Syringogaster amazonensis Prado, 1969

Marshall, S. A., Buck, M., Skevington, J. H. & Grimaldi, D., 2009, A revision of the family Syringogastridae (Diptera: Diopsoidea), Zootaxa 1996 (1), pp. 1-80 : 18

Syringogaster amazonensis Prado

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Syringogaster amazonensis Prado, 1969: 12 .

This species remains known only from the type female collected in the state of Pará, Brazil and deposited in the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro. We have thus far been unable to examine the type, and Prado (1969) provided only a wing figure and a sketch of the head. The wing venation, with the fork of CuA basal to bm-cu, is more plesiomorphic than in any other known species of Syringogaster , and places S. amazonensis in the figurata -group. The species appears to be similar to S. atricalyx and can be separated from the latter by the characters provided in the key.

TYPE MATERIAL: Holotype ♀ (not examined): BRAZIL. Pará, Road Belém – Bragança km 100, H.S. Lopes, 13.vii.1965 ( FIOC, No. 13.380)