Cephalia myrmecoides Loew, 1860 (fig. 6)

Valid name. Myrmecothea myrmecoides (Loew, 1860) (Ulidiidae).

Cephalia myrmecoides Loew, 1860: 24 (Washington, D.C.).

Myrmecothea myrmecoides: Hendel, 1910: 310, 1914: 16; Steyskal, 1961: 404; 1965: 646; Wallace, 2021: 9, 14, 69.

Material. Type. Holotype ♂: “Type / 13244 ”, “ Loew. / coll.” (MCZ). Non-type. USA: Maryland, Chevy Chase, 30.05.1964 2 ♂ (P. P. Babiy leg.) (MCZ); Virginia: “ DixieLndg //5.30 Va.”, coll. Hendel ”, 2 ♀ (NHMW) .

R e m a r k s: Hendel (1910) established a separate genus based on a single autapomorphy which differentiates it from Cephalia: i. e. anal lobe and alula absent; most other characters are similar to Cephalia rufipes . Should Cephalia be found to contain more than one species, Myrmecothea should be considered a derived terminal taxon rather than its sister taxon.