Syneches jauensis Ale-Rocha & Vieira

Menezes, Isis Sá & Ale-Rocha, Rosaly, 2016, Revision of the Amazonian species of Syneches Walker (Diptera, Hybotidae, Hybotinae), Zootaxa 4103 (5), pp. 401-442 : 420

Syneches jauensis Ale-Rocha & Vieira

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Syneches jauensis Ale-Rocha & Vieira, 2008: 116 , figs 8–14, 37.

Diagnosis. Medium size (about 4.0 mm length). Antenna brown, except basal 1/4 of postpedicel grayish. Thorax dark brown to black, with yellow dot on postpronotal lobe and postalar callus; pleura brown to dark brown; scutum high and rounded; prosternum narrow. Abdomen slender and dark brown. Legs elongate and slender; fore leg with coxa, trochanter and femur dark yellow, tibia and tarsus brown; mid leg dark yellow, except tarsomeres 3–5 light brown; hind leg with coxa, trochanter and femur yellow, tibia and tarsus brown; hind tibia clavate and hind tarsomere 1 enlarged. Wing sub-hyaline with elongate brown pterostigma filling up apex of cell r1.

Examined material. HOLOTYPE ♂ ( INPA): BRASIL, Amazonas, [Novo Airão], P[arque] N[acional do] Jaú, Ig[arapé] do Gerlei, 01°57′00″S–61°49′00″W, 23–28.viii.1995 / Arm[adilha] Malaise, J. A. Rafael & Vidal / Holótipo, Syneches jauensis Ale-Rocha & Vieira [red label]. PARATYPES. idem (2 ♀, INPA).

Geographical distribution. Brazil (Amazonas) ( Fig. 119 ).

Comments. This species is very similar to S. tomentosus Smith, 1962 , from Southeast of Brazil, but it can be distinguished from the latter by the shorter pterostigma and features of the male terminalia ( Ale-Rocha & Vieira 2008).

Figures

FIGURE 119. Geographical distribution of S. curvipes, S. dichrous, S. equatoriensis, S. exilis, S. fuscescens and S. jauensis in Amazon.