Fannia scalaris, Fabricius, 1794:332

De Carvalho, C. J. B., Pont, A. C., Couri, M. S. & Pamplona, D., 2003, A catalogue of the Fanniidae (Diptera) of the Neotropical Region, Zootaxa 219, pp. 1-32 : 18

scalaris Fabricius, 1794:332 (Musca) .

Lectotype male, ZMUC [des. Michelsen 1979:188]; paralectotype, ZMUC. Type­locality: "Hafniae" [= Copenhagen], Denmark. Distr.­ Brazil, Chile, Argentina; cosmopolitan, most common in temperate areas. Ref. Hennig 1955a:figs, 5, 11, 14, pl. 1, fig. 16; Hennig 1955c:81, pl. 4, fig. 67. Fannia scalaris ; Malloch 1934:203 ( Argentina, Chile); Séguy 1937:174 (cat.); Ortiz 1946:157 (cat.); James 1947:127 ( Chile, Argentina); Chillcott 1961:61 (N. America, not Mexico), figs 4, 4A (male genitalia), 222 (sternopleura), 233, 273; Pont 1972:6 (cat.); Albuquerque et al. 1981:10 ( scalaris ­group), 22 (key); Almeida et al. 1985:279–284 ( Brazil, synanthropy); Queiroz and Carvalho 1987:277 ( Brazil, larva III description, in solid domestic and domestic garbage dumps), figs 49–50 (larva III); Carvalho et al. 1993:15 (cat.); Guimarães and Papavero 1999:266 ( Brazil, carries eggs of Dermatobia ); Carvalho et al. 2002:108 (key), 112 ( Brazil, human habits).