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Male. Body black with bright blue reflections. Measurements, body 
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; wing 4.9–5.0 mm. 
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: Black, mostly black vestiture. Face narrow with parallel sides, width 1/5–1/6 as wide as head, dorsal 2/3 flat, scarcely visible in lateral view, yellowish tomentose with sparse, moderately long, black setae; lower 1/3 abruptly produced, visibly laterally, white tomentose with several long, black, seta-like bristles and numerous white setae. Palpus minute. Proboscis unusually short, about as long as flagellum, white setose ventrally. Flagellum (
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) elongate, as long as pedicel and scape combined, oval, apex acute, with preapical spine; surface black, without obvious delineated sensory area; pedicel oval, wider and longer than scape. Frons and vertex brown or black tomentose, may appear brownish-yellow at some angles, wide median brownish-yellow tomentose line extending from ocellar tubercle posteriorly onto occiput. Ocellar tubercle with 2 long diverging bristles, length subequal to antennae. Occiput mostly brown or black tomentose with several short black postocular bristles and sparse black setae dorsally, margins narrowly grayish tomentose with whitish setae.
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: Slightly brownish. Discal and m 
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cells slightly offset apically. Squama pale yellow, fringe sparse, white.
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: Shining black, apices of femora and base of tibiae narrowly yellowish-brown. Coxae gray tomentose, vestiture whitish. Bristles black, mostly unusually long and thin. Femora and tibiae with yellowish setae ventrally except sparse exceptionally long, black setae; hind femur and tibia ventrally and middle tibia lateroapically with abundant setae of uniform length. Tarsi black, bristles unusually long and black, setae brownish-yellow or yellow except white on apical 4 tarsomeres ventrally.
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: 
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parallel with segment 2 slightly wider than long and only slightly narrower than segment 5; only 7 tergites present. Black with blue reflections dorsally and minute punctuations, narrow apical margins of segments 2–4 grayish tomentose; vestiture pale, mostly short, yellowish, tergites 1–3 laterally and sternite 1 with 2–5 long bristles. Sternites thinly brownish-gray tomentose.
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. Epandrium undivided, ventral. Aedeagus trifid apically. Gonocoxa elongate, pointed apically. Hypandrium dorsal.
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Female. Measurements, body 
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Types. 
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km 1–3 along trail / 
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Sierra 
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, 
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<emphasis id="5FC4EA844F6EFF9F6653D7C4FEBFAE24" bold="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Independencia prov</emphasis>
.
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/ 
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, 
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, 
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, 
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(day) (
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, 
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.
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Distribution. Captured at intermediate to high elevations (
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) during June and July in 
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and 
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provinces.
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<paragraph id="6D0F36964F6EFF9F6318D46AFE4CAE85" blockId="42.[264,1323,284,1902]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">
Etymology. Latin 
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<emphasis id="5FC4EA844F6EFF9F6030D46BFD81AEAD" box="[528,638,1639,1664]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">caerulum</emphasis>
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for blue, referring to the bright blue color of the scutum and scutellum.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="6D0F36964F6EFF9F6318D4B9FCD2AF43" blockId="42.[264,1323,284,1902]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">
Remarks. 
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<emphasis id="5FC4EA844F6EFF9F6390D4BAFD3CAEE2" box="[432,707,1718,1743]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Eumecosoma caerulum</emphasis>
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, a member of the 
<emphasis id="5FC4EA844F6EFF9F61BED4BAFBDAAEE2" box="[926,1061,1718,1743]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">pleuriticum</emphasis>
species group (
<bibRefCitation id="09214B674F6EFF9F66FFD4B9FDE3AEDA" author="Fisher, E. M. &amp; Hespenheide, H." pageId="42" pageNumber="43" pagination="610 - 613" refId="ref41860" refString="Fisher, E. M. &amp; Hespenheide, H. (1992) Taxonomy and biology of Central American robber flies with an illustrated key to the genera (Diptera: Asilidae). In Quintero Arias, D. and Aiello, A. (editors). Insects of Panama and Meso-America. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, Tokyo. 610 - 613 pp." type="book chapter" year="1992">Fisher and Hespenheide 1992</bibRefCitation>
), is the first species of this genus reported in the West Indies. It runs to 
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<emphasis id="5FC4EA844F6EFF9F6355D509FDC8AF33" box="[373,567,1797,1822]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">E. metallescens</emphasis>
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from 
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in 
<bibRefCitation id="09214B674F6EFF9F61EFD508FB6EAF33" author="Curran, C. H." box="[975,1169,1796,1822]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" refId="ref41263" refString="Curran, C. H. (1930) New American Asilidae (Diptera). American Museum Novitates, 425,1 - 21, 3 figs." type="book" year="1930">Curran's (1930)</bibRefCitation>
key but is distinguished from congeners by the color of the facial tomentum in the female and male antenna (
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) and terminalia (
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).
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