decipiens Loew, 1878: 195 .

Type locality, United States, “Texas”. ST M (MCZ).

Distr.: Nearctic: Bermuda, United States (Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Louisiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia). Neotropical: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia (La Paz), Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico (Jalisco, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Veracruz), Panama, Paraguay, Trinidad, Venezuela, West Indies (Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grand Cayman, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Virgin Islands). Refs.: Osten Sacken, 1878: 201 (Nearctic catalog); Becker, 1896: 270 (list, Texas); Coquillett, 1900b: 259 (list, Puerto Rico); Aldrich, 1905: 624 (Nearctic catalog); Jones, 1906: 178 –179 (key, catalog); Thaxter, 1917: 672 –675 (parasites: Stigmatomyces rostratus Thaxter, S. paralimnae Thaxter); 1931: 145 –146 (parasite: S. gracilior Thaxter); Wirth & Stone, 1956: 470 (list, California).