brevipes (Fabricius), 1805: 272 (Dacus). Type locality: “South America ”. HT sex? (ZMUC). Distr.: Mexico, Trinidad, Guyana, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay. Refs.: Wiedemann, 1830: 513 (diag. as Dacus brevipes); Macquart, 1835: 454 (diag.); Walker, 1849: 1071 (list); D’Orbigny, 1861: 552 (cit., disc.); Hendel, 1914a: 103–105 (key, redescr.); 1914b: 61 (cit., syn. list); Curran, 1934: 424 (spp. list from Kartabo); Shewell, 1962: 194 (disc., figs. 1–3, 13); Meier et al., 2005: website (collection inventory, HT); Whittington, 2010: 904 (fig. 6, head).

splendens (Macquart), 1846: 337 (plate 18, fig. 8, 8a, head, wing) ( Herina). HT F (OUMNH). Type locality: “ Colombia ”. Syn. by Hendel, 1914a: 104.

angusta (Walker), 1852: 374 ( Ortalis). HT M (BMNH, according to Sistema Dipterorum site). Type locality: " Brazil ". Syn. by Hendel, 1914a: 104.