Cuterebrella praegrandis, (Austen, 1933: 706)

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 : 233-234

praegrandis ( Austen, 1933: 706)

! HOLOTYPE ♂ ( Figure 4 )

Data labels: (1) “NOT HOLOTYPE ” [handwritten on red paper, after this study, on the side facing up] “HOLOTYPE” [printed on red paper, on the side facing down] | “ Cuterebrella | praegrandis | (Austen)” [handwritten on red paper, on the side facing down] (2) “AGT 1961” [printed] (3) [slide-mounted terminalia] (4) “ MZ001592 ” [printed on white paper].

Remarks: Described from a type series of two female specimens (holotype and paratype); material in MZUSP comprised of a male specimen labeled as holotype but not part of the original type material, which was given as “ Holotype ♀ from [ Peru:] Iquitos … One ♀ paratype, from Mishuyacu” ( Austen 1933: 707). This specimen is a male adult missing right hindtarsus, and with a foreign bot fly leg appearing to be stuck with left midfemur and unattached to the thorax. The Cuterebra praegrandis Austen holotype [BMNH(E)249608] is a female specimen deposited at the Natural History Museum (London), while the female paratype [USNMENT 01492826] is housed at the Smithsonian Institution (Washington D.C.). The present specimen was illustrated by Guimarães (1984) and used for describing the male of this species, however the specimen has no data on locality and collector, and do not belong to the type series. Although the holotype label is incorrectly pinned to this specimen, it may have been used to indicate that this specimen was compared with those of the type series or that it was collected in the type locality. The red label was reattached after being turned upside down, and the words ‘NOT HOLOTYPE’ was handwritten on the side facing up.

Nomenclatural status: Valid as Cuterebra praegrandis ( Austen, 1933) .

Figures

FIGURE 4. Cuterebrella praegrandis (Austen, 1933),!holotype ♂ habitus [non-type]: A. Dorsal view, B. Lateral view, C. Associated labels and slide-mounted terminalia; scale bars: 5 mm.