Phaenobezzia fulvithorax (Malloch)

Probezzia fulvithorax Malloch, 1915: 354 (male, female; USA, Illinois).

Phaenobezzia fulvithorax (Malloch): Wirth & Grogan 1982: 185 (redescription; combination; distribution); Spinelli & Wirth 1986: 234 (Mexico record); Borkent & Wirth 1997: 135 (world catalog); Borkent & Spinelli 2000: 65 (new world catalog south of USA); Borkent & Dominiak 2020: 213 (world catalog).

Diagnosis. The only species of Phaenobezzia with the following combination of characters: eyes broadly separated by the diameter of 5–6 ommatidia; antenna dark brown, flagellomere 13 bluntly rounded, not tapered distally; legs yellowish brown, hind femur and tibia with dark apices; ventral palisade setae sparse on tarsomere 1 of mid leg, dense on tarsomeres 1–2 on hind leg, tarsomeres 5 on all legs with 4 pairs of stout, sharp-pointed ventral spines. Male gonostylus about half as long as the gonocoxite.

Material examined. MEXICO, Guerrero, Cocula, Apipilulco, sept-1995, light trap, 1 female CAIM [CAIM / Crt/lam-00265] . Morelos, San Rafael Vicente Aranda, 6-may-1983, light trap, 10 females, 7 males CAIM [CAIM / Crt/lam−00267−00284]. New records from Guerrero and Morelos.

Distribution. British Columbia and Quebec (Canada), in USA from Washington, east to Michigan, south to California, east to Texas and Arkansas, Mexico (Baja California, Nuevo Leon, Morelos, Guerrero).

Remarks. This species has a wide Nearctic distribution, included in Baja California, Mexico (Wirth & Grogan 1982). Spinelli & Wirth (1986) recorded this species from Nuevo Leon. We herein include new records from the Neotropical region of Mexico (Guerrero, Morelos).