
03CC87B4FFF9FFB1FE57FA53C55EF94A.text	03CC87B4FFF9FFB1FE57FA53C55EF94A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Euxesta sororcula (Wiedemann 1830)	<div><p>Euxesta sororcula (Wiedemann, 1830)</p><p>Figs. 1d; 3</p><p>Ortalis sororcula Wiedemann, 1830:463 (original description).  Euxesta sororcula Hendel, 1909:154 (key), 167 (comparison), 1910:28 (catalog); Curran, 1935:11 (key); Steyskal, 1968:54. 19 (catalog); Martos-Tupes, 1982:55 (pest status); Kameneva, 2004:619 (material).</p><p>Type Specimen.   Syntype ♂, BRAZIL, labeled: “  Ortalis sororcula W. Amer. [ica] mer. [idionalis]” (NHMD).</p><p>Additional Specimens Examined.  1 ♂, BOLIVIA: Prov. La Paz: Mapiri, 640 m, ex lights, 15°18′26″S 68°13′14″W, 10.IV.2004, S. D. Gaimari (CSCA); 1 ♀, 680 m, along road, 15°18′48″S 68°13′27″W, 11.IV.2004, S. D. Gaimari (CSCA); 1 ♀, Alto San Lorenzo Valley, vicinity of Caranavi, 1400 m, 15°47′48″S 67°28′11″W, flowering tree, 17.IV.2004, S. D. Gaimari (CSCA). 1 ♀, BRAZIL: “Brasilia / Coll. Winthem”, (NHMW);  1 ♀, “Brasilien”  “sororcula, Alte Sammlung ” (NHMW).  1 ♀, COSTA RICA: Prov. Alajuela: E San Gerardo, S San Cristobal, S Palo Seco, 600 m, 24–28.IV.2000, Bricefio (INBC); 1 ♀, Prov. Cartago: Turrialba, La Suiza, 31.VIII.1924, Schild (USNM); 1 ♀, Prov. Guanacaste: 9 km S Santa Cecilia, Est. Pitilla, 700 m, 31.III–15.IV.1992 Rios (INBC); 2 ♂, Prov. Puntarenas: Peninsula de Osa, Rancho Quemado, 200 m, II.1992, Quesada (INBC). 2 ♀, GUATEMALA: Antigua, 1.IX.1951, Painter (USNM); 1 ♂, Lake Atitlán, 20.VIII.1965, Spangler (USNM). 1 ♀, HONDURAS: Dept. Francisco Morazan Zambrano: 40 km NW Tegucigalpa, 17.XI.1987, Knutson (USNM); 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 24.XII.1965, Freytag (USNM). 1? MEXICO: Puebla: 5 km S Huapanapan (Hwy 125), 6015ft, 18°06′30″S 97°41′13″W, 22.X.2004, C. L. Bellamy (CSCA); 1 ♀, [Veracruz], Orizaba, 1871, Bilimek (NHMW). 2 ♀, U.S.A.: Texas: Donna, 8.X.1933, J. W. Monk (TAMU); 1 ♀, Tex. [Texas]: Alamo, 12.I.1984, Paul T. Riherd (TAMU);  1 ♂, Texas: Govt Springs, Grapevine Hills, Big Bend Nat Park,  Sphaeralcea angustifolia, 1.IX.1971, E. E. Grissell, R. F. Denno Col (UCDC), new country record, new state record.  2? VENEZUELA: “Lindig/1864 / Venezuela”, 2 ex. (NHMW).</p><p>Distribution. Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica (Kameneva, 2004), Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru (Steyskal, 1968), Venezuela, USA (Texas) (this study).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CC87B4FFF9FFB1FE57FA53C55EF94A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Korneyev, Severyn V.;Hauser, Martin;Kameneva, Elena P.;Gaimari, Stephen D.	Korneyev, Severyn V., Hauser, Martin, Kameneva, Elena P., Gaimari, Stephen D. (2022): A key to species of the Euxesta sororcula species group (Diptera: Ulidiidae: Lipsanini), with new synonymy and a new record from the U. S. A. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 98 (2): 150-162, DOI: 10.3956/2022-98.2.150, URL: https://doi.org/10.3956/2022-98.2.150
03CC87B4FFFBFFB2FE71FF1DC07EFC62.text	03CC87B4FFFBFFB2FE71FF1DC07EFC62.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Euxesta wettsteini Hendel 1909	<div><p>Euxesta wettsteini Hendel, 1909</p><p>Fig. 1c</p><p>Euxesta wettsteini Hendel, 1909:154 (key), 165 (description), 1910:28 (catalog); Curran, 1935:12 (key); Steyskal, 1968:54. 20 (catalog); Kameneva, 2004:619 (material).</p><p>Type Specimens.   Syntypes 3 ♀, BRAZIL: São Paulo, labeled: “Iguape/Young”; “Bras. Exped. / Wettstein. [18]91”;  “wettsteini H. / det. F. Hendel \  Euxesta ”; “Type” [thick red paper]; “Syntype  Euxesta wettsteini Hendel 1909 des. Korneyev &amp; Kameneva 2001” (NHMW).  Syntype 1 ♂, same labels as above (HMNH), not examined.</p><p>Additional Specimens Examined. 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: Prov. Guanacaste: A. C. T., Est. Lomas Barbudal, 30 m, VII.1991, Acevedo (INBC); 1 ♀, 2 km E Hacienda Palo Verde, VII.1973, Keeler (USNM); 1 ♀, Prov. Puntarenas: Coto [Brus], finca 47, 25.VII.1957, Menke (LACM).</p><p>Remarks. As noted above,  E. wettsteini differs from  E. abdominalis only by the syntergite 1+2 entirely black (instead of dirty yellow in  E. abdominalis). Three of the four females in a series from Costa Rica have entirely black abdomens as in  E. wettsteini, and one female has yellowish base of abdomen as in the three males; all the specimens here identified as  E. wettsteinii are also females that possibly shows their differences to be only a result of sexual dimorphism or individual variability (including geographical). We do not formally synonymize these two names, as additional studies of larger series including the genital characters are needed.</p><p>Distribution. Brazil, Paraguay, Trinidad, U.S.A. (Hawaii) (Steyskal 1969), Venezuela (Steyskal 1968).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CC87B4FFFBFFB2FE71FF1DC07EFC62	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Korneyev, Severyn V.;Hauser, Martin;Kameneva, Elena P.;Gaimari, Stephen D.	Korneyev, Severyn V., Hauser, Martin, Kameneva, Elena P., Gaimari, Stephen D. (2022): A key to species of the Euxesta sororcula species group (Diptera: Ulidiidae: Lipsanini), with new synonymy and a new record from the U. S. A. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 98 (2): 150-162, DOI: 10.3956/2022-98.2.150, URL: https://doi.org/10.3956/2022-98.2.150
03CC87B4FFFBFFB3FE0FFC0FC562FE75.text	03CC87B4FFFBFFB3FE0FFC0FC562FE75.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Ortalis sororcula	<div><p>Key to species of the  E. sororcula species group:</p><p>1. Wing with four complete crossbands, of which the 2nd (discal) and 3rd (subapical) crossbands are conspicuously widened posteriorly........................ 2</p><p>– Wing pattern different; if with 4 brown crossbands, then 2nd and 3rd with subparallel margins, or the 3rd one narrow, or wing pattern not crossbanded.................................................................. other  Euxesta</p><p>2. Wing: preapical crossband only slightly widened posteriorly, its posterior margin 1. 5–2. 5× as wide as anterior part in cell r1 (Figs. 1a–c)................... 3</p><p>– Wing: preapical crossband strongly widened posteriorly, its posterior margin 3. 5–6. 0× as wide as anterior part in cell r1 (Figs 1d–e)..................... 5</p><p>3. Wing: subapical and apical crossband not connected at anterior margin (Fig. 1a). Legs yellow............................................  E. latifasciata</p><p>– Wing: subapical and apical crossband at least narrowly connected at anterior margin (Figs 1b–c). Femora and tarsi mostly black.......................... 4</p><p>4. Wing with proximal margin of apical crossband clearly oblique, ending in apical part of cell m 1; preapical hyaline interspace strongly widened posteriorly (Fig. 1b)..........................................  E. leucomelas</p><p>– Wing with proximal margin of apical crossband concave and curved proximally posteriorly, ending at middle of cell m 1, preapical hyaline interspace lenticular (Fig. 1c)......................................................... 6</p><p>5. Wing with subapical crossband narrow, 0. 6–0. 9× as wide as preapical hyaline interspace measured along vein R 4+5; subapical crossband strongly narrowed to anterior margin, 0. 5–0. 7× as wide as preapical hyaline interspace measured along vein R 2+3 (Fig. 1e).........................................  E. sororcula</p><p>– Wing with subapical crossband wider, 1. 3–1. 9× as wide as preapical hyaline interspace measured along vein R 4+5; subapical crossband moderately narrowed to anterior margin, 1. 0–1. 5× as wide as preapical hyaline interspace measured along vein R 2+3 (Fig. 1f).........................  E. obliquestriata (=  E. mazorca)</p><p>6. Abdominal syntergite 1+2 dirty yellow to brownish-yellow medially................................................................  E. abdominalis</p><p>– Abdominal syntergite 1+2 entirely black......................  E. wettsteini</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CC87B4FFFBFFB3FE0FFC0FC562FE75	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Korneyev, Severyn V.;Hauser, Martin;Kameneva, Elena P.;Gaimari, Stephen D.	Korneyev, Severyn V., Hauser, Martin, Kameneva, Elena P., Gaimari, Stephen D. (2022): A key to species of the Euxesta sororcula species group (Diptera: Ulidiidae: Lipsanini), with new synonymy and a new record from the U. S. A. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 98 (2): 150-162, DOI: 10.3956/2022-98.2.150, URL: https://doi.org/10.3956/2022-98.2.150
