Abstract
Dodge published some important papers on the Neotropical fauna of Sarcophagidae and proposed a considerable number of new taxa, but many of his illustrations of male terminalia are poor in details and do not allow a reliable segregation of closely related species. In this work, five species of Dexosarcophaga Townsend, 1917 described by Dodge are revised: D. itaqua Dodge, 1966; D. lopesi Dodge, 1968; D. varenna (Dodge, 1968) and D. currani Dodge, 1968 are recognised as valid species, while D. quecetuba Dodge, 1966 is proposed as a junior synonym of D. transita Townsend, 1917, SYN.N. and D. varenna as a senior synonym of D. dominicensis Lopes, 1973, SYN.N.References
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