niger Williston, 1897: 3 .

Type locality, “ Grenada and Rio de Janeiro”. ST M/F (AMNH).

Distr.: Nearctic: United States (Texas). Neotropical: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico (Oaxaca), Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Trinidad, Venezuela, West Indies (Dominica, Grenada). Refs.: Bokerman, 1957: 231 –232 (host: egg cluster of frog Physalaemus cuvieri Fitzinger (Leptodactylidae); Wirth, 1958: 249 –250 (review); Lizarralde de Grosso, 1984: 72 (review).

Beckeriella niger; Lizarralde de Grosso, 1998: 49 (generic comb.). Refs.: Menin & Giaretta, 2003: 239 –243 (biology).