Messiasia painteri Wilcox & Papavero, 1975. Wilcox & Papavero, 1975: 29 – 30 (original description); 30, figures 10 – 12 (male genitalia). Type locality: Cuernavaca (19 km E), Morelos, Mexico. Holotype male with labels: (1) printed with handwritten inscriptions on white paper: “ MEXICO: 12 ml E | Cuernavaca, Mor [Morelos] | Lobo Canyon; 4, 0 0 0 | VI – 14 – 19 65 ”; (2) printed on white paper: “R. H. Painter | col.”; (3) printed on red paper: “HOLOTIPO”; (4) printed with handwritten inscriptions on white paper: “ Messiasia | painteri | nsp. ɗ | det. J. Wilcox”; (5) handwritten with red font on white paper: “RHP”. Preservation: Pinned; genitalia on plastic vial pinned with the specimen; Missing parts: left tarsus of leg III. Paratype female with labels: (1) printed on white paper: “ MEXICO Guerrero | 20 m 1. E. Acapulco | 12 August 1962 | U. Kans. Mex. Experd.”; (2) printed on red paper: “PARATIPO”; (3) printed with handwritten inscriptions on white paper: “ Messiasia | painteri nsp Ψ | det. J. Wilcox”. Preservation: Pinned; Missing parts: both antennae.

Published as part of 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), pp. 35-52 in Zootaxa 2146 on page 48, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.163509