illucens (Linnaeus), 1758: 589 (Musca). Type locality: “South America ”. Distr.— Nearctic: USA (Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Califomia, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia) Neotropical: Argentina, Belize, Brazil (Amazonas, Bahia, Distrito Federal, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Pará, Paraná, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Roraima, Santa Catarina, São Paulo), British Virgin Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico (Chiapas, Chihuahua, Jalisco, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatán), Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad, Venezuela, Uruguay. Palaearctic: Albania, Canary Islands, Croatia, France, Italy, Japan, Malta, Spain, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. Afrotropical: Cameroun, Congo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zaire, Zambia. Oriental: India, Indonesia (lava, Sulawesi), Japan (Ryukyu Islands), Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam. Australian: Australia (Queensland, Westem Australia), Belau, Bonin Islands, French Polynesia (Austral Islands, Society Islands), Guam, Hawaiian Islands, Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Kiribati (Gilbert Island), Marshall Islands, Micronesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Northem Marianas, Papua New Guinea (Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea), Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Westem Samoa. ST sex? [NRS]. Refs.— Williston, 1888: 245; Lindner, 1928b: 239; Lindner, 1929: 260; Lindner, 1933c: 330; Carrera & Lane, 1945: 127 (checklist); James, 1949: 3; Iide & Mileti, 1976: 924 –933 (redescription); Rafael, 1991: 331 (checklist); Woodley, 2001: 182 (cat.).

Musca leucopa Linnaeus, 1767: 983 . Type locality: “ America ”. ST 1 sex? [LSL]. Ref.— Woodley, 2001: 182 (cat.).

Hermetia rufiventris Fabricius, 1805: 63 . Type locality: “ America meridionali”. ST 2 F [UZMC]. Ref.— Woodley, 2001: 182 (cat.).

Hermetia pellucens Macquart, 1834: explication des planches 4: Planche V, Fig. 11, error. Ref.— Woodley, 2001: 182 (cat.).

Hermetia nigrifacies Bigot, 1879a: 200 . Type locality: “ Mexico ”. LT M [BMNH]. Refs.— McFadden, 1972b: 257; Woodley, 2001: 182 (cat.).

Hermetia mucens Riley & Howard, 1889: 353, error. Ref.— Woodley, 2001: 182 (cat.).

Hermetia illucens var. nigritibia Enderlein, 1914c: 9 . Type locality: Brazil, Santa Catarina. HT sex? [PAN]. Ref.— Woodley, 2001: 182 (cat.).

Hermetia illuscens Copello, 1926: 23, error. Ref.— Woodley, 2001: 182 (cat.).