Messiasia dalcyana d’Andretta, 1951

Yamaguchi, Carolina & Lamas, Carlos José Einicker, 2009, A catalogue of the types of Asiloidea (Diptera) in the collection of the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (Part 1: Bombyliidae and Mydidae), Zootaxa 2146, pp. 35-52 : 47-48

Messiasia dalcyana d’Andretta, 1951 .

d’Andretta, 1951: 62-64 (original description); 15, figure 46 (head, in lateral view); 49, figure 160 (male terminalia, in lateral view); 53, figure 167 (left sclerite of 9th tergite of male genitalia, in dorsal view); 57, figure 173 (9th sternite of male genitalia, in ventral view); and 61, figure 179 (aedeagus, in lateral view).

Type locality: Restinga da Marambaia, Guanabara (actually Rio de Janeiro city), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Holotype male with labels: (1) printed on white paper: “Restinga de | Marambaia | S. Lopes 2 – XI – 936 [1936]”; (2) printed on red paper: “HOLOTIPO”; (3) printed on white paper: “20.234”; (4) handwritten on white paper: “ Messiasia ɗ | dalcyana | n.sp. | d’Andretta. 1951 ”.

Preservation: Pinned; genitalia mounted on slides; Missing parts: none.

Paratype male with labels: (1) printed with handwritten inscriptions on white paper: “ Sernambitiba [Sernambetiba] | Rio de Janeiro, D.F [Distrito Federal], | 29. X. 1967 ”; (2) printed on red paper: “PARATIPO”; (3) printed on white paper: “20.235”; (4) handwritten on white paper: “ Messiasia ɗ | dalcyana | n.sp. | d’Andretta. 1951 ”.

Preservation: Pinned; specimen intact with undissected terminalia.