Acrosticta scrobiculata Loew, 1868: 293

Freitas, Devair dos Santos, Olivier, Renan da Silva & Mello, Ramon Luciano, 2025, New records of Ulidiidae (Diptera: Tephritoidea) from state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, EntomoBrasilis (e 1098) 18, pp. 1-9 : 3

* Acrosticta scrobiculata Loew, 1868: 293 .

Type locality: Brazil. Distribution: Brazil (Mato Grosso do Sul), El Salvador, Guyana, Mexico, Peru, West indies ( Figure 6 ).

Studied material: two females, 17-21.ix.2018 [ ZUFMS-DIP01372 , 1373 ] ; two females, 16-18.x.2018 [ ZUFMS-DIP01375 , 1376 ] ; one female, 18-20.x.2018 [ ZUFMS-DIP01374 ] ; one male, and three females, 26-28.xi.2018 [ ZUFMS-DIP01377-1380 ] ; two females, 22-24.xii.2018 [ ZUFMS-DIP01447 , 1496 ]; one female, 26-28.i.2019 [ ZUFMS-DIP01367 ] .

Remarks: Acrosticta is a genus actually composed by 15 species distributed from USA to Argentina ( Steyskal 1965, 1968, Kameneva & Korneyev 2022). The Brazilian fauna is represented by two species ( Mello 2024a).

Figures

Figures 6-16. Specimen from the sampled species in habitus, lateral view. Figure 6: Acrosticta scrobiculata Loew, 1868. Figure 7: Euxesta eluta Loew,1868. Figure 8: Euxesta sororcula (Wiedemann, 1830). Figure 9: Notogramma cimiciforme Loew, 1868. Figure 10: Paragorgopis euryale Kameneva, 2024. Figure 11: Plagiocephalus lobularis Wiedemann, 1830.