Cuterebra almeidai, Guimaraes & Carrera, 1941: 2

Letana, Socrates D., Pape, Thomas & Lamas, Carlos José Einicker, 2025, South American bot fly types (Diptera: Oestridae) in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, Zootaxa 5653 (2), pp. 229-245 : 232

almeidai Guimarães & Carrera, 1941: 2

HOLOTYPE ♀ ( Figure 2 )

Data labels: (1) “ Cach. Taurino | Amazonas | Almeida leg | 4. X. 36” [handwritten] (2) “ HOLOTIPO ” [typewritten] (3) “ Cuterebra | ( Baucuterebra ) | almeidai | Guim. & Corr., 1941” [handwritten] (4) “ MZ001588 ” [typewritten; for deaccessioning and repatriation].

Remarks: Described from a single female specimen; material comprised of female adult specimen missing aristae, right foretibia, left midtarsus and left hind tarsus, and with broken left wing. Housed at the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro. Originally indicated in the literature, “Sob no. 10.900” collected from “Cachoeira Taurino, Amazonas. Romualdo Ferreira D’Almeida, leg em 4-X-1936.” This specimen was examined and used for revision by Guimarães & Papavero (1999: 213). Guimarães & Carrera (1941) placed this species in the subgenus Baucuterebra , subsequently listed in the genus Metacuterebra by Papavero & Guimarães (2009).

Nomenclatural status: Valid as Cuterebra almeidai Guimarães & Carrera, 1941 .

Figures

FIGURE 2. Cuterebra (Baucuterebra) almeidai Guimarães & Carrera, 1941, holotype ♀ habitus: A. Dorsal view (excluding wings), B. Lateral aspect (anterior half of habitus), C. Associated labels; scale bars: 2 mm.