Stilobezzia (Stilobezzia) rabelloi Lane, 1947

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Stilobezzia (Stilobezzia) rabelloi Lane

Stilobezzia rabelloi Lane, 1947: 203 . Brazil. (female, male; figs. male genitalia, wing).

Stilobezzia (Stilobezzia) rabelloi: Wirth 1953: 81 (female, male; fig. male genitalia; Florida, Louisiana, Honduras, Surinam) ; Lane & Forattini 1958: 220 (Panama); Lane & Forattini 1961: 85 (in key to Neotropical Stilobezzia ); Wirth 1965: 134 (in Nearctic catalog north of Mexico; distribution); Wirth 1974: 46 (in New World catalog south of the USA; distribution); Wirth & Grogan 1981: 90 (female, male diagnoses; figs; distribution); Spinelli 1983: 410 ( Argentina) ; Wilkening et al. 1985: 526 (Florida records); Spinelli & Wirth 1993: 51 (in list of Stilobezzia in Argentina; distribution); Borkent & Wirth 1997: 112 (in World catalog); Borkent & Spinelli 2000: 54 (in New World catalog south of the USA; distribution); Borkent & Craig 2001: 656 (pupa; figs.; biology; habitat); Borkent & Spinelli 2007: 30 (in Neotropical catalog; distribution); Borkent & Grogan 2009: 22 (in Nearctic catalog north of Mexico ; distribution); Grogan et al. 2010: 41 (new Florida records); Borkent 2014: 225 (reference to pupae); Torreias et al. 2014: 119 (immatures; record from Amazonia, Brazil) ; Borkent 2016: 143 (in online World catalog); Cazorla 2016: 189 (new Argentina record).

Discussion. This species inhabits the New World in the USA (Maryland south to Louisiana and Florida), south to Argentina. We provide the first records from Mexico from the states of Jalisco and Tabasco.

Material Examined. MEXICO, Jalisco, Estación de Biología Chamela , Cuenca 4A, Trampa Malaise (5A), 3–8-jun-1993, A. Rodríguez-Palafox, 1 male . Tabasco, Villahermosa , Centro, dentro del Zoológico, 23-Dic-2008 al 8-enero-2009, Trampa Malaise, A. Villanueva, 1 male . New Mexico Records.