FAMILY EPHYDRIDAE Author Mathis, Wayne Neilsen Author Júnior, Francisco De Assis Rodrigues Author Couri, Márcia Souto text Zootaxa 2016 4122 1 752 770 journal article 38817 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.64 0a7a9f45-d197-47d0-9417-a99e10bc7b44 1175-5326 267319 904AB86A-CCF0-45BC-A4D0-558086C14503 niger Williston, 1897 : 3 . Type locality, “ Grenada and Rio de Janeiro”. ST M/F ( AMNH ). Distr.: Nearctic: United States (Texas). Neotropical: Argentina , Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Costa Rica , Ecuador , El Salvador , Guatemala , Mexico (Oaxaca), Nicaragua , Panama , Peru , Trinidad , Venezuela , West Indies ( Dominica , Grenada ). Refs.: Bokerman, 1957 : 231 –232 (host: egg cluster of frog Physalaemus cuvieri Fitzinger (Leptodactylidae); Wirth, 1958 : 249 –250 (review); Lizarralde de Grosso, 1984 : 72 (review). Beckeriella niger ; Lizarralde de Grosso, 1998 : 49 (generic comb.). Refs.: Menin & Giaretta, 2003 : 239 –243 (biology).