Tetanoceroides bisetosus, (Thomson), 1869: 570

Murphy, William L., Abercrombie, Jay, González, Christian R. & Knutson, Lloyd, 2023, Overview of the Sciomyzidae (Diptera: Sciomyzoidea) of the Americas south of the United States, Zootaxa 5345 (1), pp. 1-113 : 50

bisetosus (Thomson), 1869: 570

( Tetanocera ) [ Zuska & Berg 1974: 334]

HT: ♀ [ Uruguay] “ Montevideo.” NHRS, unnumbered [examined by Zuska & Berg 1974: 336]

DIST: ARGENTINA ( Buenos Aires; Chubut; Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires; La Plata; Río Negro ; Santa Cruz). CHILE ( Atacama; Aysén; Coquimbo; Los Lagos; Los Ríos; Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena; Metropolitana de Santiago). URUGUAY ( Montevideo). Map: Zuska & Berg 1974

FIGS: Zuska & Berg 1974 (habitus, ♂ terminalia, ♂ genitalia, color variation; ♀ anal plate), Marinoni & Mathis 2000 (antenna), this paper (habitus, antenna, pleura)

BIOL: Abercrombie 1970. BG: 11; PG: 1

HOSTS/PREY OF LARVAE: Biomphalaria glabrata , B. peregrina , Chilina fluctuosa , Galba humilis , Gyraulus parvus , Helisoma trivolvis , Lymnaea viator , Marisa cornuarietis , Physa peruviana , Physella gyrina , Pisidium sp. , Stagnicola elodes , and Tarebia granifera

IMMATS: Abercrombie 1970 (E, L1–L3, P)

CHR: Boyes et al. 1969 (karyotype)

MOL_DAT: Y

occidentalis Wulp, 1883: 48 , pl. 2, fig. 96 ( Ectinocera ) [ Malloch 1933: 318 (new combination), Zuska & Berg 1974: 334 (synonymy)]. The synonymy by Zuska & Berg (1974) “is based on its [ Ectinocera occidentalis ] description by Wulp (1883) and on [three] specimens identified and mentioned [as Ectinocera occidentalis ] by Malloch (1933),” all three of which they examined.

HT: ♂ “ Argentina (Weyenbergh)” (Destroyed? P.J. van Helsdingen, pers. comm. to LK, 14.I.1977); Zuska & Berg (1974) also noted that the type is probably lost: “…it is not in Brussels, London or Amsterdam museums.”