Oricuterebra townsendi, Fonseca, 1941: 483

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 : 240-241

townsendi Fonseca, 1941: 483

HOLOTYPE ♂ ( Figures 12–13 )

Data labels: (1) “3745” [typewritten] (2) [terminalia in capsule with glycerine] (3) “HOLOTYPE | Oricuterebra [handwritten] | townsendi, Fonseca [handwritten] | det. S. D. Letana [printed] 2023 [handwritten]” (4) “ Holótipo ” [printed on red paper] (5) “ MZ053550 ” [printed on white paper] .

Puparium, pinned separately ( Figure 13 ).

Data labels: (1) “3745” (2) “ NEANOTYPE ” [handwritten] | “ Oricuterebra | townsendi, Fonseca ” [handwritten] | “det. S. D. Letana [printed] 2023 [handwritten]” (3) “ MZ 0053550 ” [printed on white paper].

Remarks: Described from a single male specimen; material in MZUSP comprised of a male adult specimen missing left midtarsus and a separately pinned puparium missing the operculum. Originally deposited at the Instituto Butantan; specimen reared from Brazilian gracile opossum, Gracilinanus microtarsus (Wagner) . From Fonseca (1941: 486): “... Descrição feita do holótipo ♂ No. 3745 de minha coleção, no Instituto Butantan, exemplar único obtido por cultura de três larvas encontradas em parasitismo sobre o menor dos Didelfídeos, Marmosa microtarsus microtarsus (Wagner) , capturado em Butantan, S. Paulo, a 16. V.40.” [“...Description of the holotype ♂ No. 3745 from my collection at the Instituto Butantan, a unique specimen obtained from the rearing of three larvae found parasitizing the smallest of the didelphids, Marmosa microtarsus microtarsus (Wagner) , captured in Butantan, São Paulo, on 16. V.40.”]. Placed in Metacuterebra by Papavero and Guimarães (2009).

Nomenclatural status: Valid as Cuterebra townsendi ( Fonseca, 1941) .

Figures

FIGURE 12. Oricuterebra townsendi Fonseca, 1941, holotype ♂ habitus: A. Dorsal view, B. Lateral view, C. Associated labels and terminalia vial; scale bars: 5 mm.

FIGURE 13. Oricuterebra townsendi Fonseca, 1941, puparium of holotype: A. Dorsal view, B. Lateral view; scale bars: 5 mm.