Stilobezzia (Eukraiohelea) proxima Cazorla & Felippe-Bauer

Da Silva, Irene M., Ferreira-Keppler, Ruth L. & Cazorla, Carla G., 2023, Stilobezzia Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the Brazilian Amazon: three new species, redescription of S. (Stilobezzia) maculata Lane and new records, Zootaxa 5249 (4), pp. 485-499 : 494

Stilobezzia (Eukraiohelea) proxima Cazorla & Felippe-Bauer

( Figs. 44–45 )

Stilobezzia (Eukraiohelea) proxima Cazorla & Felippe-Bauer in: Cazorla et al. 2017: 562 (male, female, Brazil); Borkent & Dominiak 2020: 177 (in Online World Catalog); Santarém & Felippe-Bauer 2022: 19 (Brazilian Catalog; distribution).

Type. Holotype male, labeled: “ Stilobezzia (Eukraiohelea) proxima Cazorla & Felippe-Bauer , BRAZIL, Rio de Janeiro, Casimiro de Abreu, Union Biological Reserve (22°25′35″ S; 42°02′04″ W), 07.xi–13.xii.2013, “Biota Diptera Fluminense ” team col., Malaise trap ”, ( CCER) . Allotype female; paratypes: 1 male, same data as holotype ( CCER), 1 male, 1 female same data except 25.viii–26.xi.2013 ”, ( CCER) .

Material examined. BRAZIL, Amazonas , Manaus, Campina Biological Reserve, 02º36′19″ S – 60º02′11″ W, Malaise trap, 04–18.ix.2018, I.M. Da Silva and R.L. Ferreira-Keppler, 1 male ; same data except 04–18.x.2018, 4 females .

Comments. This Neotropical species was described by Cazorla & Felippe-Bauer (2017), and its type locality is in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We provide the first record of this species from the state of Amazonas , that was collected in the Campina Biological Reserve, in the rural region of Manaus .

Figures

FIGURES 44–49. Habitus. 44. S. (E.) proxima, male; 45. S. (E.) proxima, female; 46. S. (E.) quasielegantula, male. 47. S. (S.) chaconi, female; 48. S. (S.) glauca, male; 49. S. (S.) glauca, female.