megacephala (Fabricius), 1794: 317 (Musca). Type locality: “ Guinea ”, (error =? “Ex. Ind. Or.” See Patton, 1925:179). ST? (UZMC). Distr.: Colombia (Antioquia (Copacabana; Gómez Plata; Itagui; Medellín; PNN Chiganza; Valle de Aburrá); Bolívar (Archipiélago de San Bernardo, Isla Múcura); Boyacá (Villa de Leiva, Vereda Centro); Caldas (Cañaveral, La Mula); Cundinamarca (Facatativá); La Guajira (Cerrejón Campamento Mushaisa); Sucre (San Onofre); Valle del Cauca (Cali); Vaupés), Argentina, Brazil, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Greater Antilles, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Peru. Refs.: Dear, 1985: 112 (rev.); Thompson & Pont, 1993: 95 (cat.); Barreto et al., 2002: 138; Pape et al., 2004: 203; Vélez & Wolff, 2008: 43; Amat, 2009: 697; Barrios & Wolff, 2011: 167; Ramírez-Mora et al., 2012: 30; Salazar-Ortega et al., 2012: 563; Kosmann et al., 2013: 76. Material examined. COLOMBIA: Antioquia: Copacabana, Barrio Villa Nueva, 1200m, 1F, vii.2004, A. Ruiz, entomological net (CEUA); Gómez Plata, Vereda La Clara, Hacienda Vegas de la Clara, 1000m, 1M, 16.vii.2003, Perez & M.C. Vélez, entomological net over a pig carcass (CEUA); Itagui, Quebrada Doña María, 1530m, 1M, 16.viii.2004, J. Arias, entomological net (CEUA); Medellín, Universidad de Antioquia, Facultad de Vetezoo, 1480m, 1F, 20.xi.2002, M.C. Vélez, entomological net over a pig carcass (CEUA); same information except:, 1M, 4F, 06.vii.2002, G. Zapata, entomological net over a rabbit carcass (CEUA); Bolívar: Islas de San Bernardo, Tintipán, 0m, 3M, 1F, 05.i.2003, Wolff & Duque, entomological net over a pig carcass (CEUA); same information except: 1M, xii.2002, Wolff & Duque; 1M, 04.i.2003, reared in the laboratory (CEUA); Sucre: San Onofre, Reserva Sanguaré, 0m, 1M, 01.v.2003, Grupo Entomologia, Vsr. trap baited with fish (CEUA).

Published as part of Wolff, Marta & Kosmann, Cecilia, 2016, FAMILIES CALLIPHORIDAE AND MESEMBRINELLIDAE, pp. 856-875 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 860, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.72, http://zenodo.org/record/263487