Amazunculus, Rafael, 1986

Marques, Dayse W. A., Rafael, José A. & Pollet, Marc, 2019, First records of Pipunculidae (Diptera) from French Guiana, with the description of a new species, Zoosystema 41 (13), pp. 249-258 : 254

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a13
publication LSID	urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:61BCBF12-025B-4BAB-AE12-B0B48C7402DD
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3728422
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FF3AC11F-FFBA-FF92-A830-6B28FE10FD55
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Amazunculus
status

Treatment

Amazunculus View in CoL View at ENA sp.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Guyane. 1 ♀, Mitaraka, different sites nr base camp and along trails, tropical moist forest (different sites), 1-6.III.2015, SLAM, leg. Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier, sample code: MITARAKA/195, MNHN .

REMARKS

Amazunculus specimens can only be morphologically identified to species level when male specimens are present in the samples. They are not common and few species are known, mainly from the Amazon Basin. The genus is recorded from French Guiana for the first time.