Sepedon macropus, (Walker), 1849: 1078

macropus (Walker), 1849: 1078 View in CoL

( Sepedon ) [ Steyskal 1973: 145]

HT: ♂ Jamaica. NHMUK, unnumbered

DIST: COLOMBIA. COSTA RICA (Alajuela: Upala; Guanacaste: Cañas; Heredia: Santo Domingo). CUBA. ECUADOR (Guayas:Boliche; Pichincha:Santo Domingo). GUATEMALA. HONDURAS. JAMAICA. MEXICO (Chiapas; Nayarit: San Blas; Sinaloa: Mazatlán; Tabasco: Cárdenas; Tamaulipas: Llera; Veracruz: Vega de Alatorre). NICARAGUA. PANAMA ( Colón: Gamboa ). PERU. PUERTO RICO. TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO (Trinidad: Mayaro-Rio Claro: Kernaham; Tobago: Pembroke). Also UNITED STATES (Hawaii (introduced); Texas: Brownsville, Mission, Val Verde). [Introduced also into THAILAND]. Map: Neff & Berg 1966

FIGS: Malloch 1933 (antenna), Steyskal 1951 (♂ hind femur and tibia), Marinoni & Mathis 2000 (antenna, ♂ terminalia, ♂ genitalia; spermatheca), Knutson & Vala 2011 (wing), this paper (habitus, dorsal head, hind femur)

BIOL: Chock et al. 1961 (biological control), Neff & Berg 1966. BG: 11; PG: 6

HOSTS/PREY OF LARVAE: Austropeplea ollula , Biomphalaria glabrata , Galba humilis , Helisoma trivolvis , Oxyloma retusa , Physa sp. , P. compacta , Stagnicola palustris , and (most unusual for an aquatic predator) the slug Deroceras laeve

IMMATS: Neff & Berg 1966 (E, L1–L3, P)

CHR: Boyes et al. 1969 (karyotype)

MOL_DAT: Y nigriventris Wulp, 1897: 359 ( Sepedon ) [ Malloch 1914: 323]

HT: ♀ Mexico, Veracruz, H.H. Smith. NHMUK, unnumbered