flavipes Williston, 1896: 403, (Ilythea).

Type locality, West Indies, St. Vincent. LT M (des. by Mathis & Edmiston, 1991: 834) (BMNH).

Distr.: Afrotropical: Zaire. Nearctic: Bermuda, Canada (Ontario), United States (Iowa, Florida, Ohio, Texas, Virginia). Neotropical: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico (Sinaloa, Sonora, Tampico), Panama, West Indies (Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, St. Vincent). Refs.: Cresson, 1943b: 14 (generic combination, review); Scheiring & Connell, 1979: 609 –612 (egg); Hollmann-Schirrmacher, 1998: 26 –29 (revision).