......Anaides Westwood, 1845

Distribution: Central America, South America, and the West Indies. Its distribution includes the following countries: Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras,  Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Dominican Republic (fossil).  Anaides species are primarily found in low- and mid-elevation tropical forests between 20° N and 20° S latitudes, and they have been collected from near sea level to 4,000 m altitude.

Natural history: Species of Anaides are attracted to carrion and dung, which suggests these are their primary food sources. Specimens of Anaides species are attracted to light. Nothing is known about the biology of the larva of Anaides laticollis Harold (the only described larva of this genus).