Messiasia carrerai 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

Messiasia carrerai d’Andretta, 1951 .

d’Andretta, 1951: 55 (original description); 7, figures 16 (head), 21 (labrum-hypopharynx, in dorsal view); 15, figure 40 (head, in lateral view); 27, figures 83 (posterior leg), 84 (anterior face of the femur), 85 (apex of posterior tibia); 49, figure161 (male genitalia, in lateral view); 53, figure 169 (left sclerite of 9th tergite of male genitalia, in dorsal view); 57, figure 175 (9th sternite of male genitalia, in ventral view); and 61, figure 183 (aedeagus, in lateral view).

Type locality: Imbituba, Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Allotype female with labels: (1) printed on white paper: Imbituba | Nov. Dez, 36 [1936] | Dr. M. Leitão”; (2) printed on red paper: “ALOTIPO”; (3) printed on white paper: “20.240”; (4) handwritten on white paper: “ Messiasia | carrerai | n. sp. | d’Andretta, 1951 ”.

Preservation: Pinned; specimen intact with undissected terminalia.

Paratype male with labels: (1) printed on white paper: “Imbituba | Nov. Dez, 36 [1936] | Dr. M. Leitão”; (2) printed on red paper: “PARATIPO”; (3) printed on white paper: “20.241”; (4) handwritten on white paper: “ Messiasia ɗ | carrerai n. sp. | d’Andretta. 1951 ”.

Preservation: Pinned; left wing mounted on slides and right wing glued at the first label; Missing parts: right tarsus of leg II and III.

Paratype male with labels: (1) printed on white paper: “Imbituba | Nov. Dez, 36 [1936] | Dr. M. Leitão”; (2) printed on pink paper: “PARATIPO”; (3) printed on white paper: “20.242”; (4) handwritten on white paper: “ Messiasia ɗ | carrerai n. sp. | d’Andretta. 1951 ”.

Preservation: Pinned; both antennae glued at the first label, genitalia, head and right leg III mounted on slides; Missing parts: none.